UPDATE: These items were recovered. The following items were stolen during the BuchWien last weekend: Schindelmayer, C.R.: Taschen-Atlas in XXXXV Karten. Wien, Schraembl, 1807. With engraved title and... [more {visitor:mbr_blog_screenname}]
Entries from November 2011
The following items have been reported stolen: Title : THE F.B. NIGHTINGALE ARCHIVE PRIVATE STEREO PHOTOGRAPHS OF CHINA : 1920-1921 Authors : Frederick B. Nightingale (1885-195?) Date of publication :... [more {visitor:mbr_blog_screenname}]
The awards ceremony for the National Collegiate Book Collecting Contest was held last month in the Library of Congress and included a special presentation by Mark Dimunation, in which he showed off so... [more {visitor:mbr_blog_screenname}]
Last weekend's 35th Annual Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair was a great successlots of incredible material was being offered by dealers and each day the fair was filled with enthusiastic at... [more {visitor:mbr_blog_screenname}]
The following item has been reported stolen from the collections of the Melville J. Herskovits Library of African, Studies, Northwestern University: Balthazar Telles The Travels of the Jesuits in Ethi... [more {visitor:mbr_blog_screenname}]
An unpublished manuscript written by a fourteen-year-old Charlotte Brontë will go up for auction at Sotheby's London next month. The manuscript is of a mini-magazine entitled The Young Man's Magazin... [more {visitor:mbr_blog_screenname}]
In commemoration of what would be William Golding's centennial birthday, the Bodleian Library at Oxford will be displaying the original manuscript of The Lord of the Flies. The exhibit was curated by ... [more {visitor:mbr_blog_screenname}]
ABAA members across the country are gearing up for next weekend's 35th Annual Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair and we hope to see you there! Over 120 dealers from the US and around the world... [more {visitor:mbr_blog_screenname}]
The following item has been reported stolen: Title : Les Plaisirs et les Jours Authors : Proust (Marcel) Date of publication : 1896 Publisher : Calmann Levy, Paris Description : Calmann Lévy, Paris, ... [more {visitor:mbr_blog_screenname}]
Below is a video by ABAA member Phil Pirages (Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books & Manuscripts) about book collectinghow and why people collect books, and the collaboration between the collector and the b... [more {visitor:mbr_blog_screenname}]