2020 ABAA New York International Antiquarian Book Fair Press Coverage

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International Antiquarian

BookFair 2020 PRESS March 5-8

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THE 60TH ANNUAL NEW YORK INTERNATIONAL ANTIQUARIAN BOOK FAIR PULL QUOTES “Carrying bibliophiles across time and space—without anyone having to leave the building—the Park Avenue Armory hosts the fair’s 60th anniversary edition.”

Air Mail “Fascinating treasure trove.”

- Alt 92.3 “Universally referred to as the world’s finest antiquarian book fair, NYIABF is the highlight of the spring calendar for bibliophiles, collectors of the curious and quirky, scholars, connoisseurs and enthusiastic laymen alike.”

- Art & Object “Considered one of the year’s premier events for bibliophiles, the book fair drew nearly 9,000 people last year, both serious collectors and casual browsers alike.”

- Mareesa Nicosia, Penta “For the bibliophiles out there, the Antiquarian Book Fair is an absolute must.”

- Marina Felix, Business at Home, by Editor at Large “Fascinating treasure trove.”

- Fine Books & Collections “In this digital age, rare books may seem like a sleepy trend from a bygone era. But the art of rarebook collecting is alive and well, and nowhere is it more evident than in the New York International Antiquarian Book Fair.”

- Lucy Rees, Galerie “Robust in the face of fluctuations.”

- Ed Stocker, Monocle “International Antiquarian Book Fair attracts celebs like Johnny Depp.”

- Cindy Adams, New York Post “A globally recognized institution.”

- Christopher Cameron, New York Post “A bounty of time portals.”

- The Guardian

“The most important event on international book dealers’ calendar.”

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The Magazine Antiques

“This fair is for you if you’re in it for the history.”

- The New York Times “The world’s premier antiquarian book fair.”

- The New York Times “It’s a kind of Woodstock for the ultra-bookish, where museum-like displays of stunningly bound 16th-century volumes and illuminated manuscripts are surrounded by booths specializing in rare maps, historical documents, vintage crime novels, counterculture ephemera and just about anything else, as long as it’s (mostly) on paper.”

- Jennifer Schuessler, The New York Times “While Netflix and HBO Go might be slowly killing off your kind, the ABAA New York International Book Fair is here to bring you back to life.”

- Rachel Peltz, Thrillist “Continuing to happily disprove the rhetoric that print has had its day.”

- Tilly Macalister-Smith, Wallpaper*

MARCH 6, 2020

Expensive World Trade Center blueprints up for sale at New York City book fair

UPPER EAST SIDE, Manhattan (WABC) -- A symbolic part of New York City is up for sale, but it's going to cost you.

Blueprints for the original World Trade Center are being offered at the New York International Antiquarian Book Fair.

The fair runs through Sunday, March 8, at the Park Avenue Armory.

The seller says the set includes more than 500 plans and are the largest blueprints for the twin towers ever put up for sale.

Although the exact value is not being disclosed, the price is at least six figures. https://abc7ny.com/5992152/

MARCH 6, 2020

Blueprints for the original World Trade Center are on sale Blueprints for the original World Trade Center are on sale until Sunday at the New York International Antiquarian Book Fair NEW YORK (AP) — Blueprints for the original World Trade Center are on sale at the New York International Antiquarian Book Fair after a Colorado man rescued them from the trash.

The set, which includes over 500 plans, is the largest for the Twin Towers ever offered for sale, according to the New York-based James Cummins Bookseller team. Cummins wouldn’t disclose the price but said it is in the six figures.

The 9/11 Memorial & Museum said it does not have a full set of blueprints, and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey said it’s unsure if it has one. Many documents were lost in the Sept.

11, 2001 attacks.

The blueprints first left New York in the 1970s when architect Joseph Solomon took them to Denver as a keepsake of his career, the Wall Street Journal reported.

His daughter, Amy Lee Solomon, threw the plans out in May 2018 while cleaning out her father’s belongings after his death in November 2017, not realizing their potential value Denver-area resident Jake Haas found what he thought were antique maps in the trash and stopped to collect them.

After seeing references to “Tower A” and “Tower B” Haas realized what the documents were and later sold the set to Angelo Arguello, who owns three pawnshops in the Denver area.

Arguello reached out to Cummins, which is handling the sale on a consignment basis, to ensure the blueprints get the exposure they merit.

Amy Lee Solomon said she is grateful that her father’s contribution to a New York landmark is being acknowledged.

“This was the quintessential project of his life,” she said.

The New York International Antiquarian Book Fair runs until Sunday and is held at the Park Avenue Armory in Manhattan. https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/blueprints-original-world-trade-center-sale-69437193

February 24, 2020

The Orchid Dinner Wows, Kim Radovich Announces Design Retreat, and More News in New York Here’s what you need to know

By Tim Latterner

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The New York design world is always busy. Staying up-to-date on all the news can be tough, which is why we’re here to give you the news roundup for New York, a one-stop shop for everything you need to know. https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/the-orchid-dinner-wows-kimradovich-announces-design-retreat-and-more-news-in-new-york

Party of the Week The Orchid Dinner Supported NYBG’s Annual Show Last Wednesday, design lovers and decorators converged on The Plaza Hotel for the annual Orchid Dinner to celebrate the New York Botanical Garden’s Orchid Show. Several designers made the table scapes and arrangements that decorated the event. “We are ecstatic to participate in the Orchid Dinner this year,” designer Tim Green told AD PRO before the affair. “The event is one of the most renowned in our business, and we are thrilled to have so many amazing sponsors to support our table.”

Events Kim Radovich Announces Dates for Second Design Retreat On June 4 and 5, designer and former ASID NY Metro president Kim Radovich will host her second design retreat at the Harbor Hill Estate on Long Island. After a successful first edition last spring, Radovich will once again welcome designers to the estate to learn how to take their businesses to new heights. The retreat will include workshops, talks, and time to unwind. Tickets are $975, and includes programming, meals, cocktails, and a gift bag. Guests can register here.

Phillips to Host Panel Discussion About Architect and Designer Eileen Gray On Saturday, February 29, the Phillips auction house at 450 Park Avenue will host a panel discussion about architect and designer Eileen Gray. The panel will feature Esther da Costa Meyer of Princeton University, Jared Goss of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Cloé Pitiot of Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris. Phillips’s senior advisor and director emeritus, Arnold Lehman, will moderate the discussion. The event will begin at 11 a.m.

New York International Antiquarian Book Fair Returns Next Week The New York International Antiquarian Book Fair will return to the Park Avenue Armory on March 5. The fair, celebrating its 60th anniversary this year, will feature more than 200 exhibitors. “Many of the book fair dealers sell old pattern and fabric books, something you might see in a home decor store or a tailor, that come from the late 1900s and early 20th century,” show producer Sanford Smith tells AD PRO. “Many interior and fashion designers buy these items in hopes of recreating or repurposing them, serving as inspiration for new trends or a resurgence of old ones. You’ll find that many of these items at the fair are from major designers back in the day.” The show will run from March 5 to 8. https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/the-orchid-dinner-wows-kimradovich-announces-design-retreat-and-more-news-in-new-york

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Sims Reed, Dada Documents. Courtesy of Park Avenue Armory

ABBA New York International Antiquarian Book Fair March 5–8, 2020 “That’s the thing about books,” writes Jhumpa Lahiri in her novel of 1993, The Namesake. “They let you travel without moving your feet.” Carrying bibliophiles across time and space—without anyone having to leave the building—the Park Avenue Armory hosts the fair’s 60th anniversary edition. Rare books, maps, and manuscripts spanning continents, eras, and specialties are the bounty of dealers who’ve come from all over the world. —J.V. Park Avenue Armory 643 Park Ave, New York, NY 10065 https://airmail.news/arts-intel/events/abba-new-york-international-antiquarianbook-fair-2035

MARCH 5, 2020

How a rare pointe shoe landed at New York’s Antiquarian Book Fair

By Britt Stigler At the New York International Antiquarian Book Fair, not all treasures have spines. One such unbound rarity takes the form of a pointe shoe, signed by prima ballerina assoluta Margot Fonteyn, famed principal of the Royal Ballet. Her large and legible signature stretches across the pink satin top of the shoe, with the date “1966” punctuating the sprawling text. Given the English ballerina’s superstar status, her autograph alone would be enough to elicit bids from collectors (a single pair has fetched thousands in the past). But what makes the object stand out is that Fonteyn’s name is not the only one that appears on the shoe.

Scribbled on the side, just near the heel, is the signature of Russian dancer Rudolf Nureyev, arguably one of the world’s greatest male dancers. Famously, the two artists formed a careerdefining partnership that spanned the 1960s and ‘70s, making it so that their legacies — like the signatures on the shoe — became forever entwined.

Pointe shoe signed by Margot Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyev. Photo: Tamino Autographs.

The shoe is now under the care of Nestor Masckauchan, founder of Tamino Autographs. The “highly desirable” collectable — currently listed online for $4,995 — will be available for purchase at the 60th annual New York International Antiquarian Book Fair, which takes over the Park Avenue Armory’s immense Wade Thompson Drill Hall from March 5-8. Over the phone, the collector explained that the double signature marks a rare entry into the archives. https://allarts.org/2019/03/treasures-of-the-new-york-international-antiquarian-book-fair/

“It’s a rarity. They danced a lot together; they were friends and partners in business and art, but they did not sign a lot of shoes together,” Masckauchan said. “I have seen several shoes of Nureyev alone, and I have seen of her as well, but not really together. I actually have another shoe that is only signed by Nureyev. But together, it’s a bit rare. He died young, and he did not sign a lot of shoes. In the last 14 years, I have seen maybe three shoes signed by him.”

Pointe shoe signed by Margot Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyev. Photo: Tamino Autographs.

Masckauchan currently possesses the shoe on consignment from a collector who purchased it at an auction several years back. The auction house told the collector that the shoe was previously owned by a friend of Fonteyn. As the story goes, the ballerina gifted the collectable after a performance in San Francisco, surprising her friend with the addition of Nureyev’s signature. The shoe, made by Fred K. Freed, was never worn in a performance, leaving it in pristine condition. https://allarts.org/2019/03/treasures-of-the-new-york-international-antiquarian-book-fair/

When asked how to know if autographs such as this example are real, Masckauchan explained that provenance is key. In the case of the pointe shoe, being able to draw a lineage from Fonteyn to the ultimate buyer was vital to ensuring the authenticity. And while receiving an autograph first-hand is the absolute preference, Masckauchan noted that the practice of shuffling backstage to snag an autograph has shifted in recent decades, with performance houses opting for pre-arranged signings over spontaneous procurement.

“A lot of the charm that existed in the past is gone because things are changing,” Masckauchan said, speaking about autographs broadly. “Music and books are changing. Now everything is going digital, so that changed the entire world.”

In 2006, Masckauchan, a biochemist by profession, began selling his own small collection of opera and classical music autographs on Ebay, getting rid of duplicates he had acquired since he began sourcing them as a teenager. The gig was supposed to be temporary while he looked for other jobs, but after he launched a website to buy and sell autographs himself, he didn’t look back.

Masckauchan now works with prized institutions like the Metropolitan Opera and Julliard, and he has since expanded his expertise to include other areas, such as film, literature, science and politics.

Outside of what is secured in his personal collection, everything that he buys, he sells.

“When I started the company, I said, well, if I do this professionally, and I don’t go back to the laboratory to work as a scientist, I made myself promise that everything would be on the market and that everything would be for sale,” he said. “And that is still the rule 14 years later.

This stipulation, strict in its execution, has meant that there have been times when the collector had to list something that he would have liked to keep for himself. What to do in these cases?

“I cheat a little bit because I make a higher price when I don’t want to sell something,” he said with a laugh, explaining that the tactic usually works well as a deterrent. But there are still times when this does not pan out the way he’d like. A photo of Maria Callas, for example, escaped his grasp when this strategy fell through — though he hopes that one day he might have the chance to buy it back.

“I loved it, and at first I made a copy of it, and I put the copy in a frame for a few months, but then I thought that was not a good idea,” he said. “I had sold it, and I had to look at the copy all the time, and I knew it was a copy, so I had to remove it — the entire frame. Up to this day, I do know who has it, and I do know that one day I may recover it.”

For now, Masckauchan will continue to seek out and sell what he knows to be treasures, despite the risk of heartbreak. “There are some things that I really cherish,” he said. “And I would regret it if somebody bought them, and that sometimes has happened.” For those select prized items, he refrains from posting them online, choosing to store them in his office while he can: “I keep them here for enjoyment, and I see them every day.”

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MARCH 4, 2020

New York International Antiquarian Book Fair

Event Description: New York International Antiquarian Book Fair Book lovers will find a fascinating treasure trove at the Park Avenue Armory. Over 200 American and international dealers will exhibit at The ABAA New York International Antiquarian Book Fair, and bring a vast selection of rare books, maps, manuscripts, illuminated manuscripts and ephemera. The diversity of specialties includes art, medicine, literature, photography, autographs, first editions, Americana, and much more.

• Thursday: 5 - 9 pm • Friday: 12 - 8 pm • Saturday: 12 - 7 pm • Sunday: 12 - 5 pm Thursday, Mar 5th - Sunday, Mar 8th Park Avenue Armory $25 Tags: Book Fair https://alt923.radio.com/events/new-york-international-antiquarian-book-fair

MARCH 2, 2020

Antiquarian Book Fair is returning to the Upper East Side this week

By Gabe Herman

For collectors and the curious alike, the New York International Antiquarian Book Fair will be running later this week on the Upper East Side. This will be the 60th anniversary of the Book Fair, which runs from March 5-8 at Park Avenue Armory, 643 Park Ave.

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The Fair will offer rare books, manuscripts, historical documents, maps and more, on a wide variety of topics and for a range of prices, from over 200 American and international dealers. It is sanctioned by the Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association of America (ABAA) and International League of Antiquarian Booksellers.

“The New York Book Fair is probably the most important book fair in the global book fair calendar,” said Donald Heald, Treasurer for the Mid Atlantic Chapter of the ABAA. Ha said it’s the most highly attended antiquarian book fair in the U.S., drawing about 8,900 people last year and expecting a similar or higher turnout this year.

Heald noted materials at the Fair will be on a wide variety of topics and fields, and not only older subjects but books on topics related to recent decades and up to the present day. “It’s a very interesting group of people, the booksellers are very diverse,” he said. “It’s a great mix of material.”

A photo of Albert Einstein, signed and with a poem he wrote which reads: “Whenever we hatched a plot, The Old Man stuck out his tongue. But our old friendship, here and there, Has survived all the storms. Comrade Ladenburg, With heartfelt greetings, A. Einstein 1939.” It is on a photograph signed to his early supporter and friend, Rudolf Ladenburg. (Courtesy NYIABF)

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While the fair draws plenty of serious collectors and librarian groups, Heald noted, different age groups attend and can potentially find something to buy for as little as $10, to go alongside more expensive items like a signed book or item related to Shakespeare or The Federalist Papers that could go for hundreds of thousands of dollars. “People of all ages come through,” Heald said.

Eric Carle, “The Very Hungry Caterpillar.” New York: The World Publishing Company, 1969.

First edition, first printing, first issue. Signed “with love” and with a doodle by Eric Carle on the verso of the title-spread. (Courtesy NYIABF) The first Fair was held in 1959, and has now been at the Park Avenue Armory for nearly 30 years.

Despite all the potential digital distractions of modern times, attendance is up nearly 50 percent in the last few years, Heald said, noting there is still great appeal in handling items in person.

“There really isn’t a substitute of the serendipity of going to a fair or bookshop and looking through and seeing something,” he said. “And suddenly you have a new interest or you learn something.”

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6 — Antiques and The Arts Weekly — March 6, 2020

NY International Antiquarian Book Fair Celebrates 60th Year NEW YORK CITY — The New York International Antiquarian Book Fair (NYIABF) — officially sanctioned by Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association of America (ABAA) and International League of Antiquarian Booksellers (ILAB) and produced by Sanford L. Smith + Associates — is celebrating its landmark 60th anniversary edition at the Park Avenue Armory March 5-8. Universally referred to as the world’s finest antiquarian book fair, NYIABF is the highlight of the spring calendar for bibliophiles, collectors of the curious and quirky, scholars, connoisseurs and enthusiastic laymen alike. More than 200 exhibitors will present a vast treasure trove of material: rare books, maps, illuminated manuscripts, incunabula, fine bindings, illustrations, historical documents, rare prints and print ephemera.

The fair’s specialties encompass art, science, medicine, literature, history, gastronomy, fashion, first editions, Americana, philosophy, children’s books and much more. From the historic and academic, the religious and spiritual to the bedrock of secular culture, finance, politics, the fair boasts offerings in every conceivable genre and subject.

In recent years, NYIABF has increasingly captured the attention of young collectors seeking unique offerings at more accessible price points. Prices range from $50 to $1 million.

“Mrs Tabitha’s Cats’ Academy.” Courtesy of Battledore Ltd.

Carte Felicite, 1743. Courtesy of Boston Rare Maps.

Spanning Pre-Gutenberg To Twenty-First Century At The Park Avenue Armory March 5-8 In addition to 109 US booksellers, NYIABF enjoys strong international participation, with booksellers hailing from the United Kingdom (39), France (19), Germany (eight), Italy (eight), The Netherlands (five), Austria (four), Argentina (three), Switzerland (three), Spain (two), Denmark (two), Canada (two) and Japan (two), and one each from Australia, Belgium, Czech Republic, Hungary and Sweden.

Preview night is Thursday, March 5, 5-9 pm. Daily hours are Friday, March 6, noon-8 pm; Saturday, March 7, noon-7 pm; and Sunday, March 8, noon-5 pm.

A special event — Discovery Day — is set for Sunday, March 8, 1-3 pm. A NYIABF tradition, Discovery Day offers ticketed visitors the opportunity to bring their own rare books, manuscripts, maps, etc. (up to five

Lennon Ono Strawberry Fields Central Park document archive. Courtesy of Schubertiade. items). Exhibitors will be on hand to offer expert advice and free appraisals.

A preview pass costs $60 (Includes one daily re-admission). Daily admission is $25; students, $10 (with valid ID —

at the door only); run of show, $45 (at the door only).

