Jeremy Dibbell
- Bonhams London sold Books, Maps, Manuscripts and Historical Photographs on 3 June, the top lot being Francis Frith's
As promised, a closer look at a very neat sale coming up on at Bonhams London on Wednesday (23 Ma
Just in case we biblio-folk needed some perspective: last week's sale of "The Scream" for $119.9 million was more than the totals realized over all the book auctions in 2011 for both Christie's and
Some brief recaps of the early sales, and previews of what's coming for April:
As you might imagine, when I saw a publication notice for John Hruschka's How Books Came to America: The Rise of the American Book Trade
Published to accompany an exhibit this spring at Yale's Beinecke Library, Remembering Shakespeare (Yale University Press, 2012)
January's a fairly quiet auction month overall, but there's certainly the potential for a really big sale price, at Christie's New York on 20 January.
On 6 October, PBA Galleries will sell Fine Literature & Books in All Fields, in 406 lots.
I've been a fan of Matthew Pearl's novels from the get-go; while I always have a hard time picking "favorite" books, The Dante Club would certainly make any list of top novels I'
