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Louis Icart: Leda And The Swann Auction
by Stephen J. GertzSwann Auction Galleries is offering a copy of the Louis Icart-illustrated edition of Leda, Pierre Loüys adaptation of the classic tale from Greek mythology, Leda and the Swan, in...
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Meet Paul Parrot, Rare Bird Casanova & Star Of Rare Book
by AlbertToday's guest blogger is, once more,Albert the Writing Parrot, a thirty-four year old Yellow-Naped Amazon, Booktryt's mascot, my ward since fledged, and, pathetically, my most successful...
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Don't Wipe Your Nose With This Map
by Stephen J. GertzEvelyn Mulwray: It's a handkerchief! [slap] Jake Gertz: I said I want the truth! Evelyn Mulwray: It's a map… [slap] Evelyn Mulwray: It's a handkerchief… [slap] Evelyn Mulwray: A...
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If Classic Rock Albums Were Books
by Stephen J. Gertz"Fast-paced 1958 thriller: a jilted train driver hijacks his New York subway train to exact revenge upon his love rival, only to threaten the life of his ex-lover. The last 30 pages...
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The Benny Hill (Or Soupy Sales) of 19th C. British Caricaturists
by Stephen J. GertzA Cutlass. (Cut-Lass).In 1828, a tasty if somewhat groan-inducing gallimaufry of visual wordplay, corniness, and puns in aquatint caricature, Joe Lisle's Play Upon Words, was...
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Elegant Style And Fashion In 19th C. Spain
by Stephen J. GertzPublished weekly from 1842 through the turn of the 20th century, La Moda Elegante Ilustrada, Periodico de las Familias (Illustrated Elegant Style, A Family Magazine) was nineteenth...
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Never Seen Hemingway Photos As Teen Come To Auction
by Stephen J. GertzErnie's troutErnest at age fourteen."All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called 'Huckleberry Finn'"Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â -...
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Original F. Scott Fitzgerald Manuscript Poems Discovered
by Stephen J. GertzA cache of never before seen original and revealing F. Scott Fitzgerald autograph material has surfaced and is being introduced into the marketplace by Nate D. Sanders Auctions...
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Historic Collection Of Kerouac Letters Offered At $1,250,000
by Stephen J. GertzFrom "Old Sam Kerouac.""To think that all that crazy stuff I’ve written 
since 1951 in a way started when you casually suggested, in Chinese restaurant on Amsterdam and 124th,...
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The Most Notorious Publisher In American History
by Stephen J. GertzHe stood at the crossroads of Modernism and censorship, twentieth century literature, copyright law, and cultural history. He introduced America to James Joyce's Ulysses, D.H....
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These Vintage Shoes A Tiffany Lamp Unto Your Feet
by Stephen J. GertzSay hello to the Karl Friedrich Schoensiegel Schuhmuseum in der Mappe (The Shoe Museum in Portfolio), an extensive archive of original watercolors, drawings, autograph manuscripts,...
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A Bookbinding Workshop In 1840
by Stephen J. GertzThis busy image of a nineteenth century bookbinding workshop c. 1840 is one of thirty hand-colored lithographed plates depicting twenty-nine trades and professions issued in 30...
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Frederick Douglass Gets A Raise, From $1.00 To $31,200
by Stephen J. GertzOne of only five extant copies.In 1847, Frederick Douglass, discontent with his fee for the popular articles he wrote for William Lloyd Garrison's The Liberator, asked for a raise,...
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1834 Prediction Of Transportation Utopia In The Year 2000
by Stephen J. GertzThe marvelous and fascinating march of vehicular technology is satirized in this extremely rare, separately-issued lithograph printed on linen that highlights the early...
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Kids Give Dog A Colonic, And Other Childhood Amusements In 1824
by Stephen J. GertzThe Remedy. (Aubry).Kids Do The Darnedest Things:It's France's Funniest Home Videos, nineteenth century edition, capturing, in hand-colored stills, those precious cinema verité...
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Splendid Beauty Reads Book En Plein Air (1895)
by Stephen J. GertzA nude woman, languid upon a sheet in a pastoral setting, with a gown loosely draped across her lower body, is deeply engrossed in a book. The book she's reading is, presumably,...
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A Magnificent 16th Century Woodcut On Perspective
by Stephen J. GertzThe above woodcut, one of the most dramatic of the sixteenth century, is the variant title-page to the first edition of Daniele Barbaro's La Practica della Perspectiva, a virtual...
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Stunning Modernist Posters At Swann Galleries
by Stephen J. GertzToday, Monday, May 13, 2013, Swann Auction Galleries is hosting a spectacular graphic arts sale, an extravaganza of Modernist posters, 253 lots of some of the most visually arresting...
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Seven More Stunning Modernist Posters
by Stephen J. GertzMore from Swann Galleries' Modernist Posters sale, held yesterday.James Harley Minter designed this poster, Bal Pa'Pillon, in 1931 for The Kokoon Club of Cleveland, Ohio, founded in...
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Book Illustrator Ben Shahn Does Posters
by Stephen J. GertzWE WANT PEACE / REGISTER - VOTE. (1946). "His codified signature neatly scribbled under any of his images conjures up a peerless world of visual and emotional realism" (Art Directors...
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