Park Avenue Armory is at 643 Park Avenue. For information, www.nyantiquarianbookfair. com, www.sanfordsmith.com or 212-777-5218.

Glory Of Spain In Houston

HOUSTON — The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH), presents “Glory of Spain: Treasures from the Hispanic Society Museum & Library,” an international traveling exhibition that marks the first time a comprehensive selection of the Hispanic Society Museum & Library’s collection has been exhibited. The MFAH presentation will be on view through May 25.

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Unparalleled outside of Spain, the collections of the New York City-based Hispanic Society Museum & Library focus on the art and culture of Spain, Portugal, Latin America, and the Philippines, from antiquity up until the early Twentieth Century. This exhibition presents some 200 objects — paintings, drawings, sculpture, illuminated manuscripts, maps, textiles, porcelains and ceramics and metalwork and jewelry — spanning more than 4,000 years of Hispanic art and culture. It is organized into six sections: Antiquity in Spain, Medieval Spain, Golden Age Spain, Viceregal and Nineteenth Century Latin America, Enlightenment in Spain, and Modern Spain.

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Spain, extensively illustrates the ancient history of the Iberian Peninsula. The exhibition begins with an impressive group of metalwork from the Celtiberian culture (circa 150– 72 BCE), including silver bracelets, torques and fibula.

As the Roman Empire declined, Sueves, Vandals and Visigoths occupied the Iberian Peninsula, with the Visigoths ultimately dominating and establishing their capital in Toledo in the Fifth Century.

Under the rule of the Christianized Visigoths, art in the form of metalwork, mostly jewelry and buckles, and stone reliefs provides a glimpse into the culture of this originally Germanic people, who kept themselves largely separate from their Iberian subjects. The ascendancy of Islam is documented through remarkable sculpture, ivories, ceramics, textiles and metalwork.

The largest section of the exhibition is devoted to the Spanish Golden Age, a period of approximately 150 years from the mid-Sixteenth to the late Seventeenth Century that witnessed the expansion of Spain’s empire to the New World and the flourishing of Spanish art under the patronage of the Spanish Habsburg dynasty and the Spanish Empire. It was during this period that such masters as Diego Velázquez, Francisco de Zurbarán, Bartolomé Esteban Murillo and Jusepe de Ribera painted their celebrated works.

Following the 1521 colonization of New Spain, which included territories in North America, South America, Asia and Oceania, many Spanish artists immigrated to Latin America, part of the new

Seville, plate, circa 1500, earthenware with cuerda seca decoration, the Hispanic Society of America. empire, between the Seventeenth and Nineteenth Centuries. Among the most exceptional was the Andalusian Mannerist artist Alonso Vázquez, who arrived in Mexico in 1603 as the official painter to the newly appointed viceroy, Juan de Mendoza y Luna, third Marquess of Montesclaros. The earliest known of his paintings, Saint Sebastian, circa 1605, is on view in this section.

Works from the late Eighteenth Century include a newly discovered masterwork by José Campeche, Puerto Rico’s foremost artist of the Colonial era; and an exceptional map of Mexico City by the architect and surveyor Ignacio Castera, who undertook the creation of the

Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes), The Duchess of Alba, 1797, oil on canvas, the Hispanic Society of America.

map in 1778.

As Spain’s artists began to travel and train abroad in the Eighteenth and eventually the Nineteenth Century in Paris and Rome, their work became influenced by the major movements of these periods: Neoclassicism, Romanticism, Realism and Impressionism. The Society’s most celebrated painting, Francisco de Goya y Lucientes’s portrait, “The Duchess of Alba, María de Pilar Teresa Cayetana de Silva Álvarez de Toledo” from 1797, is one of the two major paintings the artist completed of the duchess.

The work of Goya, represented in the Society’s collections by paintings, drawings and nearly all of his engravings, here establishes a context for the paintings of later, modern artists, including Federico de Madrazo y Kuntz, Eugenio Lucas Velázquez, Joaquín de Sorolla y Bastida and Ignacio Zuloaga, represented in this exhibition. The works reveal their experimentation with avant garde styles applied to distinctly Spanish subject matter.

The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, is at 1001 Bissonnet Street. For information, 713639-7300 or www.mfah.org.

MARCH 17, 2020

NYC’s Premier Antiquarian Book Fair Turns A Page: Event Marks 60th Year Milestone

By W.A. Demers

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Sanford L, Smith, who has managed the fair for three decades, gives a thumbs up as the event opens.

Review and Photos by W.A. Demers NEW YORK CITY – It is the direct antithesis of a duct-taped banana on a wall. Universally referred to as the world’s finest antiquarian book fair, the New York International Antiquarian Book Fair, which ran at the Park Avenue Armory, March 5-8, is the cerebral destination for bibhttps://www.antiquesandthearts.com/nycs-premier-antiquarian-book-fair-turnsa-page-event-marks-60th-year-milestone/

liophiles, scholars, museum professionals and those collectors who seek out the rare or quirky.

Here, spread out among more than 165 booths, 211 exhibitors from around the globe presented rare books, maps, illuminated manuscripts, incunabula, fine bindings, illustrations, historical documents, rare prints and print ephemera.

The show is always a much-anticipated event, and this year it marked a milestone, its 60th anniversary. There were some headwinds as New York City, the United States at large and the rest of the world grappled with the uncertainty caused by the rapidly spreading coronavirus pandemic. Standing like sentries on either side of the show entrance were two hand-sanitizer stations.

Some greetings and hellos were accompanied by “elbow-bumps” and other curious gestures, and there was much mention of the virus since New York had just announced its first confirmed case of COVID-19 a few days ago before. But the fair was business as usual despite the uncertainty.

David Brass, a rare bookseller from Calabasas, Calif., said, “The 2020 New York Book Fair was extremely well attended – certainly close to the same numbers as last year – even with the dark shadow of coronavirus. From a personal perspective, we bought well and sold well. Sandy Smith does a wonderful job of promoting and running what is most definitely now the premier book fair of the year.”

Brass’s sentiments were echoed by several other dealers contacted after the four-day show had wound down. The show’s chairman, Donald Heald, whose exhibit is itself filled with rare gems such as an 1824 album of botanicals by Pierre Joseph Redoute and a fundamental hand-colored work by Louis Choris on Alaska, California and Hawaii, was set up hard by the show’s entrance.

He said, “The show went well and we were pleased, even though attendance was incrementally a bit down from last year.” Heald ticked off opening night visits by representatives from such institutions as Duke University, the New York Public Library, a committee from the Society of Cincinnati and Mount Vernon. “Sales were brisk,” he added, even for his own material, including a good Chinese military manuscript and a 1477 incunabula.

Buzz on the show floor this year was centered around a set of blueprints for the World Trade Center towers that had been rescued from a Denver, Colo., trash pile. They were being offered by James Cummins Bookseller, a Manhattan-based dealer of rare books and autographs, with a $250,000 price tag revealed by the dealer during the show’s Thursday evening preview. The subject of a Wall Street Journal article, the find got good press and sold during the show, according to show producer and manager Sandy Smith.

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Two rare tomes on offer at Donald Heald Rare Books, New York City — left, the 1824 album of botanicals by Pierre Joseph Redoute and a fundamental hand-colored work by Louis Choris on Alaska, California and Hawaii, characterized as “one of the most beautiful books of travel in existence.”

“It was amazing,” said Smith regarding the show’s success, “I expected that we’d get half the attendance of last year, but we were down only about 1 percent, with a steady flow of people both Saturday and Sunday. They were a little reluctant to spend money, though, due to the stock market.” This observation was borne out by Owen Kubik of Kubik Fine Books, Dayton, Ohio, who related, “One collector told me he had lost a million dollars in the market that week and wasn’t in much of a mood to spend. This seemed fairly common – people were interested and engaged but reluctant to pull the trigger.

“Our Books for Budding Collectors section of books under $400 did quite well.”

Attending the fair with remarkable examples ranging from Shakespeare to Homer and Harry Potter was London’s Peter Harrington, one of the word’s largest rare booksellers. Along with the Bard’s Third Folio – Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies (1663), the firm’s Pom Harrington was offering the first printed edition of the works of Homer (1488/89) including the Illiad and the Odyssey, as well as the first paperback edition of the first Harry Potter book (1997), which appeared at the same time as the hardback edition. The third folio edition of Shakespeare’s plays is generally regarded as the rarest of the Seventeenth Century folio editions. An unknown number of copies are thought to have been destroyed in the Great Fire of London of 1666.

New York City dealer Enluminures brought a selection of manuscripts that showcase its varied inventory, including a rare Eleventh Century manuscript, medieval Bibles and, especially for this show, books made and used by women. One such example was a customized processional for Dominican nuns by the Master of Girard Acarie in Latin and French. The illuminated manuscript on parchment bound into 69 folios had a range of dates from 1520 to 1674 because, the dealer explained, it was a work in progress. Additional highlights were five silk prayer books that had been woven in the late Nineteenth Century on Jacquard looms and were modeled on medieval manuscripts.

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“We were pleased that the threat of the coronavirus didn’t deter most visitors to the fair and except for perhaps a slightly less busy opening night preview, we would say attendance was as usual,” said Justin G. Schiller of Battledore, Kingston, N.Y. “The two items we showed that attracted constant attention was the Christmas Eve 1944 menu for dinner with the American troops in northern China hosting the Red Army, including the handwritten signatures of Chairman Mao Zedong, Zhu De, Zhou Enlai, Lin Piao and others. There were four additional letters by Mao and other senior officers to the American commandant thanking them for their hospitality and introducing Christmas to their cultural experience. The second item was a huge German sample book of machine-manufactured lace, more than 2,000 examples, dating about 1910-15, absolutely complete with inventory numbers and nothing cut out.”

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At William Reese Company, New Haven, Conn., Bay Psalm Book, London, 1644, the first printing of any part of it outside North America.

Alan Zipkin of Derringer Books, Woodbridge, Conn., who focuses on art, poetry and photography, said, “The show was very well attended, and pretty much every one of my colleagues expressed having favorable experiences at the show. A nice mix of institutional librarians, fellow dealers and, of course, the public showed up in great numbers this week for which we are all grateful.”

Zipkin brought a trove of original photographs and correspondence from the family of Zoe Brown. Born in 1927, Brown was an enthusiastic and dedicated photographer who worked as an assistant to famed American photographer Dorothea Lange. There were three prints on offer by Zipkin that had come out of Brown’s darkroom, and Brown’s daughter Maggie said that the fact that they were not signed suggests they were an informal gift from Lange to her mother. Likely printed in the 1950s, “Woman of the High Plains, Texas Panhandle,” one of the photographer’s most expressive photos, made originally for the Farm Security Administration, was a sale for the dealer.

Selling across the board from high-end to mid-level works was Jeff Bergman, a Fort Lee, N.J., bookseller who said he’s done this show for at least 13 or 14 years. “Best in the world, and New https://www.antiquesandthearts.com/nycs-premier-antiquarian-book-fair-turnsa-page-event-marks-60th-year-milestone/

York City is the best venue in the world,” he said. One of his notable books was a copy of We Seven, the heroic story of the pioneer Mercury astronauts who risked their lives for America’s first manned space voyages. It was inscribed by all seven members of that storied team. He sold a copy of John Steinbeck’s East of Eden, a signed copy of An American Life, the 1990 autobiography of former US President Ronald Reagan, as well as children’s books like How the Grinch Stole Christmas and Cricket in Times Square.

A notable tome being offered by Bauman Rare Books, New York City, was Thomas Jefferson’s personal copy of Vols VI and VII of the Laws of the United States, 1803, 1805. With Jefferson’s characteristic ownership marks, annotations and marginalia, it provided some insight into the acts of the Seventh and Eight Congresses as well as the Louisiana Purchase Treaty.

While rare books and photographs dominated, not everything showcased was bound in calfskin or framed. Federal period embroidery patterns descended in a Maryland family were highlights in the booth Franklin::Gilliam Rare Books of Charlottesville, Va. These were used for household fabrics, according to Mary Cooper Gilliam. Descended in the Clopper family, the archive comprised 59 pen-and-ink patterns and two numbered lithographic fragments of various sizes. Although creased, some stained and some bearing tears, all the images are sufficiently complete to show the intended pattern. Anyone who is familiar with Betty Ring’s Girlhood Embroidery will recall that the institution attended by Ellen Maria Clopper (1811-1868), St Joseph’s Academy in Emmitsburg, Md, became famous for the quality of the needlework done by its students.

There was additional good news following the conclusion of the fair. Smith signed a six-year contract with the show’s official sponsor, the Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association of America, so will return for its 61st edition in 2021. For information, www.nybookfair.com or 212-777-5218.

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MARCH 6, 2020

Blueprints for the original World Trade Center are on sale NEW YORK (AP) — Blueprints for the original World Trade Center are on sale at the New York International Antiquarian Book Fair after a Colorado man rescued them from the trash.

The set, which includes over 500 plans, is the largest for the Twin Towers ever offered for sale, according to the New York-based James Cummins Bookseller team. Cummins wouldn’t disclose the price but said it is in the six figures.

The 9/11 Memorial & Museum said it does not have a full set of blueprints, and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey said it’s unsure if it has one. Many documents were lost in the Sept.

11, 2001 attacks.

The blueprints first left New York in the 1970s when architect Joseph Solomon took them to Denver as a keepsake of his career, the Wall Street Journal reported.

His daughter, Amy Lee Solomon, threw the plans out in May 2018 while cleaning out her father’s belongings after his death in November 2017, not realizing their potential value Denver-area resident Jake Haas found what he thought were antique maps in the trash and stopped to collect them.

After seeing references to “Tower A” and “Tower B” Haas realized what the documents were and later sold the set to Angelo Arguello, who owns three pawnshops in the Denver area.

Arguello reached out to Cummins, which is handling the sale on a consignment basis, to ensure the blueprints get the exposure they merit.

Amy Lee Solomon said she is grateful that her father’s contribution to a New York landmark is being acknowledged.

“This was the quintessential project of his life,” she said.

The New York International Antiquarian Book Fair runs until Sunday and is held at the Park Avenue Armory in Manhattan. https://apnews.com/bca7dc2597bc0c9cad38a8f0af2582d4

MARCH 10, 2020

World Trade Center Blueprints Pulled from Trash up for Sale

By Alexander Walter

Image: James Cummins Bookseller

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“Blueprints for the original World Trade Center have gone on sale at the New York International Antiquarian Book Fair on Friday after a Colorado man pulled them out of the trash. The set of plans for sale represents the largest floor plan of the Twin Towers complex ever offered for sale, according to the New York-based Janes Cummins Bookseller. Cummins told the Associated Press that he expected the sale to be in the six figures”. — DW According to the Wall Street Journal, the plan set includes over 500 original plans from the 1960s and once belonged to Joseph Solomon, one of the World Trade Center architects.

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The Twin Towers at the NYC World Trade Center in 2001, shortly before the September 11 attack. Photo: Carol M. Highsmith.

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MARCH 3, 2020

Antiquarian Book Fair Features One of a Kind Rarities

HONEY & WAX BOOKSELLERS: Oracle Fan NEW YORK (NY): The New York International Antiquarian Book Fair (NYIABF)— officially sanctioned by Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America (ABAA) and International League of Antiquarian Booksellers (ILAB) and produced by Sanford L. Smith + Associates—is proud to celebrate its benchmark 60th Anniversary Edition at the Park Avenue Armory from March 5-8, 2020. Universally referred to as the world’s finest antiquarian book fair, NYIABF is the highlight of the spring calendar for bibliophiles, collectors of the curious and quirky, scholars, connoisseurs and enthusiastic laymen alike. More than 200 exhibitors will present a vast treasure trove of material: rare books, maps, illuminated manuscripts, incunabula, fine bindings, illustrations, historical documents, rare prints and print ephemera.

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courtesy BROMER BOOKSELLERS J. de Pian and L. MĂźller, Vienna, 1842-44, Architectural picture alphabet. Twenty-six color lithographs, each of which has a large letter of the alphabet fully incorporated as part of the internal decoration or architectural structure of various buildings, set in realistic landscapes. The buildings range from traditional European domestic architecture to exotic Babylonian and Egyptian temples, Moorish mosques, Indian porticoes adorned with stone elephants, and a Chinese palace. The illustrations directly reference many periods and styles of art and architecture, including the Classical, Baroque, Eclectic, Gothic, and Romantic movements.

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The fair’s specialties encompass art, science, medicine, literature, history, gastronomy, fashion, First editions, Americana, philosophy, children’s books and much more. From the historic and academic, the religious and spiritual—to the bedrock of secular culture, finance, politics—the fair boasts offerings in every conceivable genre and subject.

In recent years, NYIABF has increasingly captured the attention of young collectors seeking unique offerings at more accessible price points. Prices range from $50-$1,000,000.

In its 60th Anniversary Edition, NYIABF continues to uphold the finest tradition of material culled from American and international antiquarian booksellers. In addition to 10 U.S. book-sellers, NYIABF enjoys strong international participation with booksellers hailing from the United Kingdom (38), France (19), Germany (8), Italy (8), The Netherlands (5), Austria (4), Argentina (3), Switzerland (3), Spain (2), Denmark (2), Canada (2), Japan (2), Australia (1), Belgium (1), Czech Republic (1), Hungary (1) and Sweden (1).

See a list of exhibitors here.

Press Preview Thursday, March 5 | 4pm Preview Night Thursday, March 5 | 5pm-9pm Daily Hours Friday, March 6 | 12pm-8pm Saturday, March 7 | 12pm – 7pm Sunday, March 8 | 12pm-5pm

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courtesy PRYOR-JOHNSON RARE BOOKS Eric Carle, The Very Hungry Caterpillar. New York: The World Publishing Company, 1969. First edition, first printing, first issue. Signed “with love” and with a doodle by Eric Carle on the verso of the title-spread. Through correspondence with the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art, we have confirmed that our item is a true first issue of the first edition, which was printed in Japan, as indicated by several points. Collated perfect with Carle’s own copy (described in the Grolier Children’s 100).

Special Event - Discovery Day Sunday, March 8 | 1pm-3pm A NYIABF tradition, Discovery Day offers ticketed visitors the opportunity to bring their own rare books, manuscripts, maps, etc. (up to 5 items) Exhibitors will be on hand to offer expert advice and free appraisals.

