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Sale of Karl Lagerfeld Original Fashion Drawings Attracts Intense Worldwide Bidding

West Palm Beach, FL - On April 18, runway action halted temporarily as fashionistas... read more

Waverly Rare Books to Conduct May 2 Judaica Auction

Falls Church, VA - Waverly Rare Books, a division of Quinn’s Auction Galleries, will... read more

A Record for Peruvian Photographer Martín Chambi at Swann Galleries

New York — Swann Galleries’ sale of Classic & Contemporary Photographs on Thursday, April... read more

Bond Abounds in Literature Auction at Swann on May 14

New York - Nineteenth- and twentieth-century luminaries, science-fiction and more form Swann Galleries’ 19th... read more

Two Hunter S. Thompson Letters to be Auctioned

Los Angeles - An pair of extraordinary letters by Gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson... read more

Printed & Manuscript Americana Realizes $1 Million at Swann

New York - Swann Galleries’ Printed & Manuscript Americana sale on Thursday, April 16... read more

Einstein Letter Defending his Jewish Heritage to be Auctioned

Los Angeles - A fascinating letter by Albert Einstein on the Jewish People’s rights... read more

"William Steig's Sylvester and the Magic Pebble: A Golden Anniversary" Opens May 4

Amherst, MA --The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art celebrates the golden anniversary... read more

Features

Jonathan Lethem’s Books

By Craig Fehrman

Lethem’s passion for antiquarian books may not manifest in his fiction, but it is evident on his shelves

Film Fakes

By Martha Steger

The books and documents created to be TV and movie props get an encore in the collectors’ marketplace

 

Featured Columns

Gently Mad

Read Online

At The Arion Press

By Nicholas A. Basbanes

Andrew Hoyem on printing, binding, and selling fine press books

Record-Breaker

Gentlemanly Pursuits

By Ian McKay

The Book of Hawking, Hunting and Fishing is still a good catch

Book Art

Paper as Subtext

By Richard Minsky

An interview with papermaker and book artist Robbin Ami Silverberg

Beyond the Basics

Thinking Outside the Book

By Joel Silver

Learning from other collecting fields

In the Library

The Band Plays On

By Nicholas G. Meriwether

The Grateful Dead Archive at UC Santa Cruz

Fine Maps

Peddling Maps

By Jeffrey S. Murray

The American bicycle gave rise to a new mobility

Sold@Auction

The Autumn Auction Season

By Ian McKay

Modern firsts, early printed music, and illustration art

On the Block

Never a Dull Day

By Jeremy Dibbell

Skinner’s first auction under Devon Gray

How I Got Started

Private Presses

Collector David Culbert