I have a job as an assistant to an antiquarian bookseller.
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" There's nothing antiquarian or purist about Victoria's new second album, "Silences.
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Silhouettes: An Illustrated Inventory is explorable online through the American Antiquarian Society.
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Not all of New York's anti–sex work laws are so antiquarian.
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These items are presented by over 100 publishers, antiquarian dealers, artists, and galleries.
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We took a tour of this year's New York International Antiquarian Book Fair.
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Mr. Schulman was a respected member of the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America.
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The narrator is a Brooklyn-based "antiquarian book dealer", Deen, or Dinanath Datta.
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"Once again, this was the proof that stealing antiquarian books doesn't bring you anywhere."
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Along the Via Po are Turin's many antiquarian bookshops, hawking old treatises on witchcraft.
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Ernst Beyeler got his first job in wartime Switzerland working for an antiquarian bookseller.
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As an antiquarian bookseller, whenever I pick up an old book, I sniff it.
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The idea, known as Theseus's paradox, has occupied modern writers as much as antiquarian ones.
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Most support Mr. Bercow's decision to ditch the more antiquarian trimmings of the speaker's uniform.
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There are discoveries still to be made, many of them at auctions and antiquarian bookstores.
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A tour of the recent annual installment of the New York International Antiquarian Book Fair.
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Antiquarian book dealers came by, and musicians in Zen-style robes, and the younger Oppenheimer brother.
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Vic Zoschak, president of the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America, was optimistic on the sudden resolution.
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It was donated to the university by Scottish polymath and antiquarian David Lang in the 1870s.
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New York International Antiquarian Book Fair March 7-10 at the Park Avenue Armory, Manhattan; nyantiquarianbookfair.com.
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I'm sure if I ask politely in antiquarian bookshops in Berlin and Vienna I'll eventually find it.
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Seventy-seven-year-old Harvey Jason may be the only antiquarian bookseller to inspire an action figure.
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He dealt in rare books, and was listed as a member of the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America.
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But the heist truly happened to a shipment of books destined for last weekend's California International Antiquarian Book Fair.
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The Antiquarian Book Fair is overwhelming, with dozens of books to discover at each of the 200-plus booths.
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The Brooklyn Antiquarian Book Fair may focus on old books, but it is certainly not just for old people.
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It will be exhibited Thursday through Sunday at the New York Antiquarian Book Fair at the Park Avenue Armory.
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With acid-free paper and sturdy jackets they should age well — perhaps too well for the antiquarian in me.
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The term used for the summer solstice, Alban Hefin, was dreamed up by a Welsh antiquarian in the 18th century.
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Much of this is routine at Swann, which held its first auction in 21919, specializing in rare and antiquarian books.
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At one point in "Gun Island," Deen arrives in Los Angeles for an antiquarian book dealers conference at a museum.
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After a lucky meeting with Cameron Treleaven, an antiquarian bookseller from Calgary, he was sent a whole library of explorers' accounts.
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Age: 78 Occupation: Producer of art and antique fairs, including the New York Antiquarian Book Fair My grandfather had a joke.
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The process, known as proroguing, usually passes without much notice, except for the pompous rituals and antiquarian costumes that accompany it.
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She's the curator of children's literature at the American Antiquarian Society, and she shared what we know about the coloring book's beginnings.
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The New York Antiquarian Book Fair continues at the Park Avenue Armory (643 Park Ave, Upper East Side, Manhattan) through March 11.
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On the other side is a small commercial area with two restaurants, a post office, an antiquarian book dealer and other merchants.
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"It is one of those mysterious historical or antiquarian problems which are doomed never to be solved," The Times wrote in 1853.
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And all but one of these fairs — the International Antiquarian Book Fair at the Park Avenue Armory — is devoted to contemporary works.
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It was acquired by the Wellcome Library in 1928 from an antiquarian bookseller named V. A. Heck; its previous owner is obscure.
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Perhaps you're not as much of an antiquarian as I am, but this looks like it should be a very interesting little adventure.
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When he finally finished the project and codified it in a hefty hardcover in 2018, what had once been antiquarian was now urgent.
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Yet it only came to popular prominence in the 20th century, when it was acquired by antiquarian bookseller Wilfrid M. Voynich in 1912.