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-Preview Pass: $60 (Includes one daily re-admission) Daily Admission: $25 Students: $10 (with valid ID - at the door only)\ Run of Show: $45 (at door only) -Location Park Avenue Armory 643 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10065 www.armoryonpark.org -New York International Antiquarian Book Fair www.nyantiquarianbookfair.com About Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association of America (ABAA) The Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America was founded in 1949 to promote interest in rare and antiquarian books and book collecting, and to foster collegial relations. We strive to maintain the highest standards in the trade. All members agree to abide by the ABAA's Code of Ethics. While our members sell, buy, and appraise books and printed matter, our staff can assist you with finding a bookseller and with other trade-related matters.

International League of Antiquarian Booksellers (ILAB) International League of Antiquarian Booksellers whose official languages are English and French, is a non-profit organization, with its legal location in Geneva. ILAB represents twenty-two national rare book associations representing thirty-six countries and around 1,800 individual affiliates worldwide. It strives to uphold and improve professional standards in the trade, to promote honorable conduct in business, and to contribute in various ways to a broader appreciation of the history and art of the book. ILAB affiliates share a worldwide reputation for high quality, knowledge, expertise and experience and adhere to ILAB's Code of Usages and Customs.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2020

New York International Antiquarian Book Fair celebrates its 60th anniversary at the Park Avenue Armory March 5-8

By Jose Villarreal

Flammarion, Paris, 2019. First edition. Octavo, polymer binding decorated with a designed of stamped and silver leather and silver buttons, title stamped in red on upper cover, black leather back, liners of red suede, wrappers bound in, fitting chemise and slipcase (by Atelier la Feuille d'Or). One of 200 deluxe copies on vélin Rivoli paper from Arjowiggins, in a very inventive modern binding by the French master binder Florent Rousseau.

NEW YORK, NY.- The New York International Antiquarian Book Fair—officially sanctioned

by Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America (ABAA) and International League of Antiquarian Booksellers (ILAB) and produced by Sanford L. Smith + Associates—is proud to celebrate its benchmark 60th Anniversary Edition at the Park Avenue Armory from March 5-8, 2020. Universally referred to as the world’s finest antiquarian book fair, NYIABF is the highlight of the spring calendar for bibliophiles, collectors of the curious and quirky, scholars, connoisseurs and enthusiastic laymen alike. More than 200 exhibitors will present a vast treasure trove of material: rare books, maps, illuminated manuscripts, incunabula, fine bindings, illustrations, historical documents, rare prints and print ephemera. http://artdaily.com/news/120807/New-York-International-Antiquarian-Book-Fair-celebratesits-60th-anniversary-at-the-Park-Avenue-Armory-March-5-8-#.XkEi3ReRV0t

The fair’s specialties encompass art, science, medicine, literature, history, gastronomy, fashion, first editions, Americana, philosophy, children’s books and much more. From the historic and academic, the religious and spiritual—to the bedrock of secular culture, finance, politics—the fair boasts offerings in every conceivable genre and subject.

In recent years, NYIABF has increasingly captured the attention of young collectors seeking unique offerings at more accessible price points. Prices range from $50-$1,000,000.

In its 60th Anniversary Edition, NYIABF continues to uphold the finest tradition of material culled from American and international antiquarian booksellers. In addition to 109 U.S. booksellers, NYIABF enjoys strong international participation with booksellers hailing from the United Kingdom (39), France (19), Germany (8), Italy (8), The Netherlands (5), Austria (4), Argentina (3), Switzerland (3), Spain (2), Denmark (2), Canada (2), Japan (2), Australia (1), Belgium (1), Czech Republic (1), Hungary (1) and Sweden (1).

The Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America was founded in 1949 to promote interest in rare and antiquarian books and book collecting, and to foster collegial relations. We strive to maintain the highest standards in the trade. All members agree to abide by the ABAA's Code of Ethics. While our members sell, buy, and appraise books and printed matter, our staff can assist you with finding a bookseller and with other trade-related matters.

International League of Antiquarian Booksellers whose official languages are English and French, is a non-profit organization, with its legal location in Geneva. ILAB represents twentytwo national rare book associations representing thirty-six countries and around 1,800 individual affiliates worldwide. It strives to uphold and improve professional standards in the trade, to promote honorable conduct in business, and to contribute in various ways to a broader appreciation of the history and art of the book. ILAB affiliates share a worldwide reputation for high quality, knowledge, expertise and experience and adhere to ILAB's Code of Usages and Customs.

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MARCH 2, 2020

Editors’ Picks: 17 Things Not to Miss in New York’s Art World This Week From the Armory Party at MoMA to the New York International Antiquarian Book Fair, there's something for everyone this week.

By Sarah Cascone Thursday, March 5—Sunday, March 8

Matisse Picasso. Image courtesy of Honey & Wax Booksellers

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6. New York International Antiquarian Book Fair at the Park Avenue Armory Universally referred to as one of the world’s best antiquarian book fairs, the show is the highlight of the spring calendar for bibliophiles, collectors of the curious and quirky, scholars, connoisseurs, and enthusiastic laymen alike. More than 200 exhibitors will present a vast trove of material: rare books, maps, illuminated manuscripts, incunabula, fine bindings, illustrations, historical documents, rare prints and print ephemera. In addition to regular hours (below), Sunday includes “Discovery Day” from 1 to 3 p.m., where guests can bring up to five treasures to be evaluated by the fair’s experts.

Location: The Park Avenue Armory, 643 Park Avenue Price: Preview night $60; general admission $25 Time: Thursday preview 5 p.m.–9 p.m.; Friday, 12 p.m.–8 p.m.; Saturday 12 p.m.–7 p.m.; Sunday 12 p.m.–5 p.m.

—Eileen Kinsella

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MARCH 2, 2020

For Sale: Sir Thomas More’s Utopian Alphabet The humanist scholar fudged a language into existence.

By Isaac Schultz

The inset map of Utopia, with the accompanying Utopian script (and Latin translation just below it). Courtesy Hordern House

There’s a rhyme and reason to most made-up languages. Tenses and conjugations, turns of phrase and various voices—sometimes constructed languages, or conlangs, are even more complicated than long-extant lingos. Yet others, even when made to represent lofty ideas, are quite crude, with language rules akin to Pig Latin.

That was the case for a language invented by the 16th-century Englishman Sir Thomas More, who satirically envisioned an ideal nation with an insufficient knowledge of linguistics. More printed a map of his fictitious “perfect world,” with a quatrain in “Utopian,” in some early editions of his landmark work of fiction from 1516, Utopia. https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/thomas-more-utopian-alphabet

Now a rare 1518 copy of the book, including the illusory world’s conlang, is for sale and will be presented this week among other very old books at New York City’s International Antiquarian Book Fair. “[Utopia] is an example of that rare thing—a book that has never been out of print since its first publication,” writes Derek McDonnell, founding director of the Sydney-based bookshop Hordern House, via email. “This is the third edition of the text, but the most important of the early editions, as it has the beautiful illustrations and decorations by the two Holbeins [the German painters Ambrosius Holbein and Hans Holbein the Younger].”

Like the satirically perfect nation-state More imagined, the book Utopia was deeply flawed in the eyes of its author, and went through many different editions, sometimes excluding older bits while incorporating new information.

The work wasn’t entirely More’s, as his friend and publisher Desiderius Erasmus added some of his own musings. The unique Utopian alphabet, printed opposite a map of the made-up world, was either the brainchild of More himself or of his friend Pieter Gillis, another humanist printer, who claimed to be responsible for the cryptic language’s inclusion.

Sir Thomas More (left) and his friend Pieter Gillis, who claimed credit for inserting the Utopian alphabet.

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Nor was it the first conlang. That distinction goes to the Lingua Ignota, or “unknown language,” of the famous 12th-century polymath Hildegard of Bingen. But while Hildegard used her script in real life, More’s Utopian was intended only to introduce readers (it appears at the front of the book) to an alien place where religious tolerance and universal education were par for the course. Imagine that. https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/thomas-more-utopian-alphabet

The characters in the Utopian language walk the line between Greek and geometric runes. There is no casing, just large circles, squares, triangles and lines, with various accents attached. It would be gobbledygook if not for its accompanying Latin translation, which speaks to the creation of Utopia and its singularity as a philosophical—and aspirational—place.

“The alphabet reflects a general humanist preoccupation with classical Greek culture,” says Per Sivefors, a literary scholar at Linnaeus University in Sweden who specializes in early modern writing. “A word like gymnosophaon is clearly made up to sound Greek.”

The third edition of Utopia, for sale at $81,000. Courtesy Hordern House

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“Beyond that,” he says, “I believe More and his humanist circle enjoyed using the available technology to explore a fundamental paradox at the heart of the work. The very title of course means ‘nowhere’ [More coined the word “utopia” from the Greek outopos], yet at the same time, the various visual devices, including … the woodcut maps that were in the editions of 1516 and 1518, somehow compel us to see this as a ‘real’ place populated by real people with a real language.”

Perhaps that’s what makes the land of Utopia so compelling: We know a lot about its geography.

The island was located off the coast of South America, More writes, and shaped like a crescent moon about 500 miles around. Like Atlantis or Jurassic Park, the more it feels like a real place— complete with tangible cultural artifacts like a map and a language—the more achievable it seems.

Perhaps More could’ve done with a more Utopian setting himself. His life ended, after all, at the sharp end of an executioner’s axe, after the senior statesman refused to endorse King Henry VIII’s divorce from his first wife, Catherine of Aragon.

Perhaps the rarest edition of Utopia (only six are known), the classic for sale here will boast a price tag of $81,000. A hefty sum for some, but a small price to pay, some would say, for an early musing on what the world could be.

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MARCH 5, 2020

Bibliophiles Delight: The Antiquarian Book Fair Returns to New York This Weekend

By Mareesa Nicosia

The first full-length book in English by the first Western feminist writer Christine de Pisan, 'The Book of the Feat of Arms and of Chivalry.'

Whitmore Rare Books Rare books, maps, first editions, and ephemera signed by notables from Albert Einstein to Karl Lagerfeld to Andy Warhol will be featured this weekend at the 60th annual New York International Antiquarian Book Fair. https://www.barrons.com/articles/bibliophiles-delight-the-antiquarian-book-fair-returns-tonew-york-this-weekend-01583431281?mod=hp_PENTA

More than 200 international and American exhibitors will present a trove of items–spanning the pre-Gutenberg era to the 21st century–including books, maps, illuminated manuscripts, and more.

The fair offers a vast range of genres and subjects, from art to science, medicine, literature, history, gastronomy, fashion, Americana, philosophy, and children’s books.

The event is sanctioned by the Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association of America and the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers; it’s produced by the New York-based firm Sanford L. Smith + Associates.

Considered one of the year’s premier events for bibliophiles, the book fair drew nearly 9,000 people last year, both serious collectors and casual browsers alike. Organizers expect to see a higher turnout this year, says Donald Heald, treasurer for the Mid-Atlantic Chapter of the Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association of America.

“We have a record number of exhibitors and are grateful to report that we have no cancellations– our confidence in the fair this year is very high,” he said in an email interview Wednesday. “I actually just walked the floor a few minutes ago at the Park Avenue Armory and there is a spectacular array of books and ephemera from all over the world.”

Prices range from $50 to $450,000, according to a sampling of prices provided to Penta. In recent years, the fair has “increasingly captured the attention of young collectors seeking unique offerings at more accessible price points,” organizers said in a statement.

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Schubertiade is bringing a signed fashion design by Karl Lagerfeld.

Schubertiade Gabe Boyers, founder of Schubertiade Music & Art, tells Penta he’s noticed more younger collectors, in their late 20s and early 30s, attending book fairs—they’re “starting to have a little jingle in their pockets,” as he puts it. Catering to a range of budgets has always been important to him, he says, and prices at his booth this year run the gamut from $100 to five figures and up.

The rare books and art markets have also seen “a very welcome, new attention” on works by and about African Americans and people of color, Boyers says.

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“That’s certainly a powerful new trend that you’re seeing all around, which is marvelous,” he says.

“Since so much of our musical history is in that area, it’s always been something that we’ve dealt in, (but) I would say there’s a sort of renewed energy to that, which I would expect to be played out among my colleagues’ offerings.”

Highlights from the Schubertiade exhibit include a Duke Ellington manuscript ($185,000); a poster ($6,000) announcing a joint appearance in Paris of Martin Luther King Jr. and the activist singersongwriter Harry Belafonte (who turned 93 on March 1); and a pair of crystal-studded stockings in original packaging to which Ella Fitzgerald lent her likeness for advertising ($250).

Boyer will also bring a brass bullet ($6,000) signed by Andy Warhol that relates to the artist’s 1982 exhibition “Guns Knives Crosses.” In addition, he will offer a small sketch of a pink skirt suit signed by designer Karl Lagerfeld in 1985 ($3,000). The drawing, on notepaper featuring the Chanel logo, is from the collection of the late fashion historian and journalist June Weir-Baron, who worked for Women’s Wear Daily, Vogue, and Harper’s Bazaar.

One of the more expensive items in the show is offered by Whitmore Rare Books for $450,000: An extremely rare book titled The Book of the Feat of Arms and of Chivalry by Christine de Pisan.

The author is known as the first Western feminist writer (she served as resident poet at the French court of King Charles VI).

The full-length book is the first English language edition, and one of only three known surviving copies that were printed by England’s first printer, William Caxton, in 1489.

The book fair runs March 5-8 at the Park Avenue Armory in Manhattan.

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February 26, 2020

March’s Can’t Miss Design Events

By Marina Felix

Spring is on the way, and while the world awaits warmer days, the design calendar is bursting with events. Now’s the time to mark your schedule so you don’t miss any of these trade shows, art happenings, parties or panels. Want more? Click here to view our full list of happenings.

INDUSTRY EVENTS Design Influencers Conference San Francisco, CA March 1–3 The Design Influencers Conference focuses its programming on interior design influencers and designers using web and social media platforms to build their businesses and brands. Nate Berkus, Alexa Hampton and Miranda Kerr are the keynote speakers; additional programming features professionals from other industries—Ashley Schroeder, who developed the first-ever influencer strategy at Pinterest; Taylor Loren, head of content marketing at Instagram marketing platform Later; and Mae Karwowski, founder and CEO of Obviously, the leading influencer marketing agency for Fortune 500 companies. For more info, click here.

The Design Social Pop-Up Charlotte, NC March 11 Traveling trade show the Design Social Pop-Up comes to North Carolina with a curated selection of brands and the goal of connecting designers with new resources and independent makers.

Taking place at the historic Duke Mansion in Charlotte, the day’s program will include two speaker panels: The first, hosted by BOH’s own editor in chief, Kaitlin Petersen, will ask four textile designers how they’ve adapted to the digital age; the second, hosted by Veranda editor in chief Steele Marcoux, will feature three lauded makers talking about their careers. For more info, click here.

Westweek Los Angeles, CA https://t2conline.com/events-for-march-are-flowery-and-very-green/

March 18–19 At the Pacific Design Center, this year’s Westweek theme will be “2020 VISION: Design in Transformation.” The event’s programming takes a look at how a rapidly changing world is affecting business, how culture and lifestyle are shifting in the architectural and design category, and how the trade is thriving amidst these changes. For more info, click here.

Chicago Flower & Garden Show Chicago, IL March 18–22 It may still be cold in the Windy City, but with spring around the corner, optimism—and fresh blooms—are in the air. At Navy Pier, this year’s Chicago Flower & Garden Show will be centered around the theme “20/20: A Focus on Flowers,” featuring gardens that showcase the profound role that flowers and plants play in day-to-day life. Twenty-one full-size gardens are open for walkthroughs, along with seminars, workshops and an event marketplace. For more info, click here.

Texas Design Week Houston, TX March 23–30 Each spring, Texas Design Week heads to Houston for a week of art and design talks by noted interior designers, architects, artists and product designers. The week is chock-full of programming, including book signings, pop-up shops, salon talks and cocktail events. For more info, click here.

DIFFA By Design New York, NY March 26–28 Hosted by Design Industries Foundation Fighting Aids, designers are invited to shop the latest from participating industry brands at or below wholesale pricing, including M2L, Duravit, Curated Kravet, Foscarini and others. What’s more, Rockwell Group, Benjamin Moore, Gensler and others have designed installations for the event. For more info, click here.

TRADE SHOWS Architectural Digest Design Show New York, NY March 19–22 The Architectural Digest Design Show takes to Pier 94 on New York’s west side. In its 19th year, the show offers visitors a selection of 400 brands, creatively arranged in vignettes. The first day will be open exclusively to members of the trade and VIPs. For more info, click here.

The International Window Coverings Expo Charlotte, NC March 25–27 The International Window Coverings Expo is the only trade show and conference targeted to window covering professionals in North America. Each year, the event draws thousands of U.S. and international professionals—interior designers, workrooms, manufacturers, retailers and https://t2conline.com/events-for-march-are-flowery-and-very-green/

installers—to offer the newest in window coverings and treatments. This year, workshops will feature such names as LuAnn Nigara, Jana Platina-Phipps and Melissa Galt. For more info, click here.

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The Rug Show Los Angeles, CA March 27–29 The Rug Show returns to the Los Angeles Convention Center with an international list of rug producers, importers and wholesalers. This year’s fair will also include a party to celebrate the life and work of former show director Ramin Mobayen, who passed away in January. For more info, click here.

ART & ANTIQUES Spring/Break Art Show New York, NY March 3–9 During the Armory Arts Week, the aim of the Spring/Break Art Show is to showcase exhibitions in unexpected and historic New York City spaces, challenging the established traditions of the week-long event. For more info, click here.

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Volta New York, NY March 4–8 Volta’s annual showcase of emerging and mid-career artists returns this year under new ownership and new direction: The event management company Ramsay Fairs is now overseeing operations, guided by 2020 fair director Kamiar Maleki. A group of 53 galleries from 35 cities will take to Metropolitan West, where visitors can view a mix of solo projects and curated presentations—artist highlights include Iranian painters and performance artists the Safarani Sisters, Ghanaian sculptor Yaw Owusu and Welsh painter Emma Bennett. For more info, click here.

