Kenneth Karmiole, Bookseller

Books printed before 1800, all subjects, all languages. All offers will receive a quick reply.

Book Arts

Jane Austen's Elizabeth Bennet Becomes Interactive AI Avatar

Ptolemy’s 'Geographia': Rare Book of the Week

Incline Press Launch New Letterpress Edition of 'The Tragical Comedy of Punch & Judy'

Visual Art

Leslie Ragan, The New 20th Century Limited / New York Central System, 1939. Estimate $12,000 to $18,000.

Leslie Ragan Calendar Art for the New York Central Railway to Auction

Bloomsbury Group Celebrated in New Exhibition Including Rarely Seen Virginia Woolf Gift

The Story of 'Free to Be...You and Me' Celebrated in New Exhibition

Photographs

Pre-Civil War Photograph

Historic Pre-Civil War Photograph of an Interracial Couple to Auction

New York Photographs and Posters in 400th City Anniversary Auction

Photographs by Paul Strand, Tina Modotti, and Hal Gould Go Under the Hammer

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Caveat Emptor: or some thoughts on ethics and online book buying

In Lincoln’s Own Words

Heritage Seeks Illustration Art for April Sale

Rare Books

John Osborne's Look Back in Anger and The Entertainer

First Edition of John Osborne’s 'Look Back in Anger' With First Page of Draft Script to Auction

Tywin Lannister's 'Histories of the Greater and Lesser Houses': Rare Book of the Week

New York Public Library Acquires Archive of Oliver Sacks

Maps

Unpublished annotated Proof of Harry Beck’s 1933 first edition tube map, with corrections and proposals in Becks own hand

Rare London Underground Maps in New Exhibition and Sale

World War II Maps of Service and Sacrifice

Five Rare Books for Collectors: Maps

Auctions

James Garfield appoints a female notary for the District of Columbia, June 9, 1881

Set of Presidential Signatures at University Archives

Freeman’s | Hindman Brings Rare Georg Jensen Silver Hollowware to Auction

André Gide Autograph Manuscript Leads Final Pierre Bergé Library Auction

Book People

Antique books

New Series of Sandars Lectures Will Focus on 'Resistance to Bibliography'

Illustrated Cairo Genizah, Book Nooks, and Libraries in Fiction : October Books Roundup

Lorne Bair Named as New President of the Board of Antiquarian Book School Foundation

Exhibitions

Diamond Sutra Manuscripts Star in New Silk Roads Exhibition

'Jane Austen and the Art of Writing' Exhibition Opens

New Artists’ Books Exhibition Reimagines the Passport

Americana

Extra-illustrated copy of John G. Nicolay and John Hay’s 1890 history of Abraham Lincoln (lot 99; estimate: $50,000 - $70,000

Lincolniana and Stephen White Photography Collection  at Freeman’s | Hindman

Pens Used By John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson to Sign Legislation to Auction

Rare Printed Archetype of the United States Constitution to Auction