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Articles - March - 2024 Issue

Toronto Book Auctions: Announcing a (mostly book), auction scheduled for March 6th, 2024 at 2pm ET

TBA:  Helping book buyers and sellers to connect

TBA: Helping book buyers and sellers to connect

Toronto Book Auctions, affiliated with one of the oldest independent bookstores in Canada, Acadia Art & Rare Books Est. 1931, a long-standing member of the Antiquarian Bookseller Association of Canada, has now posted a fresh auction of 450 lots that starts on March 6th at 2pm EST.  Pre-bidding is now available at https://www.liveauctioneers.com/catalog/319996_art-photo-signed-books-militarynonfiction/.

 

For those who haven’t encountered them, TBA first started offering online auctions in 2020 to broaden access for consignors and bidders for material consigned to them by Toronto’s book and antique collectors.!  This is our 4th online sale  Viva liveauctioneers!

 

We are offering:

 

Art & Photography book monographs (Lots: 1 to 120).

Photography Book Monographs with an emphasis on Chinese photo-books & Landscape photo-books (Lots: 121 to 220).

Wilbur Smith Signed 1st editions (Lots: 220 to 247).

Robertson Davies Signed 1st editions (Lots: 246 to 264).

Group lots from The Notable Trials Library (Lots: 265 to 280).

 

An extensive library of Military Fiction, Non-fiction & related Canadiana, all collected by a Toronto Lieutenant Colonel (Lots: 281 to 350).

 

Art & Photo books (Lots: 351 to 399); Artists' Books & Multiples (Lots: 400 to 420).

Art Prints and Photographs. (Lots: 421 to 449. Rauschenberg, Edward Weston, William Kurelek, & others)

 

As well, a few miscellaneous, including a few rare Japanese reference books (Lots 450 on)

 

While we have a wide variety of listings in our March 6th sale, there is something rather special, a WWI photo album of more than 300 photos about the Canadian Service Expedition Force – Siberia 1918-1919.  In fact we are offering two albums.

 

As well we are offering “A signed Andy Warhol book with a drawing to the title page by the artist” and “A limited edition Giger book with a Signed print by the artist.

 

If you register to bid you can call or send us an email.  Rest assured, we are committed to a satisfactory experience for both consignors and buyers!

 

Again, here the link to our sale:  https://www.liveauctioneers.com/catalog/319996_art-photo-signed-books-militarynonfiction/

 

Join us!

 

Carlos Galdamez

416.554/9017

ACADIA BOOKS & ART

(Acadia Art & Rare Books est. 1931)

www.AcadiaBooks.Com

Toronto Book Auctions

www.TorontoBookAuctions.com

 

232 Queen St East

Toronto, ON M5A 1S3

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