The Armory Show New York, NY March 5–8 New York’s premier contemporary and modern art fair returns this year under the curatorial leadership of Nora Burnett Abrams, the Mark G. Falcone director at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver; José Carlos Diaz, chief curator at the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh; and the Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art executive director Anne Ellegood and curator Jamillah James. The expanded program will further integrate modern and contemporary artwork, adding a third exhibitor section called Perspectives (in lieu of the Insights section), in which historical material will be viewed through a contemporary lens. For more info, click here.

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Art on Paper New York New York, NY March 5–8 Located at Pier 36, the Art on Paper fair will feature top talent from 100 galleries in modern and contemporary paper-based art. The medium-driven focus has shaped the event, now in its sixth year, into a unique stage for surprising paper moments. For more info, click here.

Charleston Antiques Show Charleston, SC March 5–8 From the Antiques Council comes the 17th-annual Charleston Antiques Show, centered on antique paintings, jewelry, furniture, rugs, decorative objects and silver. For three days, more than two dozen fine arts and antiques dealers from around the world will congregate at the Gaillard Center in downtown Charleston. For more info, click here.

Independent Art Fair New York, NY March 5–8 Since 2010, Independent Art Fair has aimed to inspire contemporary art audiences through a strongly curated show. This year at Spring Studios in Tribeca, Object & Thing will put on a special presentation that unites works in a single installation, rather than grouping by gallery—a change that speaks to both fairs’ shared interest in creating innovative and inspiring experiences for visitors and creators. For more info, click here.

New York International Antiquarian Book Fair New York, NY March 5–8 For the bibliophiles out there, the Antiquarian Book Fair is an absolute must. This year, the show returns to the Park Avenue Armory for its 60th anniversary edition—more than 200 exhibitors will present everything from rare books and illuminated manuscripts to illustrations and print ephemera. For more info, click here.

TEFAF Maastricht Maastricht, The Netherlands March 7–15 One of the premier international art fairs, TEFAF Maastricht this year welcomes 25 new exhibitors to its roster of 280. Private collectors, museum curators, patrons and professionals alike can feast their eyes on a selection of fine art, antiques and design from around the world.

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Asia Week New York New York, NY March 12–19 Over the last decade, Asia Week New York has brought the wonders of the Far East to Manhattan for Asian art aficionados. This year, 38 gallery exhibitions will open to the public, showcasing the finest in Asian textiles, ceramics, furniture, sculpture and more. A comprehensive series of gallery talks will be given by experts in the field. For more info, click here. https://t2conline.com/events-for-march-are-flowery-and-very-green/

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Biennale of Sydney Sydney, Australia March 14–June 8 The third-oldest biennial in the world (after Venice and São Paulo) announced its program highlights for its 22nd edition, which will see six venues throughout the city hosting a diverse showing of artwork, contemporary installations, videos and performances. More than 100 international artists have been selected under the creative direction of renowned Indigenous Australian artist Brook Andrew. For more info, click here.

Affordable Art Fair New York, NY March 25–29 The spring edition of the Affordable Art Fair boasts over 70 international exhibitors that will take to the Metropolitan Pavilion in Chelsea, all showing works for $100 to $10,000—with more than half under $5,000. A standout element is the Lunch Time Talks series, where conversations explore the intersections of art, design and architecture for interior designers, architects and other creatives. For more info, click here.

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January 29, 2020

The Best Things to do in NYC in March

By City Guide News Desk For the best things to do in NYC in March 2020, check out our complete guide, which includes a Studio 54 exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum, the Orchid Show at The New York Botanical Garden, a Bill Graham exhibit at the New-York Historical Society, the Armory Show, Billie Eilish in concert, St. Patrick's Day, Micky Dolenz at The Iridium, Thom Yorke, and much more!

Things to Do in New York in March: Exhibits

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Guy Marineau (French, born 1947). Pat Cleveland on the dance floor during Halston's disco bash at Studio 54, 1977.

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(Opens 3/13) Studio 54: Night Magic. It’s hard to believe that Studio 54, the mecca of the disco era, lasted just 3 years. After its opening on April 26, 1977, the legendary midtown club quickly achieved iconic status. Celebs from Andy Warhol to Farrah Fawcett flocked to this outrageous and exuberant party scene. By February 1980, the club was shut down, but its legacy remains vital 40 years later. A new exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum, Studio 54: Night Magic uses photographs, drawings, film, and fashion to document how this nightclub came to reflect a particular moment in the cultural history of New York City. The exhibition design parallels that of the club itself and features a soundtrack of disco hits like Chic’s “Le Freak” and Gloria Gaynor’s “I Will Survive.”

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(2/15-4/19/20) The Orchid Show: Jeff Leatham's Kaleidoscope at The New York Botanical Garden. The 18th annual Orchid Show will feature the dazzling floral creations of Jeff Leatham, the famed artistic director of the Four Seasons Hotel George V, Paris and floral designer to the stars. Leatham’s bold and colorful vision will unfold through captivating installations transforming each gallery in the historic Enid A. Haupt Conservatory into a different color experience, like a turn of a kaleidoscope. See dramatically arranged orchids in arches of deliberate hues delivering a tunnel effect, along with other design surprises featuring thousands of orchids—both rare and iconic—from the garden’s renowned collections and the finest growers in the world. nybg.org

Image: Barron Claiborne, Biggie Smalls, King of New York, Wall Street, New York, 1997.

(Now-5/18) The International Center of Photography recently moved into the Lower East Side's Essex Crossing at 79 Essex St. There are four new exhibits running at the same time-Tyler https://www.cityguideny.com/article/NYCThings-to-Do-in-March-

Mitchell: I Can Make You Feel Good, which explores ways to interpret Black identity in a positive light; Contact High: A Visual History of Hip-Hop, featuring a collection of portraits of some of the biggest names in hip-hop back from past to present including Notorious B.I.G., and others; Lower East Side: Selections From the ICP Collection, and finally James Coupe: Warriors, using the cult classic 1979 film to explore contested notions of community, race, gender, and class in the 21st century.

Dinner and cake in Intrepid’s wardroom in October 1944. Photo from National Archives and Records Administration.

(Ongoing) Making a beautiful cake is pretty challenging, but what if you had to make it on a Navy ship, for a crew of thousands? The Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum’s new exhibition, Navy Cakes: A Slice of History, explores the history of naval personnel and their incredible cakes.

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Baron Wolman. Jimi Hendrix performs at Fillmore Auditorium, San Francisco, February 1, 1968. Gelatin silver print. Iconic Images/Baron Wolman.

(2/14-8/23) Bill Graham and The Rock & Roll Revolution at the New-York Historical Society.

Delve into the world of Bill Graham (1931–1991), one of the most influential concert promoters of all time. Bill Graham and the Rock & Roll Revolution explores the life and work of the legendary music impresario who worked with the biggest names in rock music—including the Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Jimi Hendrix, Santana, Led Zeppelin, and the Rolling Stones —and launched the careers of countless music luminaries at his famed Fillmore Auditorium in San Francisco and the Fillmore East in New York City. Unique to New-York Historical is a special, immersive audio experience, providing a musical tour through the exhibition with songs by rock superstars Aerosmith, Blondie, David Bowie, Cream, the Doors, Janis Joplin, Tom Petty, and Neil Young, among others.

(Permanent) The Jim Henson Exhibition at the Museum of the Moving Image celebrates the life and legacy of the famed Muppet creator, exploring both his prolific career and the enduring effect his work has on pop culture to this day. Visitors will learn more about the creation of such beloved works as The Muppet Show, Sesame Street, Fraggle Rock, The Dark Crystal, and Labryinth, as well as discover the cutting-edge experimental works Henson made throughout his career.

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(3/5-3/8) Art lovers, the annual Armory Show returns to Pier 92/94 on the Hudson in midtown, this year marking its 25th anniversary. New York’s premier international art fair showcases over 200 galleries from around the world.

The Story of Little Red Riding Hood, courtesy of Pierre Coumans.

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(3/5-3/8) The New York International Antiquarian Book Fair (NYIABF) celebrates its 60th Anniversary Edition at the Park Avenue Armory on the Upper East Side. The world’s finest antiquarian book fair, NYIABF welcomes bibliophiles, collectors of the curious and quirky, scholars, connoisseurs, and enthusiastic laymen alike. More than 200 exhibitors present a vast treasure trove of material: rare books, maps, illuminated manuscripts, incunabula, fine bindings, illustrations, historical documents, rare prints, and print ephemera.

(Ongoing) The popular pop-up the Museum of Ice Cream returns. Tickets start at $39.

(Ongoing) The most significant site of the Holocaust, Auschwitz was not a single entity, but a complex of 48 concentration, forced labor, and extermination camps, at which 1 million Jews— and tens of thousands of others—were murdered. Auschwitz. Not long ago. Not far away., a new exhibition at the Museum of Jewish Heritage—A Living Memorial to the Holocaust, explores the legacy of history’s deadliest mass murder site. More than 700 original objects and 400 photographs are on display, many for the first time in North America. Among the artifacts: personal possessions, fragments of a barrack, a gas mask used by the SS, and an original German-made Model 2 freight wagon used for the deportation of Jews to the ghettos and extermination camps in occupied Poland.

(Ongoing) You can experience the world of history’s most famous spy at Driven: 007 x SPYSCAPE, a new exhibition inside New York’s spy museum, SPYSCAPE. This immersive exhibition brings you into the Bond universe with sets, props, and insights about the creation of the ageless secret agent. Among the highlights: an Aston Martin DB5, the lab of Quartermaster https://www.cityguideny.com/article/NYCThings-to-Do-in-March-

(or Q), M16’s gadget master, concept art from Oscar-winning production designer Sir Ken Adams, and an exploration of 2012 Bond film Skyfall’s unforgettable final scene.

It's Women's History Month! Celebrate Women's History Month 2020 in NYC.

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MARCH 7, 2020

World Trade Center blueprints are being sold for $250,000 after they were found in TRASH of dead architect who designed them

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James Cummins Bookseller, a dealer of rare books based in Manhattan, is selling the documents at the New York International Antiquarian Book Fair The event is running through Sunday at the Park Avenue Armory Set of blueprints were taken to Denver in the 1970s by architect Joseph Solomon when he moved from New York City The World Trade Center opened in 1973 They include more than 500 plans of the Twin Towers and other site components Smaller sets have been sold but those were connected to the reconstruction of the World Trade Center following the 1993 bombing Denver resident Jake Haas found the blueprints as Solomon's daughter was throwing them out

Rare blueprints for the original World Trade Center have been salvaged from the trash and are now on sale for $250,000 at a New York book show.

James Cummins Bookseller, a dealer of rare books based in Manhattan, is selling the documents at the New York International Antiquarian Book Fair.

The event is running through Sunday at the Park Avenue Armory.

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James Cummins Bookseller, a dealer of rare books based in Manhattan, is selling the documents at the New York International Antiquarian Book Fair

The event is running through Sunday at the Park Avenue Armory The set of blueprints were taken to Denver in the 1970s by architect Joseph Solomon when he moved from New York City. The World Trade Center opened in 1973.

They include more than 500 plans of the Twin Towers and other site components and are the largest collection of blueprints for WTC ever offered for sale, the Wall Street Journal reports.

Smaller sets have been sold but those were connected to the reconstruction of the World Trade Center following the 1993 bombing.

'I think you do get a sense of what a massive undertaking this was,' Brian Kalkbrenner, a seller with James Cummins, said of the Solomon set of designs.

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The set of blueprints were taken to Denver in the 1970s by architect Joseph Solomon when he moved from New York City. The World Trade Center opened in 1973 (WTC in 1971)

The blueprints include more than 500 plans of the Twin Towers and other site components Solomon's daughter, Amy Lee Solomon, shared that her father decided to leave New York City as the construction industry struggled. The blueprints were 'one of the things he took with him,' she shared.

Solomon died in November 2017 at the age of 89, after having continued doing architecture work in Colorado.

In May 2018, Amy Lee began going through her father's belongings and tossed out the blueprints - which had been stored in the garage at the top of old cabinets.

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They are the largest collection of blueprints for WTC ever offered for sale

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Solomon's daughter, Amy Lee Solomon, shared that her father decided to leave New York City as the construction industry struggled. The blueprints were 'one of the things he took with him,' she shared

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Smaller sets have been sold but those were connected to the reconstruction of the World Trade Center following the 1993 bombing (WTC in 1998) Jake Haas, a Denver-area resident who sells antiques and collectibles, happened to be driving by the Solomon home at the time Amy Lee was ditching the items.

Haas stopped once he spotted what he believed were antique maps and 'stuff that could be worth $40 or $50 apiece.'

He purchased the blueprints, realizing what they were later. Haas then sold them to Angelo Arguello, an owner of three pawnshops in the Denver Area.

It was Arguello who then connected the blueprints with James Cummins, letting the dealer sell them on a consignment basis.

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Denver resident Jake Haas found the blueprints as Solomon's daughter was throwing them out

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Haas then sold them to Angelo Arguello, an owner of three pawnshops in the Denver Area The blueprints could be worth even more as the 9/11 Memorial & Museum said that it only has some of the site's development.

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, the owners of the original site, can't say whether they have a complete set either. They lost many documents during the September 11 attacks.

Solomon's daughter doesn't hold a grudge for what has become of the blueprints.

'This was the quintessential project of his life,' she said.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8086513/Rare-World-Trade-Center-blueprintssold-250-000.html

It was Arguello who then connected the blueprints with James Cummins, letting the dealer sell them on a consignment basis

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8086513/Rare-World-Trade-Center-blueprintssold-250-000.html

The blueprints could be worth even more as the 9/11 Memorial & Museum said that it only has some of the site's development

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8086513/Rare-World-Trade-Center-blueprintssold-250-000.html

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey is also unsure whether it has a full set

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MARCH 7, 2020

Se venden planos originales de las Torres Gemelas, tras ser rescatados de la basura

En una feria de libros antiguos de Nueva York están a la venta los planos originales de las derribadas torres del World Trade Center, luego de que un hombre de Colorado los rescatara de la basura.

La colección, que incluye más de 500 planos, es la mayor de las Torres Gemelas que haya salido a la venta, de acuerdo con el equipo de James Cummins Bookseller, con sede en Nueva York. Cummins no reveló el precio en dólares, pero dijo que es de seis dígitos.

https://www.eluniverso.com/noticias/2020/03/06/nota/7770069/se-venden-planosoriginales-torres-gemelas-tras-ser-rescatados

El centro 9/11 Memorial & Museum dijo que no tiene todos los planos del World Trade Center.

La Autoridad Portuaria de Nueva York y Nueva Jersey ha dicho que no está segura de poseerlos completos. Muchos documentos se perdieron en los ataques del 11 de septiembre del 2001.

Los planos en venta salieron de Nueva York inicialmente en la década de 1970, cuando el arquitecto Joseph Solomon se los llevó a Denver como recuerdo de su carrera, reportó el Wall Street Journal.

Su hija, Amy Lee Solomon, tiró los planos en mayo de 2018 cuando limpiaba las pertenencias de su padre tras su deceso en noviembre de 2017, sin darse cuenta de su valor.

Jake Haas, residente del área de Denver, encontró lo que pensó eran mapas antiguos en la basura y los recogió.

Tras ver las referencias "Torre A" y "Torre B", Haas se dio cuenta de lo que eran los documentos y se los vendió a Angelo Arguello, que tiene tres casas de empeños en el área de Denver.

Arguello se puso en contacto con Cummins, que maneja la venta a consignación, para asegurarse de que los planos recibían la exposición necesaria.

Amy Lee Solomon dijo que sentirse agradecida de que vaya a ser reconocida la contribución de su padre a un hito de Nueva York. "Fue el proyecto por excelencia de su vida", dijo.

La feria New York International Antiquarian Book Fair se realiza hasta el domingo en el Park Avenue Armory en Manhattan. (I)

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MARCH 5, 2020

New York Antiquarian Book Fair March 5-8, 2020 book lovers will find a fascinating treasure trove at the Park Avenue Armory.

Over 200 American and international dealers will exhibit at The ABAA New York International Antiquarian Book Fair, and bring a vast selection of rare books, maps, manuscripts, illuminated manuscripts and ephemera. The diversity of specialties includes art, medicine, literature, photography, autographs, first editions, Americana, and much more.

Fri, Mar 6th noon - 8pm Sat, Mar 7th noon - 7pm Sun, Mar 8th noon - 5pm Daily Admission $25 Students $10 (with valid ID) Run of Show: $45 Student and Run of Show only available at the door.

Preview Pass $60 (Includes one daily re-admission) Thu, Mar 5th 5pm - 9pm Programming and Lectures: Free with paid admission Discovery Day: Sun 1pm-3pm Free with paid admission Bring up to five treasures to be evaluated by our experts!

Park Avenue Armory 643 Park Avenue (between 66/67 Streets) New York, NY https://www.nyantiquarianbookfair.com/

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Rare Book Week B o ok Fa i r s New York International Antiquarian Book Fair sponsored by the antiquarian Booksellers’ association of america and the international League of antiquarian Booksellers, the NYiaBF opens with a preview Thursday evening, March 5, and runs through sunday, March 8, at the Park avenue armory at 643 Park ave. over 200 American and international dealers will display an astonishing array of rare books, fine art, maps, manuscripts, and ephemera. “Discovery Day” appraisal event on sunday, 1–3 p. m. admission: $60 for preview pass, $45 run of show, $25 daily, $10 for students carrying a valid school iD. For more information, visit NYantiquarianBookFair.com.

HIGHLIGHTS LES ENLUMINURES, the international manuscript dealer founded by Dr. Sandra Hindman, will exhibit this charming, thirteenth-century illuminated psalter previously owned by women in the seventeenth century, and perhaps made for Premonstratensian nuns. Price: 48,000

Toronto’s ALEXANDRE ANTIQUE PRINTS, MAPS & BOOKS will display the eye-catching “Prospetto dell’alma Città di Roma visto dal Monte Gianicolo,” Giuseppe Vasi’s magnificent panorama of Rome, ca. 1765. Price: 20,000 London’s PETER HARRINGTON will showcase a first edition, first impression of Graham Greene’s 1938 thriller, Brighton Rock, in its lurid pink “exceedingly rare dust jacket,” which might just be enough to peel your eyes away fro m their Third Folio. Price for the Greene: 87,500 (115,000); Price for the Shakespeare: 500,000 (655,000)

With the suffrage centennial on our minds, this highlight from California’s MAX RAMBOD RARE BOOKS is “on trend,” as they say, offered amongst a vast selection of related material. This is a collection of press photos of female athletes, 1910–1950. Price: 2,200

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Ohio, which specializes in “idiosyncratic and uncommon literary revenants,” puts the spotlight on this understated gem: Jean Cocteau’s L’Ode à Picasso (Paris, 1919) in the original printed wrappers and inscribed by the author.

