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The Library of Congress has acquired the complete collection of music manuscripts of jazz…
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With noteworthy publications and antique materials related to exploration, travel, and the polar regions, Potter & Potter Auctions’ 430 lot Lieutenant Nobu Shirase and the Japanese Antarctic Expedition, 1910-1912: The Important Collection of Chet Ross Sale made a total of $630,000.
A sequence from Frank Miller's 1986 comic book Batman: The Dark Knight Returns - the two-page spread during which the Joker snaps his neck to make it look like Batman killed him - has sold at Heritage Auctions for $550,000. Those are now the most expensive story pages from the book that, in Miller'…
The Library of Congress has named Stephanie Stillo as the new chief of the Library’s Rare Book and Special Collections Division. Stillo, who has already assumed her new role, joined the Library in 2016. She has served as the curator of the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection and the Aramont Library —…
More than 40 antiquarian book, ephemera and photo dealers from 10 states and Canada have signed on to the inaugural Books in Boston @ Hilton Back Bay, a new antiquarian book & ephemera fair to be held on October 28.
With the publication of Marvellously Revolting Recipes inspired by Roald Dahl’s works published by Puffin, Bonhams is marking the occasion with a special auction entitled Marvellously Revolting Recipes: Works Sold to Benefit Roald Dahl’s Marvellous Children’s Charity. The…
Thousands of collectors, fans, and aficionados flocked to The Empire State Rare Book and Print Fair at the St. Bartholomew’s Church (St. Bart’s) in New York City. The debut fair featured more than 50 exhibitors from across the country and showcased thousands of beautiful and rare books, prints,…
Peter Harrington returns to Frieze Masters - currently running until October 15 - with a catalogue concentrating on the many ways the illustrative arts have enhanced, decorated, and illuminated the printed book.
In 1993 The New Yorker ran one of its most famous cartoons, a the black-and-white single-panel "On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog" by Peter Steiner. Featuring two chatting dogs sitting in front of a desktop computer, it became the most reproduced cartoon in the history of the magazine.
Swann Galleries' October 26 Fine Books & Autographs auction features a selection of signed first editions, 19th and 20th century classics, as well as art, press and illustrated books.
The History of Western Music: Manuscripts from the Schøyen Collection at Christie’s is an online-only sale which showcases the history of music with more than 150 lots from medieval notation to musical manuscripts, scores, drafts and composers’ letters spanning 1,200 years.
