Fine Books News: Recent
Here are the sales I'll be keeping an eye on:
Going under the hammer this week at University Archives is a ticket stub for Charles Dickens's…
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Goldin’s Pop Culture Elite Auction features a lineup of more than 80 comics, marking the first appearances of several iconic figures.Highlights include: * 1974 Incredible Hulk #181 which marks the first full appearance of Wolverine, with the Herb Trimpe cover on the issue portraying the "…
At Christie's London on Tuesday, June 11, 61 lots of Manuscript Masterpieces from the Schøyen Collection, including the Crosby-Schøyen Codex, the earliest known book in private hands, a papyrus codex (mid-third- to fourth-century) which seems to have served as an Easter lectionary.
Christine Keeler was 21 when she was thrust into the limelight, becoming a household name as the woman at the heart of the 1960s Profumo scandal that nearly brought down the British government.
Sotheby's New York will be offering the Rothschild copy of William Blake's Songs of Innocence and of Experience, an extremely rare example of the earliest artist books, and one of the most valuable books of poetry ever offered on June 26.
Christie’s' forthcoming June 13-27 Fine Printed Books and Manuscripts including Americana online sale features a selection of color-plate books, manuscripts, early printed material, and literary classics.Highlights include: *
Mountains and plains and adventure: William & May Morris and Iceland has opened at their Kelmscott Manor country home in Oxfordshire, coinciding with the centenary of May Morris’s first trip to Iceland.
Sotheby’s has announced the auction of the Shem Tov Bible, one of the most significant medieval illuminated Hebrew manuscripts, with an estimate of $5m-$7m.Written by the scholar Rabbi Shem Tov Ibn Gaon in 1312 in Soria, Castile, the Shem Tov Bible is a masterpiece of scribal art from the Golden…
An exhibition of illuminated manuscripts depicting different places, peoples, and customs around the world from the perspective of medieval Europeans opens at The J. Paul Getty Museum on June 11.
An intriguing handwritten manuscript of bestselling French novel L’Étranger translated as The Outsider/The Stranger by Albert Camus has sold for €500,000 ($544,000) at auction in Paris.
Highlights from Heritage Auctions' June 6 The Art of War: Historical & Political Posters auction include:* World War I recruiting poster (U.S. Navy, 1917), 26.5" X 40.5", I Want You for the Navy. The work of Howard Chandler Christy, war illustrator and creator of the famous 'Christy Girls'.…