Price: 7,500

From its deep stock of antiquarian law books, the LAWBOOK EXCHANGE will bring a subscriber’s copy of the first American edition of Blackstone’s Commentaries (Philadelphia, 1771–1772) in its original binding. Price: 12,500

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MARCH 3, 2020

New York's 60th Annual Antique Book Fair

By Sophie Lee

This year, the New York International Antiquarian Book Fair will celebrate its 60th anniversary.

The fair is known for offering a wide range of rare and antique items for, and from, bibliophiles all over the world. The fair is held in collaboration with the Antiquarian Booksellers of America, and the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers. This year’s fair will take place at the Park Avenue Armory from March 5-8th. It boasts a roster of more than 200 domestic and international sellers. Attendees can expect to find everything from rare books and illustrations, to historical documents and maps. Prices are expected to range from $50-$1,000,000. On the 8th, visitors can bring their own items for evaluation by expert exhibitors. Price of admission and daily hours are as follows: Preview Night - Thursday, March 5 - 5pm-9pm Daily Hours: Friday, March 6 - 12pm-8pm/ Saturday, March 7 - 12pm – 7pm / Sunday, March 8 - 12pm-5pm/ Discovery Day Sunday, March 8 - 1pm-3pm Preview Pass: $60 (Includes one daily re-admission) / Daily Admission: $25 / Students: $10 (with valid ID - at the door only) / Run of Show: $45 (at door only) https://www.flaunt.com/content/new-york-60th-antique-book-fair

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MARCH 6, 2020

Rare blueprints for original World Trade Center up for sale at New York book fair

By Robert Gearty Blueprints for the original World Trade Center -- rescued from the trash -- have been put up for sale for $250,000 in New York City, according to reports James Cummins Bookseller in Manhattan says the documents, which include over 500 plans, are the largest for the Twin Towers ever offered for sale.

Cummins is handling the sale, which will take place this weekend at the New York International Antiquarian Book Fair.

The twin towers were destroyed on Sept. 11, 2001, by Al Qaeda terrorists in two hijacked planes, killing more than 2,700 people.

The 9/11 Memorial & Museum said it does not have a full set of blueprints, and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey said it's unsure if it has one. Many documents were lost in the terror attacks.

The blueprints belonged to Joseph Solomon, one of the World Trade Center architects.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/rare-blueprints-world-trade-center-book-fair

World Trade Center blueprints belonging to one of the architects are being put up for sale in New York. (James Cummins Bookseller) The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday that Solomon took the documents to Denver in the 1970s as a keepsake.

His daughter, Amy Lee Solomon, threw the plans out in May 2018 while cleaning out her father's belongings after his death in November 2017, not realizing their potential value.

Denver-area resident Jake Haas found what he thought were antique maps in the trash and stopped to collect them.

World Trade Center in New York. (Photo by Michel Setboun/Corbis via Getty Images) https://www.foxnews.com/us/rare-blueprints-world-trade-center-book-fair

After seeing references to "Tower A" and "Tower B," Haas realized what the documents were and later sold the set to Angelo Arguello, who owns three pawnshops in the Denver area.

Arguello reached out to Cummins, which is handling the sale on a consignment basis, to ensure the blueprints get the exposure they merit.

Amy Lee Solomon said she is grateful that her father's contribution to a New York landmark is being acknowledged.

"This," she said, "was the quintessential project of his life."

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2020

7 Rare Pieces of Art History to Collect at the Antiquarian Book Fair From exquisite Picasso illustrations to a signed bullet by Andy Warhol, don't miss these objects at the New York fair

By Lucy Rees

In this digital age, rare books may seem like a sleepy trend from a bygone era, calling to mind dark, dusty libraries. But the art of rare-book collecting is alive and well, and nowhere is it more evident than at the New York International Antiquarian Book Fair, which takes place at the Park Avenue Armory from March 5 through 8. Celebrating its 60th year, the fair brings together more than 200 U.S. and international dealers, transforming the former drill hall into a treasure trove of not only fascinating books but also maps, illuminated manuscripts, and ephemera covering every genre imaginable. https://www.galeriemagazine.com/7-rare-pieces-of-art-history-to-collect-at-the-antiquarianbook-fair/

The category of ephemera is an especially curious one: small objects of little value that must have appealed to the person who once possessed them, and subsequently treasured them. In the art and design world, these seemingly inconsequential items, including exhibition posters, pamphlets, catalogues, invitations, and one-off artist books, exist in abundance and when combined offer a mini-history of art and artists.

Ahead of the fair, we scoured the booths to find the most interesting pieces of history to collect.

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This remarkable offering include original etchings and proof plates by Pablo Picasso. Photo: Courtesy of Librairie Camille Sourget 1. Pablo Picasso illustrations for a natural history book Between 1936 and 1942, Pablo Picasso created this set of etchings to illustrate a natural history book by the French naturalist Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, Histoire Naturelle.

Picasso’s love for animals is seen in the 31 distinct etchings.This beautifully decorated hand-bound book also includes a set of proof plates and the supplementary etching “La Puce.” It is on offer at Librairie Camille Sourget.

A brass bullet signed by Andy Warhol. Photo: Courtesy of Schubertiade 2. Andy Warhol signed bullet Andy Warhol signed this brass bullet for his 1982 show at the Galeria Fernando Vijande in Madrid, “Guns Knives Crosses,” which featured abstracted images of guns, knives, crosses, and dollar signs, created to question their status and meaning. The unexpected item is on offer at Schubertiade Music & Arts LLC.

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Ovid’s Les Métamorphoses with three original pencil drawings by Pablo Picasso. Photo: Courtesy of Libraire Lardanchet 3. Picasso’s personal copy of Ovid’s Les Métamorphoses In 1931, at the suggestion of Pierre Matisse and with the help of Jacqueline Apollinaire, the Swiss publisher Albert Skira convinced Pablo Picasso to illustrate a French translation of Ovid’s Métamorphoses. The artist produced a body of 30 etchings depicting the mythical figures of classical antiquity as elegant, erotic entangled lines. This exceptional copy, previously owned by Picasso, contains three original pencil drawings; it was gifted to the artist’s friend Max Pellequer, a French banker and collector who assembled an important collection of modernist artworks in the 1920s and 1930s. It is on offer for €150,000.

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Sample book of north Italian patterned paper. Photo: BERNARD QUARITCH LTD 4. Remondini paper from Italy This rare and unusually large decorative paper-sample book features some 480 brightly preserved specimens of Remondini patterned papers created between the years c. 1780–1820. Very few paper sample-books of the period are known to have survived, and the majority of examples comprise only a handful of smaller paper samples, pasted into albums. This would have been used as a sample book for Italian book and paper makers in the early part of the nineteenth century, and the patterns would have been translated into various fabrics. It is on offer for £12,500.

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One of six photographs titled The Dancer Rigmor Rasmussen by Dora Kallmus in a portfolio.

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5. Photographs by pioneering Viennese photographer Madame D’Ora Dora Kallmus, or Madame D’Ora as she was known, was an avant-garde portrait photographer, working in Vienna and later Paris, whose subjects included such luminaries as Gustav Klimt, Emperor Charles I, Josephine Baker, and Coco Chanel. Her portraits exuded a sensual, vibrant energy that separated her from her contemporaries. (Don’t miss the major retrospective exhibition of her work on view at the Neue Galerie in New York through May, 2020.) This collection of photographs, contained in a portfolio of paste-paper boards over a cloth spine, lettered in gilt on the front board, is on offer for $2,750 at Triolet Fine Books.

An exceptional collection of autograph manuscripts and drawings by Tristan Tzara. Photo: Courtesy of Sims Reed 6. A collection of manuscripts by Dada founder Tristan Tzara Tristan Tzara was a Romanian-born French poet and essayist most known for founding Dada, a radical avant-garde arts movement whose purpose was to demolish all the values of modern civilization. This collection of manuscripts and drawings spanned Dada in Zurich to Surrealism in Paris. It was previously owned by René Gaffé, the famed Belgian collector of Cubist, Surrealist, Dadaist, African, and Oceanic art, and was bound for him by the famed French bookbinder Paul Bonet.

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Ichijiro Honda. Hana Shirushi, 1901. Photo: Courtesy of URSUS Books 7. Japanese color theory boards by Ichijiro Honda This stunning 1901 work on color theory was produced by Honda Ichijiro, who was a founder of Unsodo, the renowned Kyoto firm of woodblock printers and publishers. Inside, there are 17 double-folded leaves with 50 ovals of single colors—ten are abstract designs revealing a variety of shades. Also boasting the stamp of printing historian Sonobe Masayoshi inside the front cover, it can be purchased from Ursus Books for $3,500.

The New York International Antiquarian Book Fair is on view at the Park Avenue Armory from March 5— 8.

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MARCH 5, 2020

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FEBRUARY 28, 2020

New York Capitale della Fotografia

La grande mutazione che sta trasformando New York da metropoli industriale e commerciale a mecca del turismo internazionale, ne ha mutato anche il panorama artistico e culturale. Le nuove istituzioni museali, oltre all’ampliamento di quelle già esistenti, hanno coinvolto anche il mondo della fotografia.

Una tradizione museale in espansione New York ha una lunga tradizione di gallerie fotografiche, basti pensare alla leggendaria Gallery 291 di Alfred Stiegliz aperta nel 1905 che espose per la prima volta oltreoceano le avanguardie europee. Il bimestrale Photograph ne conta più di cinquanta tra le gallerie storiche che hanno conservato le loro sedi in Midtown e le molte che si sono trasferite a Chelsea, nuovo paradiso dell’arte contemporanea, nelle aree dismesse del Meatpacking District, negli ex mattatoi lungo il fiume Hudson e il parco urbano della High Line.

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L’International Center of Photography, per esempio, fondato nel 1952 da Cornell Capa, fratello di Robert Capa, conserva la sua sede in Midtown, ma ha anche aperto una nuova sede espositiva di fronte al New Museum of Contemporary Art. Il Museum of Modern Art continua nella valorizzazione del proprio patrimonio fotografico iniziato nel 1940, e il Guggenheim Museum ha aperto un’ala dedicata alla fotografia, oltre ad aver indetto un programma di borse di studio e di ricerca sul lavoro del fotografo. Le principali case d’asta Christie’s e Sotheby’s propongono periodicamente immagini fotografiche, mentre la Swann Galleries si distingue sin dagli anni Settanta per aste di Photobooks e Photographica. In linea generale, le numerose istituzioni della città riservano stabilmente spazi alla fotografia.

Gli eventi Numerose sono anche le manifestazioni che si svolgono in città. Degne di note sono, tra le altre, la International Antiquarian Book Fair, che quest’anno dedicherà un importante settore alla fotografia e alla lettura fotografica; e Strand Books, istituzione cittadina del libro usato con un interessante reparto dedicato ai libri fotografici rari a prezzi ragionevoli.

Leggi tutto il servizio su IL FOTOGRAFO#321.

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MARCH 2, 2020

NY Antiquarian Book Fair 2020 Highlights As Rare Book Week draws near, I find myself scrolling through booksellers’ preview catalogues and lists for the New York International Antiquarian Book Fair, which opens on Thursday, March 5, and runs through Sunday, March 8.

By Rebecca Rago Barry

From the looks of it, an amazing selection awaits collectors.

A locket associated with Charles Dickens. Credit: Jarndyce Booksellers, UK

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So far, my favorite item heading to the fair is the one pictured above. London’s Jarndyce Antiquarian Booksellers will cross the pond with this endearing oval memorial locket inscribed “Papa d. June 9 1870.”

That Papa was Charles Dickens; the decorative metal locket was once owned by his daughter-in-law Elizabeth “Bessie” Matilda Evans. Price: $2,000 Another fun find comes from Inlibris Gilhofer Nfg., an Austrian rare book and manuscript dealer that plans to display Beethoven’s manuscript shopping list. Written in the maestro’s hand circa 1817, the list includes a mousetrap and a metronome. Price: €95,000 (approx. $103,000) Tom Goldwasser Rare Books of San Francisco plans to show some of the Willa Cather collection he has just announced, the bulk of which belonged to Cather scholar and former president of Skidmore College David H. Porter. The collection ranges from the author’s own signed copy of The Borzoi, a history of Knopf published in 1920 for $500, to a 1913 first edition of Cather’s O Pioneers! in its extremely rare (virtually extinct) dust jacket, priced at $50,000.

Further highlights can be found in our spring issue’s Rare Book Week printed supplement, including:

Credit: Peter Harrington, UK London’s Peter Harrington will showcase a first edition of Graham Greene’s 1938 thriller, Brighton Rock, in its lurid pink “exceedingly rare dust jacket,” which might just be enough to peel your eyes away from their Third Folio. Price for the Greene: £87,500 (approx. $115,000); Shakespeare: £500,000 ($655,000) Triolet Rare Books of Ohio, which specializes in “idiosyncratic and uncommon literary revenants,” puts the spotlight on this understated gem: Jean Cocteau’s L’Ode à Picasso (Paris, 1919) in the original printed wrappers and inscribed by the author. Price: $7,500 New York International Antiquarian Book Fair Sponsored by the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America and the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers, the NYIABF opens with a preview Thursday evening, March 5, and runs through Sunday, March 8, at the Park Avenue Armory at 643 Park Ave. Over 200 American and international dealers will display an astonishing array of rare books, fine art, maps, manuscripts, and ephemera.

"Discovery Day" appraisal event on Sunday, 1–3 p. m. Admission: $60 for preview pass, $45 run of show, $25 daily, $10 for students carrying a valid school ID. For more information, visit NYAntiquarianBookFair.com.

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The New York City Book & Ephemera Fair The New York City Book & Ephemera Fair—In its sixth year, this Rare Book Week "Satellite fair" will run two days: Friday, March 6 from 9 a.m.–5 p.m., and Saturday, March 7 from 8 a.m.–4 p.m. Sixty exhibitors will showcase antiquarian books, manuscripts, ephemera, book art, and works on paper. Located at Wallace Hall, Church of St. Ignatius, 980 Park Avenue at 83rd St., with free round-trip shuttle bus service to the Armory available. Admission: $15 for adults, free for students with ID. For more information, and to purchase a VIP discounted ticket, visit bookandpaperfairs.com.

The Manhattan Vintage Book, Ephemera & Fine Press Book Fair The Manhattan Vintage Book, Ephemera & Fine Press Book Fair, aka "The Shadow Show," will be held on Saturday, March 7 from 10 a.m.–5 p.m., at the Church of St. Vincent Ferrer, 869 Lexington Avenue at 66th Street—just across the street from the Armory. Appraisals by John Bruno and guest appraisers from 1– 3 p.m. Admission: $15 for adults, $7 for youths aged 13–21, and free for those under 13 with paid adult.

For more information, visit flamingoeventz.com.

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MARCH 4, 2020

8 Things To Do In NYC In March

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3/19-22 Architectural Digest Design Show With exquisite curations from more than 400 brands, the show brings together 40,000 design aficionados inspired by seminars, culinary demonstrations and special appearances. Pier 94, addesignshow.com

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3/2 Opening Gala of Der Fliegende Holländer With his production of Wagner’s Der Fliegende Holländer, Francois Girard transforms The Met Opera into an oil painting. The black-tie gala will include a cocktail reception, dinner on the Grand Tier, Champagne and dessert. Sponsor tickets from $2,000, The Metropolitan Opera, metopera.org 3/5-8 New York International Antiquarian Book Fair

The 60th annual book fair features a vast array of rare books, first editions, maps, manuscripts and ephemera.

Tickets $25, Park Avenue Armory, nyantiquarianbookfair.com

3/21 NYC Hope Gala The childhood cancer gala will include an open bar, dinner, dancing, a silent auction and a special speaker. General admission tickets $315, Gotham Hall, nychopegala.com

3/10 Young People’s Chorus of New York City 2020 Annual Gala Benefit Concert & Dinner Aiming to offer children from all backgrounds a music education, the benefit is hosted by Jason Mraz with dinner at the Mandarin Oriental. Dinner and concert tickets

3/22-4/5 Macy’s Annual Flower Show Featuring bright colors and exotic floral arrangements across store

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countertops, windows and specially designed architecture, the exhibition immerses visitors into a global atmosphere. Macy’s Herald Square, macys.com 3/26-4/18 Tosca Back due to popular demand, Giacomo Puccini’s Tosca returns to The Met Opera, starring Anna Netrebko as Rome’s explosive diva Floria Tosca. Orchestra tickets from $130, The Metropolitan Opera, metopera.org 3/30-8/2 Making The Met, 1870-2020 The centerpiece of the 150th anniversary celebration of The Met, the exhibition is a museumwide collaboration that delves into the institution’s history. Tickets $25, The Met, metmuseum.org

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Clockwise from top left: Bryn Terfel as the Dutchman in Der Fliegende Holländer; The Met visitors viewing “George Washington Crossing the Delaware” in 1910; Roxy chandelier by Koket, exhibited by Covet House at the Architectural Digest Design Show.

MARCH 15, 2020

FAIR PLAY / NEW YORK ANTIQUARIAN BOOK FAIR

For old tomes’ sake Inside the Park Avenue Armory, an 1861 gothic-revival building in New York’s refined Upper East Side, people are closely scrutinising display cases and carefully leafing through aged books.

Although the large vat of hand sanitiser and the occasional display of elbow bumping are signs of strange new times, the crowd at the 60th-anniversary edition of the New York International Antiquarian Book Fair is strong. So who attends these sorts of shindigs? Anyone from the casual, curious punter to the avid collector who’s looking for a very specific Victorian cookbook (and, on the last day of the fair, actress Jennifer Lawrence was there too).