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In 1973 the couple founded Ex Libris, which sold antiquarian books and periodicals on the ground floor of their East 70th Street townhouse.
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The letters, which Plath sent to Dr. Ruth Barnhouse, came to light after an antiquarian bookseller put them up for sale for $875,000.
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Willan is also making a donation to support the Cherniavsky Library Research Grants, which encourage research related to antiquarian books and culinary studies.
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Wasowicz has found examples in the Antiquarian Society's collection that go back to the 1850s, and there are art instruction books from even earlier.
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Attempts to recreate the building now would amount to a pastiche or replica, not a restoration, and Mackintosh was an innovator, not an antiquarian.
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Brian Lake, a member of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association, told The Guardian that "nothing like this" has ever before hit the rare books trade.
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For years, Mr. Rees-Mogg, 48, has been one of British politics' favorite eccentrics, affecting a languid, antiquarian poshness that verges on performance art.
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For most visitors, the annual New York International Antiquarian Book Fair is a chance to hear dealers share the fascinating stories behind their wares.
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Nan Wolverton, the show's other curator, is the director of fellowships at the antiquarian society, and of its Center for Historic American Visual Culture.
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Continuing through Sunday, the fair will present over 300 artist-run presses, antiquarian booksellers, and independent publishers from all over the US and abroad.
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The new documentary "The Booksellers" looks at the esoteric world of the antiquarian trade, and the passionate, eclectic and endangered characters who make it hum.
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The fair spotlights an eclectic range of artists' books, catalogues, monographs, periodicals, zines, ephemera, and multiples, presented by over 100 publishers, antiquarian dealers, artists, and galleries.
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Antiquarian bookselling is a close-knit community, with the official motto of the international association being Amor librorum nos unit — love of books unites us all.
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Her mother is a trustee of the Newberry Library, which is in Chicago, and a director of the Antiquarian Society of the Art Institute of Chicago.
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There are countless books at the annual New York International Antiquarian Book Fair, of course, but also ephemera of all kinds: posters, pamphlets, calendars, playing cards.
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Two other men, antiquarian Jean-Michel Corvez and Yonathan Birn, a dealer in clocks, were sentenced to seven years and six years respectively for handling the paintings.
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It's why antiquarian tomes, superseded by our shift to the digitization of information, now transcend the sum of their parts to become highly valuable items for collectors.
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He reburied them in pits within the Stonehenge site that are known as Aubrey Holes, named for 17th century antiquarian John Aubrey who first discovered the pits.
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The family accumulated the works in the 19th century, largely by buying existing collections, including statues belonging to Bartolomeo Cavaceppi, an 18th-century sculptor, antiquarian and restorer.
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They are valued in the tens or hundreds or thousands of dollars; the rarest of miniature antiquarian books can sell in the six or even seven figures.
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A curiosity in antiquarian stalls for decades, it is being reissued this month through a collaboration of two Brooklyn publishing companies, The Circadian Press and Sacred Bones Records.
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The next year he opened the Gotham Book Mart & Gallery at 16 East 46th Street, the site of the H.P. Kraus antiquarian bookstore, which had closed in 2003.
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Their arrests last month sent a shudder across the rare books industry, a multimillion-dollar business in the United States, according to the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America.
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The auction included more than 100 old master drawings donated to Rugby in the 19th century by a former student there, the collector and antiquarian Matthew Holbeche Bloxam.
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She is the daughter of Carolyn J. Mebert of Dover, N.H., and David T. Meikle of Portsmouth, N.H. Dr. Meikle is a Portsmouth-based independent antiquarian book seller.
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As the Blizzard of '16 approached the city gate, Ricky Jay, the sui-generis conjurer, scholar, storyteller, actor, antiquarian collector, and incorrigible perfectionist, knew what not to do.
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Listening to Jack White Thanks to Alec Wilkinson for his Profile of Jack White, the obsessive restorer, rehabilitator, and all-around antiquarian chameleon dandy ("The Polymath," March 13th).
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Beneath the steady gaze of Naxie, the store's calico cat, visitors will find rare and antiquarian books, new and used paperbacks, modern classics and troves of Greek literature.
