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Tuesday, March 5, 2013

Louis Icart: Leda And The Swann Auction

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by Stephen J. Gertz Swann Auction Galleries is offering a copy of the Louis Icart-illustrated edition of Leda , Pierre Loüys adaptati...
Monday, March 4, 2013

The Shadow Of Your Smile Is A Monkey: The Caricatures Of Charles H. Bennett

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by Stephen J. Gertz In 1857, Shadows , an octavo album of thirty-six plates in wrappers, was published. Quite popular, in the next ...
Friday, March 1, 2013

Sangorski & Sutcliffe Celebrate Elizabethan Poets

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by Stephen J. Gertz Around  1920, Sangorski & Sutcliffe, the famed London bindery established in 1901 by Francis Sangorski (1875-...
Thursday, February 28, 2013

A Landmark In The History of Style

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by Stephen J. Gertz "The task which you propose to me of adapting words to these airs is by no means simple. The poet, who woul...
Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Bukowski: Lost Original Drawings Of A Dirty Old Man Are Found

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by Stephen J. Gertz Nineteen long-lost original drawings by Charles Bukowski , America's poet laureate of the depths, surfaced at ...
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Tuesday, February 26, 2013

JFK, The Stripper, The Cuban Missile Crisis And Lincoln Bedroom

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by Stephen J. Gertz Two signed autograph letters from burlesque queen Blaze Starr (born 1932 as Fannie Belle Fleming) to an unknow...
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Monday, February 25, 2013

Mark Twain, Hapless Collector, For $75,000

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by Stephen J. Gertz Mark Twain's autograph manuscript of  Chapter XX of A Tramp Abroad , published in 1880, has come to market. ...