The antiquarian market, which focuses on old or rare books, has proven robust in the face of economic fluctuations. This is largely because the prices charged attract serious collectors. There’s also a hint of nostalgia here: plenty of booksellers specialise in children’s books. At this year’s show, for example, a signed, first-edition, first-print of The Very Hungry Caterpillar was waiting to be gobbled up for $22,500 (€20,250).

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Organiser Sanford Smith proudly says that the New York event is the best of its kind in the world.

And it’s certainly international, attracting sellers from Buenos Aires, Geneva, Toronto and even Cirencester in the UK’s West Country. On our rounds we spotted a beautiful 1933 Harry Beck poster for the London Underground, the last photos taken of Ernest Hemingway and some eyecatching book jackets by underrated modernist graphic designer Edward McKnight Kauffer.

There’s plenty of life in old books.

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MARCH 7, 2020

World Trade Center Blueprints Found in Trash up for Sale

The original blueprints of the World Trade Center are up for sale nearly twenty years after the terror attacks on September 11.

The blueprints were found almost two years ago in trash pile on a street in Denver, KUSA reported in 2018.

A Colorado man, Jake Hass, discovered the largest floor plan of the Twin Towers from the 1960s in a trash can.

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"The reason why I stopped is because I do antiques, and what I originally thought in my head is they were maps, antique maps," Haas said to KUSA. "We're in the middle of the street with our blinkers on, digging through the trash, grabbing all this stuff out of there, and then it started hitting me what I actually had."

Now, the blueprints are for sale at the New York International Antiquarian Book Fair, which ends Sunday.

The blueprints are expected to sell for at least $1 million

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MARCH 9, 2020

Blueprints for Twin Towers Auctioned Off After Being Found in Trash As Seen on News 4

The plans sold for a quarter of a million dollars after one man found them in the garbage in Denver, Colorado after one of the building’s architects moved out there. The plans went from the trash, to a pawn shop, to Park Avenue.NBC New York’s Jamie Roth reports.

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MARCH 6, 2020

Blueprints for the original World Trade Center are on sale Blueprints for the original World Trade Center are on sale until Sunday at the New York International Antiquarian Book Fair NEW YORK (AP) — Blueprints for the original World Trade Center are on sale at the New York International Antiquarian Book Fair after a Colorado man rescued them from the trash.

The set, which includes over 500 plans, is the largest for the Twin Towers ever offered for sale, according to the New York-based James Cummins Bookseller team. Cummins wouldn’t disclose the price but said it is in the six figures.

The 9/11 Memorial & Museum said it does not have a full set of blueprints, and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey said it’s unsure if it has one. Many documents were lost in the Sept.

11, 2001 attacks.

The blueprints first left New York in the 1970s when architect Joseph Solomon took them to Denver as a keepsake of his career, the Wall Street Journal reported.

His daughter, Amy Lee Solomon, threw the plans out in May 2018 while cleaning out her father’s belongings after his death in November 2017, not realizing their potential value Denver-area resident Jake Haas found what he thought were antique maps in the trash and stopped to collect them.

After seeing references to “Tower A” and “Tower B” Haas realized what the documents were and later sold the set to Angelo Arguello, who owns three pawnshops in the Denver area.

Arguello reached out to Cummins, which is handling the sale on a consignment basis, to ensure the blueprints get the exposure they merit.

Amy Lee Solomon said she is grateful that her father’s contribution to a New York landmark is being acknowledged.

“This was the quintessential project of his life,” she said.

The New York International Antiquarian Book Fair runs until Sunday and is held at the Park Avenue Armory in Manhattan. https://www.nbc4i.com/news/u-s-world/blueprints-for-the-original-world-trade-center-areon-sale/

MARCH 12, 2020

Fully Booked: New York International Antiquarian Book Fair

By Kristin Fayne-Mulroy

New York International Antiquarian Book Fair KRISTIN FAYNE-MULROY PHOTO

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The New York International Antiquarian Book Fair, which celebrated its 60th anniversary, hosted more than 200 dealers and 8,000 attendees at the Park Avenue Armory this past weekend. Book lovers were treated to a vast selection of rare books, maps, manuscripts, illuminated manuscripts and ephemera of various specialties including art, medicine, literature, photography, autographs, first editions, Americana, and much more over the three-day event. For more information, visit www.nyantiquarianbookfair.com.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2020

International Antiquarian Book Fair attracts celebs like Johnny Depp

By Cindy Adams

NY’s International Antiquarian Book Fair starts March 5. Park Avenue Armory.

There’s Maurice Sendak’s inscribed first edition of “Where the Wild Things Are.” From Paris, in French, 1885’s design for the Louis Vuitton iconic signature look. Booth E17 has Gustave Eiffel’s original 1880 drawings of La Statue de la Liberté. James Joyce signed only 100 copies of his “Ulysses.” One, in its original green wrapper, is for sale. https://pagesix.com/2020/02/25/international-antiquarian-book-fair-attracts-celebs-likejohnny-depp/

Autographed 1960’s “Samuel Beckett” letters are gettable. First edition of Mark Twain’s “Huckleberry Finn” inscribed with his comments. How about Czarina Catherine, Empress of Russia’s letter ordering a gift for her future husband whom she later deposed.

First edition hardcover of Alexandre Dumas’ “Les Trois Mousquetaires.” Illustrations by Rembrandt. Rare red ink Warhol. A magic how-to from Harry Houdini’s library. Draft typescript of Allen Ginsberg’s landmark poem “Howl.” A Jack the Ripper collection inscribed to one of the lead detectives.

With so much exposure in today’s world, celebrity collectors protect privacy. Johnny Depp shopped one book fair wearing a hoodie with the hood way up, covering nearly all his face.

Come Year 2670 it’ll be a yard sale of anti-Trump paperbacks.

Greed is good for the movies “Greed” — that’s you not me. The film opens Friday.

Brit star Steve Coogan speaks quickly. I’m American. My ears are slow. He spoke British so I think he said: “It’s based on a true story. A self-made billionaire in my country who ruled the world of retail fashion.

“It’s patterned after a real London storekeeper.” A big name someone, whose company went bust, left pensions in question. “Of course, it’s not exactly him. It’s modeled after his character.

“Like maybe one of those multibillion-dollar companies that pay workers $3.50 a day. Not saying they do. Just that the gap between super-rich and super-poor is the concept. It’s a rollicking, gloriously over-the-top film.”

In it this bully wears fake huge white teeth. “They’re now in a box. I couldn’t even eat with them.

Nor did I keep them. They’re not my thing. It was just to depict excess. Maybe in the next film my contract will state that if I wear fake teeth I keep them.

“Listen, in real life my character was an ass. A real complete total ass.”

Sanctified by truth Burnie Sanders despises the United States, honeymooned in Russia, and wants to burn down our traditions. There is little economic difference between him and Havana’s tyrants. If we want to live in Cuba, and have the state determine what we can and cannot possess, we could move there.

The Bible’s James 4:1 and 2 might deal with red-faced burned-up Sanders’ fights and screeches.

It reads: “Don’t they come from your desires that battle within you? You desire but do not have.

So you kill. You covet but you cannot get what you want. So you quarrel and fight.”

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Uptown & upstate Leslie Uggams made her debut age 9 at the Apollo. Despite a small lapse, she’s back. At the Apollo. April 27. A 16-week run. The show’s “Blue.” The director’s Phylicia Rashad … Question: Is Pawling going to the dogs? Poop in upstate’s high-class historic town, established by Quakers, is that the ASPCA’s putting their paws in Pawling. If so, where and for what — nobody in charge will bark.

Jane Fonda — speaking of hair change, face change and ambition change in her new documentary — looks 10 pounds lighter. Afterward, she put on mascara and was right back to her fighting weight.

Only mentioned in New York, kids, only in New York.

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MARCH 6, 2020

Antique book show unearths hidden library treasures

By Christopher Cameron

Bauman Rare Books, 535 Madison Ave. Brian Zak/NY Post In 1960, the year the New York International Antiquarian Book Fair began, Harper Lee came out with “To Kill a Mockingbird.”

Today, an inscribed first edition of that book sells for $50,000 — and what used to be an industry swap meet is now a globally recognized institution. This weekend, the 60th annual fair will fill the Park Avenue Armory at 643 Park Ave. with 212 dealers of rare manuscripts, maps, ephemera and much more.

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“When I took over the fair 30 years ago, [it] was being run by the dealers — and you never let book dealers run a show!” says Sanford Smith, 80, an art and antique show promoter and the fair’s owner. “I didn’t know anything about rare books. But I fell in love with them. ” The 55,000-square-foot fair can be overwhelming for the casual bibliophile, but Smith has some suggestions.

“The big trend this year is books by women and black authors,” he says. “The great Harlem Renaissance — both the art and written word from that period — are considered very important historically and are doing very well.”

Among the quirkier items at the fair this year are a complete set of blueprints of the original World Trade Center towers and a first edition of Danish philosopher Kierkegaard’s “The Lily of the Field and the Bird of the Air” that orbited the earth aboard the International Space Station.

“You can buy great books from $26 to $1 million,” Smith says of the fair, which runs through Sunday (admission is $25).

Then again, rare books are nothing new in New York. Here are a few of our favorite spots.

New York’s finest

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Founded on lower Fourth Avenue’s famed Book Row in 1925, Argosy Book Store brims with volumes both modest and jaw-dropping. That last includes a first edition of Darwin’s “Origin of the Species” that fetched $170,000. Still for sale at this family-run bookstore are first editions by Sir Isaac Newton ($100,000) and James Joyce’s “Ulysses” ($30,000), plus a collector’s edition of Oscar Wilde’s “An Ideal Husband” signed by the author himself ($20,000). The store also houses a room devoted to collectible autographs.

“It’s very exciting for us to handle material of every subject and every price range,” says Adina Cohen, one of three daughters of Argosy’s founder, who run the store. “It’s not just high-end, intimidating and impossible.“ 116 E. 59th St.; 212-753-4455

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Land of Oz

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Books of Wonder is a magical place for young readers and their families. But while its two stores specialize in new children’s literature, eagle-eyed collectors will probably zoom in on its rare-book collection. It’s packed with first editions, many of them signed by their authors, including L. Frank Baum’s “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” ($24,000), Maurice Sendak’s “Where the Wild Things Are” ($22,500) and Kay Thompson’s “Eloise in Moscow” ($750).

“One my proudest achievements is that we have reissued all of L. Frank Baum’s 15 [Oz] books, in hardcover with color illustrations as they were originally published,” says owner Peter Glassman, who opened his Flatiron location in 1980. “This marks the 20th year we’ve had them all available. Purchasing them all at one time wasn’t something that was even achievable in Baum’s lifetime.”

18 W. 18th St. and 217 W. 84th St.; 212-989-3270

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Luxury set-ups

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Bibi Mohamed started working at a rare book store when she was just 17. By 1989, she founded her own Madison Avenue shop, Imperial Fine Books. Specializing in beautiful and luxurious bindings — think lots of leather — Mohamed outfits at-home libraries with complete sets by great authors.

“We focus on condition and good authors,” Mohamed says. “We have decorative sets by authors like Dickens, Twain and Kipling and can decorate entire libraries with collections in colors like yellow or black.”

Some highlights: a signed set of volumes by Mark Twain with 500 watercolors ($32,500) and a 32-volume, leather-bound set of Rudyard Kipling stories printed on Japanese vellum ($12,500).

Don’t let the shop’s sixth-floor perch intimidate you: Imperial Fine Books is always open to the public.

“As an immigrant woman who didn’t go to college, I am very blessed to be in the book business,” Mohamed says.

790 Madison Ave., Suite 601; 212-861-6620

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From ‘Gulliver’ to sci-fi

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Natalie and David Bauman founded Bauman Rare Books in 1973 and today it’s still a one-stop shop for all things rare. One of the few bookstores left with an impressive ground-floor retail space, Bauman probably has whatever it is you’re looking for. https://nypost.com/2020/03/06/antique-book-show-unearths-hidden-library-treasures/

“We are generalists,” says Allison MacIntosh, one of Bauman’s book sellers. “We do everything.”

MacIntosh says that one genre that’s lately “really taken off” is science fiction. “First editions of ‘Dune’ or ‘I, Robot’ can be really expensive,” she says.

A few of the store’s treasures include Thomas Jefferson’s personal, annotated copy of “The Laws of the United States” ($245,000), a first-edition, contemporary calf-bound “Gulliver’s Travels” ($182,000) and “The Velveteen Rabbit” in its original dust jacket ($20,500).

535 Madison Ave.; 212-751-0011

Hidden gem

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James Cummins Bookseller, founded in 1978, is an inconspicuous shop, sitting high up on the seventh floor of a building between 62nd and 63rd Streets. But it’s very much open to the public, and looks exactly how a rare bookshop should. From the Harry Potter series to medieval manuscripts, there’s plenty to browse on the shop’s handsome wood shelves and display cases.

Definitely check out that 1876 map of Lower Broadway, from Exchange Place to 14th Street ($10,000).

“We have a very nice room filled with books priced anywhere from a couple hundred dollars to in excess of $100,000,” says bookseller Henry Wessells.

Cummins is strong on books about sporting and the outdoors, including a rare first edition of “The Complete Angler” by Izaak Walton, which came out in 1653. More timely and familiar are Ian Fleming’s many Bond books, which he inscribed to close family and friends, here priced from $12,000 to $120,000.

“Bond is hot,” says Wessells.

https://nypost.com/2020/03/06/antique-book-show-unearths-hidden-library-treasures/

MARCH 7, 2020

World Trade Center blueprints discovered in trash on sale for $250K

By Paula Froelich

Someone’s trash truly is another person’s treasure.

Blueprints for the original World Trade Center, which were rescued from the trash, are now on sale for $250,000, according to Fox News.

The blueprints originally belonged to one of the buildings’ architects, Joseph Solomon, who kept them as a keepsake. After Solomon died in 2017, his daughter, Amy Lee Solomon, cleaned out his Denver home and threw the plans in the trash. https://nypost.com/2020/03/07/world-trade-center-blueprints-discovered-in-trash-on-salefor-250k/

“Denver-area resident Jake Haas found what he thought were antique maps in the trash and stopped to collect them,” Fox News reported. Haas soon realized what he had and sold the plans to a local Denver pawnshop owner, Angelo Arguello.

Arguello is selling the blueprints via James Cummins Bookseller in Manhattan this weekend at the New York International Antiquarian Book Fair.

Meanwhile, Amy Lee Solomon is said to be “grateful her father’s contribution to a New York landmark is being acknowledged.” No word on whether or not she will get any proceeds from the sale.

https://nypost.com/2020/03/07/world-trade-center-blueprints-discovered-in-trash-on-salefor-250k/

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MARCH 5, 2020

'The Booksellers' Speaks Volumes About Old Books And Those Who Love Them

By Ella Taylor

Adam Weinberger examines a bookshelf in the documentary The Booksellers.

As we hurtle closer to a time when little kids will look up from their tablets to inquire, "What was a book, Mommy?" much as they now ask, "What's a record player?," it may cheer you to learn, from a charming new documentary about bookselling, that while the middle-aged tend to play on Kindles these days, millennials are to be seen in droves reading print books on the New York subway. They're probably also the ones ordering "vintage" turntables, and they may be driving the encouraging current renaissance of independent bookstores serving cappuccino on the side, to lure us back from Amazon.

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The books being bought, sold and read there, though, are unlikely to be the kind found at the New York Book Fair in a gorgeous old building on the city's Upper East Side: ancient tomes, some with curled and peeling pages, others gorgeously illuminated. The handlers of those books are the subject of D.W. Young's beguiling film, The Booksellers, about the world of New York antiquarian book dealers. They're a vanishing breed who, with some exceptions, regard their work more as consuming passion than as career.

Though Young dots the testimonial terrain with a few famous book lovers — Fran Lebowitz, Susan Orlean, Gay Talese — most of the story is told by eccentrics you've never heard of but will enjoy meeting. Dandies in tweeds and bow ties, pear-shaped nerds with sloping shoulders, all manner of Dickensian oddballs, are all as well-represented here as you might expect from this arcane enterprise. Meet the self-described poet, Arabist and sci-fi collector who, with his lanky frame and long twitch of hair, looks to have marched off the pages of an Edward Gorey tale. Or the ruddycheeked British auctioneer in country brogues who looks as though he should be posing with a hunting rifle. Or the dealer in a three-piece checkered suit of vintage cut, his face all but hidden behind a handlebar mustache.

Sprinkled among this bunch is a small army of older gents who have been in the business since time began. Rumpled, balding and lamenting "the shattering of concentration" by smartphones and such, they lurk in decrepit emporia behind teetering piles of dust-encrusted tomes topped by cats with Maggie Smith stares. As Lebowitz observes with glee (of the grumpy owners, not the grumpy felines), "They don't want to sell you anything because they just want to stand there and read all day."

And why not, in these treasure palaces in whose cobwebbed corners you can browse away the day and "find what you aren't looking for."? Here's a specialist in radical cultural movements with a focus on the conflict in Afghanistan. That rich dude who made his fortune from Priceline.com shows off a vast, well-tended library with books organized by height, designed as a "homage to Escher," and waiting to be digitized. Rich or poor, almost all cherish their books as physical objects https://www.npr.org/2012/08/08/158367654/with-last-book-sale-lit-giant-leaves-one-moregift

too. One indiscriminate collector, admitting that "I don't know why I collect," proudly picks out a tome entitled Amish Love to underscore his devotion to anything between covers.

And guess what? There are women dealers and collectors today too, some of them young, like the elegantly black-clad Rebecca, who's a regular guest on the hit Pawn Star television show, or the exuberant black archivist who collects all things hip-hop.

The Booksellers is by no means just an elegy for a dying trade run ragged by astronomical New York City rents, by the internet in general and dread Amazon in particular. It's big business at the top, where the internet drives astronomical prices and millionaires tune into auctions by phone or online (a Da Vinci manuscript famously sold for $28 million not so long ago), even as it impoverishes and displaces those at the bottom.

Rich or poor, most of the book lovers in this delightful homage belong to a tribe that grooves to the arcane because they see what others don't in any given book. Most, as the collector with a doctorate in lyric poetry admits with a rueful grin, see themselves in any case as "not fit for anything else." As the three beaming middle-aged sisters who prop up the Argosy book store, sole survivor of New York's famous Book Row, which once housed 50 antiquarian bookshops, declare, "We like being here."