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Digitized by the American Antiquarian Society, the 225 vintage images were intended for non-Native audiences and were reproduced in government reports, illustrated newspapers or mounted on stereo cards.
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He set the Strand on a path of unstoppable expansion, taking over the entire first floor, then, in the 1970s, the top three floors, and adding an antiquarian department.
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Hilly, leaf-encrusted and less than perfectly groomed, the Landing, as locals call it, incorporates about 100 houses with the informal, romantic aspect of books in an antiquarian shop.
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Little did you know that you were actually making a statement of Jetsons-level futurism compared to the real antiquarian cool kids of the era: the devotees of steampunk.
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The city will host at least 10, offering hundreds of booths of modern and contemporary art, from blue chip to brand-new, and even a sampling of antiquarian books.
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And rather than smother Shelley with soft cushions of antiquarian cultural prestige, the director, Haifaa al-Mansour, and the screenwriter, Emma Jensen, sharpen the sense of their subject's modernity.
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The New York International Antiquarian Book Fair, held every March at the Park Avenue Armory in Manhattan, is the world's premier gathering of buyers, sellers and lovers of rare books.
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And while dramatically increased security at the Vatican may go a long way toward preventing a recurrence here, the case is a window into the shadowy world of antiquarian forgeries.
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Antiquarian books are radically underpriced — a Shakespeare First Folio goes for much less at auction than a small Basquiat — because they aren't particularly good at helping rich people show off.
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The first was the argument, made by a geologist and an antiquarian, that animal remains found alongside stone tools in Britain and France proved the antiquity of the human race.
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ARTS An article on Tuesday about the New York International Antiquarian Book Fair misstated the words above the portrait of Qiu Jin in the pamphlet published soon after Qiu's death.
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Consider this: The New York International Antiquarian Book Fair, which is running through Sunday at the Park Avenue Armory (which hosted another art fair — the Art Show — just last week).
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Lazarsfeld and others thus helped revivify moribund, antiquarian modes of inquiry, and re-equip them with the latest Viennese techniques, often saving entire Western intellectual traditions from decrepitude, or possibly extinction.
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Celebratory accounts of European settlement and expansion have increasingly passed into an antiquarian realm, succeeded by studies of settler colonialism that approach the past more comparatively as well as more cautiously.
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Printed Matter's 20193 LA Art Book Fair (LAABF) will host 390 exhibitors from 31 countries, including a broad range of artists and collectives, small presses, institutions, galleries, antiquarian booksellers, and distributors.
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The Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America publishes a blog describing thefts nationwide and emails members the moment it is notified a book has been stolen, said Susan Benne, the group's executive director.
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SAN FRANCISCO — A worldwide strike by antiquarian booksellers against an Amazon subsidiary proved successful after two days, with the retailer apologizing and saying it would cancel the actions that prompted the protest.
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"Any town that we hit, we looked at the yellow pages, and if there was an antiquarian bookstore, we'd hit it," said Terry Halladay, the literature department manager at William Reese Company.
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With the New York Antiquarian Book Fair starting today on the Upper East Side, we visited the Henry Bookbinding Company in Manhattan to see how books were made in our city's past.
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From the main attraction on the West Side piers and Spring Break's Times Square free-for-all, to specialized fairs of paper art, design objects, and antiquarian books, there's something for everyone.
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The collection, which features memorabilia of the fantasy novel by Lewis Carroll - also known as Charles Lutwidge Dodgson - was owned by late antiquarian book and prints dealer Thomas Schuster and his wife Greta.
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Nancy Netzer, director of the McMullen Museum, said that one of her favorite discoveries during her research for the show was the biography of Ethel Josephine Scally, a forgotten textile artist and antiquarian.
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My hunch is they will: The mixture of antiquarian precision and entrepreneurial self-confidence that drives "La La Land" will be embraced by a generation for whom preservation and invention often go together.
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Susan Benne, executive director of the antiquarian booksellers' group, said the organization was working to create best practices for handling materials de-accessioned from libraries and is developing training on theft and provenance.
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" It uses an antiquarian style illustrated by Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night, or What You Will," and which blossomed in the 18th century with such works as Samuel Richardson's epistolary novel "Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded.
