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Sotheby's will run the second installment of its Reason and Revolution auction devoted to the…
Three days after the failed Bay of Pigs invasion collapsed in Cuba, President John F. Kennedy…
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Boston — RR Auction's October Fine Autographs and Artifacts sale boasts a wealth of important literary letters and Revolutionary rarities.
Highlights include an autograph letter signed by Edgar Allan Poe. In the one-page letter, dated November 12, 1836, Poe solicits a donation for the…
Another very busy week for bibliophiles coming up in the auction rooms.
Minneapolis, MN — Minnesota Center for Book Arts (MCBA) is pleased to announce that the winner of the 2022 MCBA Prize is San Antonio, Texas–based artist Keri Miki-Lani Schroeder for her artist’s book, If You Need Anything.
New Haven, CT — The William Reese Company, the world’s leading antiquarian bookseller of printed and manuscript Americana, is pleased to announce the continuation of the William Reese name and bookselling tradition under the new ownership of a joint venture between New York-based James Cummins…
Coming to auction next month is a dazzling collection, notable for its first editions, modern illuminated manuscripts, and beautiful bindings. There’s a Nuremberg Chronicle, a Second Folio, and a Fourth Folio. Plus Arthur Conan Doyle, Samuel Johnson, and Mary Shelley, just to name a few of the…
Los Angeles – The J. Paul Getty Museum presents Dutch Drawings from a Collector’s Cabinet, an exhibition showcasing for the first time a magnificent group of 17th-century drawings acquired from a private collector in 2019. On view at the Getty Center from October 11, 2022, to January 15, 2023…
Our Bright Young Booksellers series continues today with Sören Schuhmacher, proprietor of Chunking Books, who recently relocated from Germany to northern Spain.
On July 17, 1846, Edgar Allan Poe wrote to John Bisco, the publisher of the Broadway Journal, a magazine Poe once edited, to ask him to call upon an attorney in relation to “attacks made upon me” by playwright Thomas Dunn English. Poe and his friend-turned-foe had been trading barbs (and punches)…
Minneapolis, MN — Minnesota Center for Book Arts is pleased to announce our newly-selected MCBA/Jerome Foundation Book Arts Mentorship Recipients: D’Angelo Christian, Minneapolis-based photographer; Michael Khuth, St. Paul-based independent curator and lens-based collage artist; and Leah Klister,…
Quite a week coming up in the salerooms, including auctions of the library of William St. Clair and of the Glaisdale Agricultural Library.