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MARCH 5, 2020

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MARCH 11, 2020

États-Unis. Les plans du World Trade Center trouvés dans une poubelle ont été vendus à 220 000 euros

Le New York International Antiquarian Book Fair proposait une vente aux enchères exceptionnelle, pendant le week-end du samedi 7 au dimanche 8 mars. Plus de 500 plans du World Trade Center étaient mis à la vente pour une valeur avoisinant 220 000 euros, rapporte Capital, qui reprend une information du média américain Fox News.

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Ces documents auraient pourtant pu disparaître en 2018, lorsque la fille de Joseph Solomon, l’un des architectes du World Trade Center, les a jetés à la poubelle. Celle-ci pensait qu’ils n’avaient aucune valeur. Elle s’en est donc débarrassée au moment où elle vidait la maison de son père, décédé en novembre 2017. « C’était le projet de sa vie » C’est un antiquaire de Denver, aux États-Unis, qui les a finalement retrouvés dans une poubelle en mai 2018. Tandis qu’il pensait à l’origine avoir à faire à des cartes, il s’est finalement rendu compte qu’il s’agissait des plans du World Trade Center lorsqu’il a vu les inscriptions « Tower A » et « Tower B ». Il les a ensuite vendus à un prêteur sur gage, qui a décidé d’organiser une vente aux enchères.

De son côté, la fille de l’architecte a exprimé sa reconnaissance envers la personne qui a récupéré ces dessins. « C’était le projet de sa vie », a-t-elle confié à Fox News.

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MARCH 4, 2020

UES Park Avenue Armory To Host Antique Book Fair The 60th Annual New York International Antiquarian Book Fair will be held at the armory from March 5 to March 8.

By Brendan Krisel

UPPER EAST SIDE, NY — Antique books valued at up to $1 million will be up for sale when hundreds of booksellers set up shop inside the Upper East Side's Park Avenue Armory for the 60th Annual New York International Antiquarian Book Fair, organizers said.

This year's book fair is expected to draw 200 exhibitors to the armory to showcase a wide range of antique works such as rare books, maps, illuminated manuscripts, historical documents, illustrations and incunabula. The event is organized by the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America and International League of Antiquarian Booksellers. https://patch.com/new-york/upper-east-side-nyc/ues-park-avenue-armory-host-antiquebook-fair

Works offered at the fair cover a wide range of topics such as: Art, science, medicine, history, fashion, children's and other academia. Prices for items on sale are expected to range from $50 to $1 million.

Tickets to this year's New York International Antiquarian Book Fair run $25 per day or $45 for the run of the three-day show. A pass to the event's preview on March 5 costs $65, according to the fair's website. Ticket holders can bring up to five personal items to be evaluated by experts on Sunday from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. during the fair's "Discovery Day" event.

Fair hours are from 12 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Friday, 12 p.m. to 7 p.m. on Thursday and 12 p.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday.

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MARCH 3, 2020

From ‘Howl’ to ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’: 7 Rare Items to See at the New York Antiquarian Book Fair These reads are worth a smidge more than a dollar a word.

By Helena Madden

Pryor-Johnson Rare Books The New York Antiquarian Book Fair will descend on the Park Avenue Armory for its 60th year starting March 5, bringing with it about 200 dealers who will shop their rare books and ephemera to an eager collector clientele. And while all the event’s rare baubles are worth a look, a few stand out from the pack for their unique backstory. Many of these objects are valued not because they’re in pristine quality. In fact, it’s their imperfections that make them so sought-after. They show off doodles by the author, margin notes and signatures, all leaving a permanent mark on the pages within. Below, seven rare items that caught our eye at this year’s fair. https://robbreport.com/shelter/art-collectibles/gallery/antiquarian-book-fair2901239/picasso-photos-17653/

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7. Three Photographs of Picasso’s Art — $4,500 A photograph of an artwork isn’t typically worth much in comparison to the real deal—but having the artist’s signature attached to it certainly can’t hurt. From the collection of former MoMA art director Alfred Barr, one of the three photographs of Picasso’s works bears the artist’s coveted tag.

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6. ‘Howl and Other Poems’ — $17,500 A first edition, first printing of Allen Ginsberg’s 1956 work, which contains his most well-known poem, “Howl,” this particular copy is distinct in more ways than one. First, it’s signed by Ginsberg himself on the title page. But there’s another writer’s tag on the book—Carl Solomon signed above the titular poem on page nine. Ginsberg dedicated the poem to Solomon, whom he met at Columbia Psychiatric Institute (the poem is otherwise known as “Howl for Carl Solomon”). In part three, the poem’s refrain, “I’m with you in Rockland,” directly references Solomon’s internment at Columbia. According to Pryor-Johnson Rare Books, which will have the book for sale at their booth, only three other copies in the world exist bearing Solomon’s signature.

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5. Francis Bacon Photograph — $20,000 Though he was known for his dark, brutal paintings, Francis Bacon often took inspiration from photographs, even snapping a few himself. This particular image was captured by Bacon at a Parisian bookstore, Librairie Le Minotaure, circa 1975. It depicts the owner, Roger Cornaillle, with a Frankenstein hand puppet. According to the vendor’s research, no original examples of Bacon’s phtoography have yet appeared on the secondary market, making this an exceptional opportunity.

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3. ‘The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex’ — $22,500 This first edition, first issue of Charles Darwin’s two volume work is more than just an early version of the 1871 tome. It’s also a symbolic moment for the relationship between Darwin’s work and the Church, as it bears the ownership stamp of English theologian H.P. Liddon. Up until that point, Darwin’s writings on evolution—here he posits his first writings on sexual selection—were widely perceived as being in conflict with Church teaching. Liddon’s readership of the book—he even jotted some notes in the margins—bridge that gap, culminating in a sermon that he gave three days after Darwin’s death that argued that the Church’s teachings were not in conflict with Darwin’s writings in Descent.

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3. ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’ — $22,500 In American writer and illustrator Eric Carle’s children’s book ouevre, classics included beloved tales such as Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See; The Grouchy Ladybug and, perhaps most notably, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, the story of a ravenous insect who eats everything from oranges to chocolate cake in his quest to become a butterfly. And if you need the original copy of Caterpillar to sate your literary appetite, then Pryor-Johnson Rare Books’ booth will have your fix. The first edition, first printing and first issue of the celebrated story includes Carle’s signature, as well as a doodle of the caterpillar himself and a note that reads “with love.” We’d recommend not ravenously eating through the book itself, though, as the caterpillar does in the text.

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2. ‘Kierkegaard in Space’ — $67,000 Space—the final frontier. These are the voyages of, uh, Kierkegaard’s The Lily and the Field and the Bird in the Sky. Yes, this first edition of the Danish philosopher’s book, which consists of three of his most important speeches, did indeed make it aboard the International Space Station. Brought in 2015 by Denmark’s first astronaut, Andreas Mogensen, the book was chosen by the Danish Ministry of Education and Research to be brought aboard—it’s a tradition that astronauts bring a few items with them to space that reflect their culture. The book enjoyed quite the audience, too, as Mogensen reportedly hosted “Danish evenings” for his fellow astronauts, during which he would read Kierkegaard aloud to them. Signed by Mogensen and verified by the European Space Agency, the historic text is housed in a custom-made box that resembles the moon’s stony surface, with silver lettering that reads, aptly: “Kierkegaard in Space.”

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1. The Federalist Papers — $250,000 Taking the top spot on our list is a first edition of The Federalist, presented at Raptis Rare Books’ booth. The work—only 500 copies were published in 1787—will cost you $250,000, which is a small price to pay for such a significant slice of US history. Penned primarily by Alexander Hamilton, with an assist from James Madison and John Jay, the 85 essays promoted the ratification of the US Constitution, though how integral they were in the Constitution’s eventual passing remains up for debate. It didn’t always fly off the shelves, though: After Hamilton sent 50 copies to Virginia for the ratifying convention, the remaining 450 sold so poorly that publishers complained a year later that they still had hundreds of them left.

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MARCH 6, 2020

Blueprints for the original World Trade Center are on sale NEW YORK (AP) — Blueprints for the original World Trade Center are on sale at the New York International Antiquarian Book Fair after a Colorado man rescued them from the trash.

The set, which includes over 500 plans, is the largest for the Twin Towers ever offered for sale, according to the New York-based James Cummins Bookseller team. Cummins wouldn’t disclose the price but said it is in the six figures.

The 9/11 Memorial & Museum said it does not have a full set of blueprints, and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey said it’s unsure if it has one. Many documents were lost in the Sept.

11, 2001 attacks.

The blueprints first left New York in the 1970s when architect Joseph Solomon took them to Denver as a keepsake of his career, the Wall Street Journal reported.

His daughter, Amy Lee Solomon, threw the plans out in May 2018 while cleaning out her father’s belongings after his death in November 2017, not realizing their potential value Denver-area resident Jake Haas found what he thought were antique maps in the trash and stopped to collect them.

After seeing references to “Tower A” and “Tower B” Haas realized what the documents were and later sold the set to Angelo Arguello, who owns three pawnshops in the Denver area.

Arguello reached out to Cummins, which is handling the sale on a consignment basis, to ensure the blueprints get the exposure they merit.

Amy Lee Solomon said she is grateful that her father’s contribution to a New York landmark is being acknowledged.

“This was the quintessential project of his life,” she said.

The New York International Antiquarian Book Fair runs until Sunday and is held at the Park Avenue Armory in Manhattan.

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MARCH 11, 2020

Original blueprints for World Trade Center towers found in trash, sold for $250,000

By Shane Reiner-Roth

The World Trade Center once towered over the southern Manhattan skyline. (Carol M. Highsmith/Wikipedia Commons)

Though they were destroyed nearly 20 years ago, the Minoru Yamasaki-designed World Trade Center towers, 1 and 2 World Trade Centers, remain in clear memory for architects and non-architects alike. Their shared height and radical abstraction made them instant icons of the late modernist movement and a dual symbol of New York City’s renewed presence in the postindustrial global economy. The Twin Towers’ undeniable significance made the recent discovery of https://archpaper.com/2020/03/original-blueprints-for-world-trade-center-towers-found-in-trash-sold-for-250000/

their original blueprints all the more worthy of attention, including the unusual trade of hands that took place in the last half-century.

The elevations of the Twin Towers, which very well could have been mistaken at first to be mere spreadsheets, are an integral part of the complete set that was recently up for auction. (Courtesy James Cummins Bookseller)

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After the two towers were completed in 1973, the blueprints fell into the hands of Joseph Solomon, a former junior partner in Emery Roth & Sons, a New York-based architecture firm that partnered with Yamasaki on the project. Documenting elevations, sections, design details, and virtually all other elements of the site, the blueprints were serendipitously found in the trash in Denver, where Solomon brought them as he set up a new practice. Solomon passed away in 2017, leaving his daughter to clear out his garage, which, unbeknownst to her, included the valuable blueprints.

Denver resident Jake Haas saw the drawings lying in front of the Solomon home and, quickly determined their worth, sold them to local pawnshop owner Angelo Arguello, who then sold them to James Cummins Bookseller, a Manhattan-based rare book dealer, thus bringing the blueprints back to where they were first drawn up. “I think you do get a sense of what a massive undertaking this was,� Brian Kalkbrenner, a seller with James Cummins, told the Wall Street Journal while marveling at the plans in their entirety, thought to be the only complete set in existence.

The rare book dealer subsequently put them up for auction during the New York International Antiquarian Book Fair at the Park Avenue Armory held last weekend where they were shown to the public for the very first time and, according to Channel 9 News, were sold for an astounding $250,000. While the winner of the auction has not been disclosed, Haas expressed that he would like to eventually see them on display in a local museum for the public to remember the towers that once stood tall in the Financial District.

https://archpaper.com/2020/03/original-blueprints-for-world-trade-center-towers-found-in-trash-sold-for-250000/

January 1, 2020

The Art Newspaper's comprehensive 2020 art fair guide From Miami to Marrakech, here are all the dates you need for your calendar this year

By The Art Newspaper Whether you're a fair-tigued dealer, an avid collector or a hyper-organised art-lover, look no further than our 2020 Art Fair Calendar to plan your year ahead.

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Art Bahrain Across Borders (ArtBAB), Sanabis, Bahrain, March Collective Design Fair, New York, US, March Volta New York, New York, US, 4-8 March Art on Paper, New York, US, 5-8 March Collectible, Brussels, Belgium, 5-8 March NY International Antiquarian Book Fair, New York, US, 5-8 March Scope New York, New York, US, 5-8 March The Armory Show, New York, US, 5-8 March Contemporary Art Ruhr, Essen, Germany, 6-8 March Independent, New York, US, 6-8 March Object & Thing at Independent, New York, US, 6-8 March Tefaf Maastricht, Maastricht, Netherlands, 7-15 March Affordable Art Fair, London, UK, 12-15 March Art Central, Hong Kong, China, 17-22 March Chelsea Antiques Fair, London, UK, 18-20 March The Open Art Fair (BADA), London, UK, 18-24 March Art Basel in Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China, 19-21 March MIA Photo Fair, Milan, Italy, 19-22 March Affordable Art Fair, Brussels, Belgium, 20-22 March Art Fair Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, 20-22 March Ceramic Art London, London, UK, 20-22 March Art Dubai, Dubai, UAE, 25-28 March Chaco (Chile Arte Contemporรกneo), Santiago, Chile, 25-29 March Drawing Now, Paris, France, 25-29 March https://www.theartnewspaper.com/preview/fair-calendar-2020

Salon du Dessin, Paris, France, 25-30 March Affordable Art Fair, New York, US, 26-29 March Eurantica, Brussels, Belgium, 26-29 March Art Nordic, Copenhagen, Denmark, 27-29 March

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MARCH 4, 2020

'It cuts across time': a peek into the world of antiquarian books Documentary The Booksellers captures the world of rare books, from hip-hop magazine collectors to private librarians, and a trade opened up and apart by the internet

Rare book dealer Adam Weinberger appraising books at a residence in Manhattan, in The Booksellers Photograph: Courtesy of Greenwich Entertainment The annual New York International Antiquarian Book Fair is a maze of glass shelves and display case lighting, a bounty of time portals in the arrangement of a sprawling jewelry convention. Two fourth-edition copies of Don Quixote ask for $120k, while another case contains JP Morgan’s copy of Shakespeare’s Third Folio. There’s a Hemingway archive containing a doll figure of Fidel Castro, cherubic face swallowed by a curly black beard, and a stand dedicated to ephemera of the occult. The clock overhead at the Park Armory, in the city’s Upper East Side, points directly to the 4 and 6, a position no working analog clock would assume.

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This time warp is the heart of the antiquarian book trade, and the opening scene of The Booksellers, a documentary taking stock of a longstanding, niche trade in flux. The texts are arguably timeless, able to be read and interpreted far outside their original bindings, but collecting focuses on the specific context of materiality; the time, place, and context of books as objects, and thus as wormholes. An antiquarian book “cuts across time”, Rebecca Romney, a bookseller at Type Punch Matrix featured in the film who has taken her rare book expertise to the show Pawn Stars. “It suddenly just feels so immediate, if something is printed in 1700 and you hold it in your hand – you feel there, you feel present.”

The film is, according to director DW Young and producer/book dealer Dan Wechsler, a “celebration of the book” as object, an exploration of the characters populating and transmitting a tradition of appreciation, and an homage to the fundamental, heady curiosity underlying the drive to collect printed texts. It’s also a portrait of an often insular world broken open, and at times apart, by the advent of the internet. The Booksellers traces a business landscape which frequently maps onto New York, such as the rise and decline of Book Row on Fourth Avenue, which had 48 independent bookstores at its height in the 20th century; today, only the Strand remains.

The film wistfully recalls the bookstores of lore, and the caretakers who inherited the trade that remained largely unchanged for a century. In 90 minutes, Young weaves through the specialty books ecosystem – rare book dealers, appraisers and auctioneers; private collectors with vast personal libraries; archivists and institutions showcasing material; personal journeys into the trade from dealers and literary figures such as Fran Lebovitz and Gay Talese. Booksellers are “discoverers of history”, Young told the Guardian, and thus the film-makes “an argument for why preserving physical books is important and it’s not just about them having value as just collectible items”.

The camera finds palpable joy in watching sellers and collectors’ tactile, familiar sense of books, the “real connectivity that you see in the way they handle the material – that’s at the heart of it all,” said Young. But the film also delves into the economic difficulties of the passion, particularly in the digital age. The internet created what Wechsler called “a race to the bottom”, in which supply is overwhelming, and constantly updating, driving a race to “have the cheapest, the best, or the only”, he told the Guardian. The sense of rarity for first editions of modern classics, for example, evaporated as many were listed online; numerous booksellers and stores went out of business.

Part of the mission of the film, then, is to generate a digital record of a turbulent moment in the history of the book trade. “There’s an obligation to record the moment,” said Young, “both for this passing generation, and for this crazy upheaval that’s going on, while we’re still in it a little bit”.

The boon of supply, however has an upside for archivists and historical institutions, which can incorporate individual works or collections to reframe or recast history. The film-makers visit Kevin Young, a poet, collector and director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture at the New York Public Library. Collectors shape collections that end up at archives, containing “the messy bits, the unexpected bits” – Malcom X’s papers, for example, or James Baldwin’s early attempts at plays and ideas scribbled on bar napkins.

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Director DW Young. Photograph: Image courtesy of Peter Bolte And the digital age presents myriad opportunities for welcome new curiosities and voices into collecting and trade that has overwhelmingly catered to the tastes of older white men. “One of things about the internet is that it creates accessibility, it creates more opportunities for diversity, it lessens things like gatekeeping,” said Romney. The internet has “no doubt dramatically changed the trade”, but also opens the possibility for a “golden age of book collecting, because it’s really about your own vision now. It doesn’t have to be the things the dealer specifically offers you or thinks you could only find if you live in a city that has a rare bookshop.”

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Romney and her business partner at Honey & Wax Booksellers in Brooklyn, Heather O’Donnell, have worked to bring more women into the field and established a $1,000 annual prize for female book collectors under the age of 30. Past winners of the prize have specialized in collections ranging from self-published comics known in Japan as dōjinshi to American vegetarian cookbook memorabilia. In the past, said Romney, one’s ability to locate such niche items, especially outside big cities, was extremely limited. Now, you can decide, ‘I want to create a collection about whatever your imagination can come up with.’”