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Conjurers of all kinds would hang out near Astor Place at Weiser Antiquarian, the oldest occult bookstore in America, and they shopped for ingredients for spells at Alberto Rendon's botanica on 116th Street.
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I explored every day, gazing up to Beaux Arts cornices, perusing antiquarian hardbacks at the Bouquinistes along the Seine, enjoying obscure film retrospectives (Joseph Losey, Jon Cassavetes) at the cinema on Rue de Christine.
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Some of his records of this thorny past are among a collection of 19th-century photographs of North American Indians recently digitized and uploaded by the American Antiquarian Society as a scholarly finding aid.
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It may owe something to Powell's lengthy immersion in seventeenth-century prose during the war years, when, unable to write fiction, he worked instead on a book about the biographer and antiquarian John Aubrey.
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Glinting like an apparition in the night sky, the sculpture comes across with a blunt, almost raw beauty that, despite its antiquarian elements, avoids the lost-time nostalgia found in much of Cornell's work.
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The display includes more than 140 objects from the antiquarian society's extensive Revere holdings; the New-York Historical Society's own collection; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; and the Massachusetts Historical Society, among others.
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Yellapah painted in the first decades of the 19th century – a time when the cosmopolitan Orientalist obsession with India's antiquarian past had been replaced with a contemptuous and racialized desire to document its people.
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It was a veritable temple devoted to the past two or three centuries of first-rate, secondhand and antiquarian books: the Brontë sisters, the Mitford sisters, George Eliot, James Joyce, James Jones, Henry James.
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As with previous editions, the exhibitors run the gamut from antiquarian booksellers, to limited edition art book presses, gallery-produced publications, artist collectives, and as always, a massive section of zines and DIY publishers.
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When paleontologist Arthur Smith Woodward and lawyer and amateur antiquarian Charles Dawson announced their discovery of unusual fossils in a gravel pit near the town of Piltdown in December 1912, it caused an immediate sensation.
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Shortly after the theft, a man resembling the person seen in the video entered an antiquarian bookstore a few blocks away and tried to sell the two books, claiming that he had stumbled upon them.
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Nicholson comes from a long line of antiquarian book dealers (her business is called Bayntun Flowers, for George Bayntun, her great-great-grandfather, the founder of the famed, 126-year-old eponymous bookstore in Bath).
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But there was Mr. Rees-Mogg, nicknamed "the honorable gentleman from the 18th century" for his old-world tics and antiquarian poshness, looking like a Degas model, with his willowy frame and long, angular face.
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Reed describes him as a "local Boo Radley," but he owes far more to Jim Williams — the last semi-closeted real-life antiquarian living on legacy antebellum property to inspire his own Southern gothic tell-all.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads "It's dangerous to collect books as a seller," said Michael Laird, one of the rare books sellers at the New York Antiquarian Book Fair, currently at the Park Avenue Armory.
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The rediscovery of Dion is attributed to English antiquarian William Martin Leake in 1806, but it's only in the last four decades that major archaeological excavations have taken place at its temples, homes, and city walls.
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My favorite demarcation of the fall season — in part because of its sprawling format and brimming booths — this year it felt a little harder to find exhibitors, ranging from artist collectives to antiquarian booksellers, offering unique publications.
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With a collection of rare and antiquarian books on philosophy, history, and religion—including a Mayan codex written on deerskin—the library does not allow visitors to sign books out: Everything must be viewed on the premises.
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Its largest media stronghold is public radio, where "A Prairie Home Companion" and its successor, "Live From Here" hosted by Chris Thile, have long insisted that there's nothing antiquarian about songs driven by a banjo or mandolin.
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" Peter Harrington, a leading London antiquarian dealer, said AbeBooks' "high-handed manner" was at the root of the protest, with the platform taking the affected booksellers and "destroying their livelihoods in just a couple of impersonal sentences.
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The broadside, created when Franklin was 17, first surfaced in the 1820s, amid a wave of antiquarian interest in America's founding generation, but then disappeared from view, until a dealer recently discovered it pasted inside a scrapbook.
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Even in the niche world of rare-book dealers, the value of the items stolen is stunning, said Michael Vinson, a dealer based in New Mexico who is a member of the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America.
