Rare Book Monthly Articles - December - 2024 Issue

The Agony and the Ecstasy

The Agony and the Ecstasy

What was once known as book collecting, we now call collectible paper because many forms of paper are silently and seamlessly appearing in catalogues and listings. There’s no fanfare about it anymore because paper always belonged but its increasing importance, measured by frequency and price has our attention.   Ninety percent of old and collectible books occasionally appear in dealer catalogues, at shows, on listing sites and at auction. And because frequency of reappearance at auction is followed and retained, rare and collectible books' rarity are increasingly understood. For Ephemera,...

AI Meets the Book World

AI Meets the Book World

AI is creeping into the book world, and not everyone is happy about it. If there is anyone left who doesn't know what “AI” stands for, it's “artificial intelligence.” AI can not only answer your qu...

Nick Aretakis, ABAA: A Fresh e-List

Nick Aretakis, ABAA: A Fresh e-List

Nick Aretakis, ABAA: A Fresh e-List   Nick Aretakis, who helped the Reese Company after the passing of William Bill Reese, has returned to manage his own firm:  Nick Aretakis – Americana, now bas...

Sotheby’s Posts Ambitious and Diverse December Sale Schedule

Sotheby’s Posts Ambitious and Diverse December Sale Schedule

Sotheby’s global Books and Manuscripts Department has posted a diverse and ambitious sales schedule for the final month of 2024, with material ranging from the fourth through the twenty-first centu...

TikTok for Book Collectors

TikTok for Book Collectors

Where is the new book collector? That's a question many have been asking ever since dealers started noticing the stereotypical, traditional book collectors were aging out. Here is one answer – TikT...

Some Highs and Lows of 2024 Bookselling

Some Highs and Lows of 2024 Bookselling

Published Page: A big bricks and mortar store in a small Texas town Jim Hart and his wife Connye are the owners of the Published Page in Cleburne, Texas. This is a large general interest shop stoc...

Larry McMurtry's Legendary “Booked Up” to be Reborn as a Literary Center in His Honor

Larry McMurtry's Legendary “Booked Up” to be Reborn as a Literary Center in His Honor

Larry McMurtry was one of America's greatest novelists of recent memory. That was an unnecessary preface. Everyone knows that. The Last Picture Show, Terms of Endearment, Lonesome Dove, are a few o...

High Bids Win: Letterpress & Bindery Auction end December 5th, and then 3 more auctions

High Bids Win: Letterpress & Bindery Auction end December 5th, and then 3 more auctions

High Bids Win: Letterpress Bindery Auction ends December 5th, and then 3 more auctions   For most, books start with paper and ink.  But for a special few, they prefer to have the old equipment t...

Giving Big:  Glen and Cathy Miranker Make Two Multi-million Dollar Donations

Giving Big:  Glen and Cathy Miranker Make Two Multi-million Dollar Donations

Noted California bibliophiles and philanthropists Glen and Cathy Miranker recently made two multi-million dollar donations. They gave $3.1 million to endow a full-time curatorial chair for the teac...

The Bouquinistes Displayed!

The Bouquinistes Displayed!

Photographer Alain Lecornu celebrates the “bouquinistes des quais de Seine”, in Paris, France, and their recent “victory” over modernity with a beautiful project—and guess what, it’s a book! Books...

Doyle on 12/6:  Rare Books, Autographs, & Maps +++

Doyle on 12/6: Rare Books, Autographs, & Maps +++

Doyle on 12/6:  Rare Books, Autographs, Maps +++   Doyle’s upcoming auction of collectible paper in many forms on December 6th is fun and easy to parse.  There are 305 lots that can be searched ...

There's a New Book Publisher in Town and It's a Name You Know

There's a New Book Publisher in Town and It's a Name You Know

There is a new book publisher in town but it's someone you know well from its other endeavors. It is one of just three American companies with a market value of over $3 trillion, the other two bein...

Best wishes for the holidays

Best wishes for the holidays

Best wishes for the holidays.   Rare books and collectible paper enjoy a wide following because collectors, institutions, appraisers, dealers and auction houses find pleasure and opportunity in t...

Seven New Catalogues Reviewed

Seven New Catalogues Reviewed

This month we review seven new booksellers' catalogues. Michael D. Heaston Rare Books Manuscripts presents a catalogue of “Wanderings Westward,” as Americans began to settle their more western exp...

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    Sotheby’s: William Shakespeare.
    The Poems and Sonnets of William Shakespeare, 1960. 7,210 USD
    Sotheby’s: Charles Dickens.
    A Christmas Carol, First Edition, 1843. 17,500 USD
    Sotheby’s: William Golding.
    Lord of the Flies, First Edition, 1954. 5,400 USD
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    Sotheby’s: Lewis Carroll.
    Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There, Inscribed First Edition, 1872. 25,000 USD
    Sotheby’s: J.R.R. Tolkien.
    The Hobbit, First Edition, 1937. 12,000 USD
    Sotheby’s: John Milton.
    Paradise Lost, 1759. 5,400 USD
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    High Bids Win, Jan. 16: Vintage Wooden Case Full of Craftools.
    High Bids Win, Jan. 16: Ricardo Pistol Bit.
    High Bids Win, Jan. 16: Craftool saddle stamps.
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    January 16, 2025
    High Bids Win, Jan. 16: Craftool Set.
    High Bids Win, Jan. 16: Tandy Pro Skiver with attachments.
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    High Bids Win, Jan. 16: Hewit-Ecrace Green Calf. 10 sq. ft.
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    January 16, 2025
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    High Bids Win, Jan. 16: Vintage Mallet.
    High Bids Win, Jan. 16: Midas Brass adjustable Swivel Knife.
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    Collectible Books, Maps, & Documents Auction
    January 22, 2025
    Leland Little, Jan. 22: The First Issue of Robert Frost's A Boy's Will, In Extremely Scarce Binding.
    Leland Little, Jan. 22: Knight's An Account of the Remains of the Worship of Priapus.
    Leland Little, Jan. 22: First Edition of Locke's Important Treatise Some Thoughts Concerning Education.
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    Collectible Books, Maps, & Documents Auction
    January 22, 2025
    Leland Little, Jan. 22: The Richly Illustrated First French Edition of Voyages de Corneille Le Brun par la Moscovie, en Perse, et aux Indes Orientales.
    Leland Little, Jan. 22: Scarce First Issue of An Account of the Province of Carolina in America, Finely Bound and With Celebrated John Speed Map.
    Leland Little, Jan. 22: Humphrey's An Historical Account, Complete with Scarce Folding Maps.
    Leland Little
    Collectible Books, Maps, & Documents Auction
    January 22, 2025
    Leland Little, Jan. 22: First Edition of Chamberlain's Scarce Civil War Memoir The Passing of the Armies.
    Leland Little, Jan. 22: A Rare Photograph of David Bruce Brown and #48 Fiat.
    Leland Little, Jan. 22: George Cruikshank (England, 1792-1878), Archive of Sketches, Notes, and Letters.
    Leland Little
    Collectible Books, Maps, & Documents Auction
    January 22, 2025
    Leland Little, Jan. 22: Extremely Scarce Copy of Die Samländische Ode (The Samland Ode), Signed by Max Pechstein.
    Leland Little, Jan. 22: Andy Warhol's The Thirteen Most Wanted Men Exhibition Catalogue.
    Leland Little, Jan. 22: Edward Ruscha (American, b. 1937), Every Building on the Sunset Strip.
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