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New York — Poster Auctions International’s second sale of the year finished at $1,300,000 in sales. Auction LXXVIII on June 23 elicited enthusiasm for uncommon and little-known works by masters of Art Deco and Art Nouveau.
A busy week coming up in the auction rooms: here's what I'm keeping an eye on:
Brooklyn-based Honey & Wax booksellers announced earlier this week that Rebecca Romney is leaving the shop to open a rare book venture in Washington D.C. with ABAA bookseller Brian Cassidy.
Our Bright Young Booksellers series continues today with Rachel Furnari, proprietor of Graph Books in Vermont:
How did you get started in rare books?
In the fall of 2013 I got a phone call from Arthur Fournier. He was working for F.A. Bernett Books in Boston and reminded me how often I’d told him…
Chicago — Potter and Potter's early summer auction, featuring the second installment of rarities from the Jim Rawlins collection, offered nonstop surprises and excitement from start to finish. After the hammer fell for the last time, 58 lots realized between $1,000-5,000; 7 lots realized between $5…
Five years ago, Joseph Makkos made a splash with an essay in the Atlantic about how he acquired a sizable collection of vintage New Orleans newspapers for free through a Craigslist ad. He created a company called NOLA DNA, arranged for storage of the collection (kept by the previous owner in 30,000…
New York — The Pride Sale at Swann Galleries on Thursday, June 20 offered a curated selection of LGBTQ+ art, photography, literature, autographs and ephemera from the past 200 years, with many first-time appearances on the market. The sale was a resounding success with 75% of the lots finding…
The endowment of the ILAB Breslauer Prize for Bibliography has recently been funded with a further generous donation of $25,000 from the B.H. Breslauer Foundation of New York — Submissions are currently being accepted for the 2022 prizes.
The International League of Antiquarian Booksellers can now…
Talbot Publishing is pleased to announce the publication of an important new title:
Best Men of the Bar The Early Years of the American Bar Association 1878-1928
JOHN AUSTIN MATZKO
Introduction by Kellen R. Funk
xxxvi, 333 pp. ISBN 978-1-61619-587-8 Hardcover $85