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Without undue didacticism — but also without euphemism or antiquarian excuse-making — Mr. Jude, drawing in part from contemporary records and writings, exposes how deeply the oppression of the Roma was woven into the 19th-century Balkan social order.
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Like some of the art world's most high-profile thefts, three thieves allegedly rappelled into the warehouse, where various collectors' books were being stored before a trip to the 50th California International Antiquarian Book Fair in Oakland, California.
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In the antiquarian section, Louisa Riley-Smith of London's 1523th Century Art Archives was showing her rare collection of Minimalist and Conceptual artist books from the last half century, with a particular focus on the 1960–80 period.
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SAN FRANCISCO — More than 450 antiquarian book dealers in at least 26 countries pulled their books off an Amazon subsidiary on Monday, an impromptu protest after the site abruptly said it would drop all sellers from several nations.
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"I would not have thought that we'll succeed, but you showed the real meaning of our motto," Adam Bosze, the president of the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of Hungary, wrote in a message to his foreign colleagues on Wednesday.
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Book-lined wine bars (Café Candelabro), restaurants (Restaurante Book) and cafes (Livraria da Baixa) fill the district, which is also home to Livraria Lello, a stunning Old World bookshop stocked to the rafters with new and antiquarian tomes.
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But rather than smother Mary Shelley — author of "Frankenstein," daughter of two eminent writers and wife of another — with soft cushions of antiquarian cultural prestige, Ms. al-Mansour and the screenwriter, Emma Jensen, sharpen the sense of Shelley's modernity.
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Endeavoring to access Langley's notebooks, she cozies up to his niece, a down-at-the-heels dealer in antiquarian books who isn't above employing a little Lee Israel-style hocus-pocus to produce fake inventory for a credulous clientele.
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Lauren Hewes, Andrew W. Mellon curator of graphic arts at the American Antiquarian Society (AAS), wrote in a post on the AAS Past is Present blog: Silhouettes were popular in the United States starting at the end of the eighteenth century.
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Object 2-A: Of particular interest is this 1975 Ford Maverick automobile, which Cecil Fisk-Weatherford Jones, antiquarian and museum trustee, came upon and hot-wired in a supermarket car park in one of the New England states circa 1979.
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Socialism, at least on the American political scene, seemed destined to join antiquarian curiosities in the annals of left-leaning political agitation, somewhere alongside the transcendentalists' failed commune at Brook Farm, agitations over the Single-Tax, and the temperance movement.
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The Ice King, one of the series's first adversaries, was once a kindly antiquarian, driven insane by a magic crown he used to try to protect 7-year-old Marceline (the aforementioned vampire) amid the ruins of the Mushroom War.
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It's a great chore to fight against dancer habit, but every decrease in strict adherence to the old ways in "Harlequinade" is a decrease in strangeness, weakening the power of what's left, making it seem smaller, of only antiquarian interest.
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If you don't care for his writing, you can feel that he's just a postmodern antiquarian, a super-literate academic who stitched together a pastiche of his many nineteenth- and twentieth-century influences, and infused the result with doomy melancholy and unease.
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In Nantucket-red trousers and loafers, the customer looked the part of an upscale antiquarian book collector as he browsed 16th-century Italian texts on display in a chandelier-decked showroom inside a landmark brownstone on the Upper East Side of Manhattan.
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Ultimately, the debate over the Civil War is not antiquarian, but cuts to the core political question of what sort of society America wants to be: one comfortable in white supremacy, or one willing to fight racism in all its pernicious forms.
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I had studied the mythological history of the site — the labyrinth, the Minotaur, Theseus, Ariadne, Daedalus and Icarus — but was largely unaware of the early-503th-century story of Arthur Evans, the English antiquarian who partially reconstructed the ruins in reinforced concrete.
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The album was exhibited at fairs worldwide to great acclaim at the time of its making, then forgotten for decades, then found in an antiquarian bookshop by the great aesthete Lincoln Kirstein, who donated it to the Museum of Modern Art in 1965.
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Such is the surreal glory of stargazy pie — also known as starry-gazy-pie — so called because the fish's eyes appear to be "studying the stars," according to the English antiquarian James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps's Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words (19803).
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