Berkeley, CA – PBA Galleries' Fine Art and Photography Sale 753 held on January 27th was a very successful auction with lot of activity. It aroused a deep interest on lots of great diversity; the prints and lithographs did particularly well.  

Detroit — The Detroit Festival of Books is excited to announce its fifth-annual festival on Sunday, July 17. This year’s Bookfest will be a fifth-annual celebration of literature and culture in southeast Michigan. The Eastern Market Partnership continues to support Bookfest and is again hosting…

London – The peripatetic life of the 19th century Irish painter George Chinnery (1774-1852) took him from the Tipperary of his birth to London, then to Serampore in West Bengal via Madras, Calcutta and Dacca. Fleeing his creditors, he arrived in Macau in 1825 and made the island his home until his…

Stuttgart, Germany — Even though an in-person fair is not yet possible due to the ongoing pandemic, the German Antiquarian Booksellers' Association, VDA, has kept with the tradition of its printed catalogue, an important component of the Stuttgart fair each year. The much-anticipated catalogue of…

New York — Fine Books & Autographs are at Swann Galleries Thursday, February 17. Autographs from inspirational figures across technology, politics, literature and beyond will feature, alongside scarce first editions from the twentieth century and noteworthy artist books.

Austin, TX — To mark the 100th anniversary of the publication of James Joyce’s landmark work of literary modernism, “Ulysses,” The University of Texas at Austin’s Harry Ransom Center will offer a virtual program on its new Joyce exhibition on Feb. 2—100 years to the day after “Ulysses” was…

Berkeley, CA — PBA Galleries announced a PBA Platinum Sale on Thursday, February 10th, 2022. The sale consists of 113 select lots of rare, important, and valuable material in all fields, with printed books from the 16th to 21st centuries containing landmarks of science, literature, and history;…

Wilton, CT – Two letters signed by Albert Einstein (one typed, one handwritten, both in German), a recognizance bond signed by Sir Isaac Newton when he was Warden of the Royal Mint in 1699, and two items signed by Abraham Lincoln (one an autograph album, the other an early legal brief drafted…

London — James Joyce’s Ulysses was published at Sylvia Beach’s Paris bookshop Shakespeare & Co, on 2nd February 1922. A hundred years on, the book is still fascinating and maddening readers around the world, often hailed as a “demonstration and summation” of the entire modernist movement.  

Amsterdam — Every now and again, those of us lucky enough to be immersed in the world of antique books come across something that particularly excites us.   It may be the age and edition that is exciting. This particular book is a first edition from 1543.   Perhaps it is the importance of…