Which leads the trade into cultural traditions and directions outside the so-called canon and stereotypical vision of book collecting as, say, having the money to purchase a first edition copy of Moby Dick. Book collecting can also include print material about sexuality, identity, drug culture, the evolution from dada to punk, hip-hop magazines, pamphlets and ads, kitsch and camp.

The Booksellers interviews, for instance, Arthur Fournier, a rare book dealer who managed the archives of Michael Holman, the first writer to use the words hip-hop in an East Village Eye article in 1982. Fellow hip-hop enthusiast Syreeta Gates collects 90s-era copies of publications such as XXL, Vibe Magazine and The Source that were never digitized. The collections offer a crucial, generative window into what Fournier called the “dreaming together on paper that happened prior to the internet”, the early stages of an art form, before hip-hop solidified as the predominant force in popular music.

But while the film highlights new voices, directions for the trade and younger generations, Romney emphasized that that vision is more aspirational than literal. The trade today remains overwhelmingly white and predominantly over 50; there are still few women. “Those of us who are really thinking about what the trade looks like and what the future of book collecting looks like – that is one of the biggest things that we need to work on: diversity in every sense of the word,” said Romney.

So though people might see headlines of “Leaves of Grass selling for $150k” and think “oh, well, that’s not for me, that’s only for rich people,” the world of rare books is, said Romney, open and ready. “It’s for anyone who is passionate about something. No matter who you are, no matter where you live, no matter what your education or background is – I want people to watch the film and say: oh, I could be part of this.”

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MARCH 6, 2020

A Mysterious Corpus at the New York Antiquarian Book Fair

All illustrations are from the “Europa Redux,” a series of 6,892 color illustrations captioned in an imaginary language. Switzerland, 1940–1946. All images courtesy of Honey and Wax Booksellers.

It’s Armory Week in New York, and while that means partying at the eponymous Armory Show (which, somewhat confusingly, has been quartered at Piers 90 and 94 for the past twenty years) for contemporary art enthusiasts, antiques lovers will be getting their kicks across town, where more than two hundred dealers in rare books, maps, photos, memorabilia, and such have gathered for the sixtieth annual New York Antiquarian Book Fair—the most important event on international book dealers’ calendar—at the Park Avenue Armory. https://www.themagazineantiques.com/article/a-mysterious-corpus-at-the-new-yorkantiquarian-book-fair/

The usual suspects—rubricated Bibles, Renaissance-era anatomy textbooks, and geographically inaccurate Mappae Mundi—predominate, but it was a debutant that drew our eye this year: a collection of keenly observed and confidently composed crayon, oil pastel, and watercolor/body color illustrations of Swiss life during the war years, 1940–1946, which is being offered by Brooklyn’s Honey and Wax Booksellers. The hook (if the scenes themselves fail to entrance) is this: No one knows who the artist was, where exactly he or she was active, or why the artist depicted what he or she did. Most puzzling of all, each image is captioned with strange words that aren’t consistently identifiable as coming from Swiss, German, Esperanto, or any other language spoken in the Alps.

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The gallery’s co-founder, Heather O’Donnell, has invoked the hive mind of the Internet to help solve the mystery of what she tentatively calls “Europa Redux,” creating a dedicated Instagram page where she posts images from and information about the series. It’s fascinating to peruse comments left by users from across the world, some of whom detect whiffs of Swiss-German, Romansch, or a Lombard dialect in unfamiliar words like “Komptoir,” “ruah,” and “Mittingsaia,” or who point out thematic patterns (landscapes, constructivist-like art, and depictions of people working abound, and human characters depicted once do not recur) that may offer clues to the work’s underlying logic. Others see Europa Redux against the backdrop of other mysterious European codices, like the fifteenth or sixteenth century Voynich Manuscript, an encyclopedia or magic book of plants, astrological signs, and anatomically correct nudes, accompanied by undecipherable commentary; and the surrealist Codex Seraphinianus drawn by Luigi Serafini, an ultramontane contemporary of the Europa Redux artist.

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Our two cents? The faultless compositional strategies employed by the artist, taken together with the fact that early panels are clearly copies of European tourist brochures, would seem to indicate the hand of either a professional illustrator or a copyist. And to our linguistically untutored ear the reasoning of @robertgoulding rings probable: “The fact that [the words] don’t seem to conform to any language or phonemes in any language is suspicious. . . . Suggesting to me that they are either a cipher, or there is some method or algorithm used to generate the words.”

We encourage readers (especially codebreakers) to check out @europaredux and help solve the mystery. If you’re game, go see it in person at the armory before some lucky buyer snaps it up.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Which Art Fair Is for You? Let Our Critic Be Your Guide One of New York’s busiest art fair seasons kicks off this week with the Art Show at the Park Avenue Armory. Nine sprawling exhibitions will follow next week. Here’s our critic’s guide.

By Will Heinrich

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This fair is for you if you’re in it for the history. A signed first edition of Allen Ginsberg’s “Howl,” an invitation to Beethoven’s funeral, a first edition of Kierkegaard that’s been to space — there are plenty of reasons to go to the Park Avenue Armory for the 60th anniversary edition of the world’s premier antiquarian book fair. But if you’re committed to a fine-arts tie-in, go for the debonair brass bullet signed by Andy Warhol for his 1982 “Guns Knives Crosses” show in Madrid. (You’ll find it at Schubertiade Music & Arts LLC.) March 5-8; Park Avenue Armory at 643 Park Avenue; nyantiquarianbookfair.com.

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Peeking Into the World of Rare Books 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 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. It’s a kind of Woodstock for the ultra-bookish, where museum-like displays of stunningly bound 16thcentury volumes and illuminated manuscripts are surrounded by booths specializing in rare maps, historical documents, vintage crime novels, counterculture ephemera and just about anything else, as long as it’s (mostly) on paper.

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One veteran dealer interviewed in the early scenes of “The Booksellers,” a documentary opening Friday, just time for this year’s fair, calls it “a roller-coaster ride between tedium and great bits of commerce and discoveries.”

For the less jaded first-time visitor, it can also be an overwhelming explosion of stimulation.

“Going in, you might imagine it’s a bunch of old brown spines, but it’s completely the opposite,” D.W. Young, the film’s director, said last week while sitting in a the suitably book-crammed offices of Sanctuary Books, a rare-book outfit a few blocks from the armory. “It’s just an amazingly visually rich experience.”

Another thing you might not expect: The world of rare books is a surprisingly tactile place.

“I was amazed by how much you can touch,” Judith Mizrachy, one of the film’s producers, said, recalling the first time she visited the shop. “But you realize that these things last. They’re meant to be held, and they’ve made it this far.”

Survival — of books, and of the rare-book business itself — is a major theme of the documentary, which plunges viewers into this world via the passionate, eclectic, undersung people who make it all hum: the booksellers.

It was one of them, Daniel Wechsler, the proprietor of Sanctuary Books, who first brought up the idea of a documentary seven years ago with Young and Mizrachy (with whom he’d collaborated on an earlier documentary, about a New York City street photographer).

By the time they began working on it a few years later, the project had taken on greater urgency, as more figures from their imagined dream cast of characters — like Martin Stone, the British rock guitarist turned book scout — died. (Stone, the story goes, was once considered to replace Brian Jones in the Rolling Stones but chose a life of digging through crates of books instead.)

“This was the generation that really made their mark before the internet,” Wechsler said. “If we didn’t record their contributions, they might not be around much longer.”

The film’s approach is immersive, treating its subjects — mainly booksellers, but also collectors, auctioneers, curators and others up and down the trade’s food chain — less as talking heads than as “jazz soloists,” as Young put it, offering variations on recurring themes. If there’s an underlying bass note, it’s the way the profession is driven by equal parts commerce, scholarship and sheer love.

“Booksellers are providing something beyond the mercantile,” Young said. “They perform a core function of preservation.”

Wechsler, 52, got into the business about 30 years ago, after a post-college stint at Second Story Books outside Washington. A few years ago, he had a brush with fame, or at least the antiquarian bookseller’s version of it, when he and a colleague announced the discovery of an elaborately annotated 1580 dictionary they hypothesized might have belonged to Shakespeare (a claim that has been met with respectful skepticism).

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Sanctuary, housed in an unassuming midcentury office overlooking a tony stretch of Madison Avenue (and open by appointment only), is suitably atmospheric, particularly as the late afternoon light filters in.

Wechsler, right, with the producer Judith Mizrachy and the director D.W. Young.Credit...Melanie Metz for The New York Times “Sometimes bookstores will have that one embarrassing section,” Wechsler said, giving the crammed shelves a self-conscious scan as a photographer began shooting. “But I think this is pretty good right now.”

Still, it’s nothing compared with some of the jaw-dropping spaces the documentary peeks into, like the collector Jay Walker’s M.C. Escher-inspired Library of the History of Human Imagination (complete with floating platforms and glass-paneled bridges); or the vast warehouse of the dealer James Cummins, crammed with 300,000-plus books — New Jersey’s answer to Jorge Luis Borges’s infinite Library of Babel.

And then there are the film’s more alarming settings. In one sequence, the camera follows a dealer on a scouting trip to a stunningly decrepit apartment off Central Park West belonging to a recently deceased academic.

“It was toxic — the mold, the broken windows,” Young recalled. “It was just full of books. And they all had to go somewhere.”

The film explores the ways the internet has radically transformed (some of the gloomier voices might say “destroyed”) the rare-book business, taking away “the dark and murky and fun aspects” of the hunt, as one dealer puts it, while disastrously flooding the market for some kinds of books, like modern first editions. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/05/arts/design/booksellers-movie-antiquarian-bookfair.html

But the filmmakers also show a hopeful infusion of new blood and an opening up to new collecting areas (hip-hop ephemera, zines, comics), new ways of selling and a (somewhat) more diverse demographic.

“The film captures what I love about bookselling, which is that there are lots of different ways to do it,” Heather O’Donnell, the founder of the Brooklyn-based Honey & Wax Booksellers, said in an interview this week. “It’s not some secret elite club.”

Last week, O’Donnell, who appears in the documentary, started posting images to a new Instagram account, @europaredux, in an effort to crowdsource information about one of her offerings at this year’s fair: a collection of 7,000 illustrations from prewar Europe, made by an unidentified Swiss artist who captioned them in an imaginary language.

“Social media has the potential to open things up to so many different kinds of people and different kinds of material,” she said. “You can start as a bookseller with just 10 books on Etsy.”

The New York Antiquarian Book Fair Through Sunday at the Park Avenue Armory, 643 Park Avenue, New York; 212-777-5218, nyantiquarianbookfair.com.

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MARCH 6, 2020

Blueprints for the Original World Trade Center Are on Sale NEW YORK — Blueprints for the original World Trade Center are on sale at the New York International Antiquarian Book Fair after a Colorado man rescued them from the trash.

The set, which includes over 500 plans, is the largest for the Twin Towers ever offered for sale, according to the New York-based James Cummins Bookseller team. Cummins wouldn’t disclose the price but said it is in the six figures.

The 9/11 Memorial & Museum said it does not have a full set of blueprints, and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey said it's unsure if it has one. Many documents were lost in the Sept.

11, 2001 attacks.

The blueprints first left New York in the 1970s when architect Joseph Solomon took them to Denver as a keepsake of his career, the Wall Street Journal reported.

His daughter, Amy Lee Solomon, threw the plans out in May 2018 while cleaning out her father's belongings after his death in November 2017, not realizing their potential value Denver-area resident Jake Haas found what he thought were antique maps in the trash and stopped to collect them.

After seeing references to "Tower A" and "Tower B" Haas realized what the documents were and later sold the set to Angelo Arguello, who owns three pawnshops in the Denver area.

Arguello reached out to Cummins, which is handling the sale on a consignment basis, to ensure the blueprints get the exposure they merit.

Amy Lee Solomon said she is grateful that her father's contribution to a New York landmark is being acknowledged.

"This was the quintessential project of his life," she said.

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in the globalist, pluralist present to try to stake out a spot in art history by changing the way history goes. Donald Judd, pioneer of the 1960s movement called Minimalism (the label wasn’t his; he hated it), thought about this constantly. He wanted, right from the start, to be a big art deal, a super influencer. Long before his death in 1994, at 65, he was.

Major American and European museums owned his work. His signature sculptural image — a no-frills, no-content wood or metal box — had not only been adapted by other artists, but also riffs on it became a fixture of international architecture and design. To some degree, we all lived in Judd-world, and still do.

There is a beautifully complex language of materials to savor in MoMA’s Donald Judd show, his first U.S. survey in 30-plus years.

Yet over time, Judd himself seems to have retreated from view. The survey of 70 works that opens at the Museum of Modern Art on Sunday is the first in New York in more than 30 years. It’s a fine show: carefully winnowed, persuasively installed, just the right size. Its one-word title, “Judd,” suits the artist’s view of his wished-for, worked-for place in history: so assured as to need neither qualifiers nor explanations.

The big, and maybe only surprise, particularly for Judd skeptics, is how really beautiful some of the art looks, how poetic, and mysterious. These were qualities that Judd

Judd Museum of Modern Art, opening Sunday “Untitled” (1986), part of a Donald Judd retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art.

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The Fairest of Them All It’s art fair season in New York, but seeing all the shows is likely impossible. So which ones should you see? Let our critic be your guide.

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The opening of the Art Show on Thursday kicked off a carnival of New York art fairs that won’t stop until March 9. 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. For the gallerists, the process can be nerve-racking. But for everyone else, it’s a blast.

The more you see in a given day, the better

the odds you’ll discover something to love — and even if you don’t, sensory overload has a thrill of its own. And with so many of the exhibitors flying in from abroad, you can essentially travel the world in an afternoon. Just don’t think you’ll get to everything. I recommend wearing sneakers, resisting the urge to over-caffeinate, and putting two — or at most three — of these fairs on your itinerary.

Here’s an overview of some of the more substantial fairs.

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The Armory Show This fair is for you if you want a bit of everything.

The organizers of the enormous Armory Show call it “the essential New York art fair,” and they’re not wrong. Now for its 26th edition, the show includes nearly 200 exhibitors from 32 countries and deftly straddles art worlds past and future. It’s not just the historical work showing alongside paintings that are practically still wet. This year, all of Pier 90 will be devoted to the increasingly fashionable practice of curator-led presentations, with sections helmed by Anne Ellegood and Jamillah James, both of the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, and Nora Burnett Abrams of the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, among others. On Pier 94, you’ll find the same exciting cacophony of multifarious booths that longtime attendees have come to expect. Thursday-March 8; Piers 90 and 94 at 711 12th Avenue; thearmoryshow.com.

Clockwise from left: You can find Sam Gilliam’s “October 1976 (Jones Road #6)” at Art on Paper, Anne Samat’s “Freedom 6... and to be loved” (2017) at the Armory Show and Jeremy Olson’s “Indolent Harvest” (2020) at the Spring/Break Art Show.

The Spring/Break Art Show This fair is for you if you crave excitement.

Now that NADA is a “gallery open” instead of a fair proper, Spring/Break stands alone as the week’s cool-kid party — young, exciting and a little chaotic. This year its 100 or so emerging galleries and independent curators, all of them bringing projects on the theme of “excess,” will be rubbing shoulders across two floors of Ralph Lauren’s former headquarters on Madison Avenue, between 58th and 59th Streets. The quality of the works may vary, but the energy is undeniable. Tuesday-March 9; 625 Madison Avenue; springbreakartshow.com.

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With so many of the exhibitors flying in from abroad, you can essentially travel the world in an afternoon.

This fair is for you if you love being part of a community.

In 2019, the New Art Dealers Alliance had the kind of realization that seems obvious in retrospect: Manhattan itself is already the world’s biggest art fair, all year round. This year’s second annual New York Gallery Open will include artist talks, performances, and more than 60 member gallerists leading tours of gallery shows in Chinatown, Chelsea and the Lower East Side. It’s your chance to get the kind of personal attention they usually reserve for high rollers.

Thursday-March 8; various locations; 212594-0883, newartdealers.org.

The Independent This fair is for you if you want the best.

Carefully curated and stylish, TriBeCa’s Independent tends to feel more like a biennial than a trade show, with nearly a third of its exhibitors from outside the United States.

The curation cuts both ways: You can be sure all the work will look good, but you won’t get the gambler’s high that comes from hunting for a piece that really strikes you. Look out this year for confidently colorful painting, especially the charming intricacies of the self-taught artist Dorothy Iannone, curvy brass sculpture by Hanna Sandin, and a reprise, in case you missed her show at Canada Gallery, of Katherine Bernhardt’s E.T. paintings. March 6-8; Spring Studios at 50 Varick Street; independenthq.com/new-york.

taught Japanese artist Ayako Rokkaku, who will spend the fair painting with her hands and feet, Volta 2020 may represent a triumphant rebirth. We won’t really know till next week, but you can find out for as little as $25, if you book before Tuesday.

Wednesday-March 8 at Metropolitan West, 639 West 46th Street; ny.voltashow.com.

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Volta This fair is for you if you love to travel.

After last year’s edition of Volta was abruptly canceled and memorably reconstituted in Chelsea, the fair returns with new ownership, a new site and a new director, Kamiar Maleki. Bringing together artists from five continents, including the self-

This fair is for you if you’re a sucker for sincerity.

Paper, as opposed to canvas, plaster or steel, has a special resonance for anyone who ever went to elementary school — it’s the medium that makes us all remember when we were artists, too. For professionals, though, paper offers a thousand possibilities, from quick sketches to works as

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powerful and distinctive as painting on canvas. March 6-8; just north of the Manhattan Bridge at Pier 36, 299 South Street; thepaperfair.com.

ade Music & Arts LLC.) Thursday-March 8; Park Avenue Armory, 643 Park Avenue; nyantiquarianbookfair.com.

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This art fair is for you if you love magic.

For more than two decades, this gallery has been hosting a kind of art-fair tasting menu in its Bleecker Street space. (It also has a location in Paris.) Something about the size, and the timing, gives it a magical appeal — it’s like a dollhouse come to life. This year’s edition, titled “The 11 Women of Spirit, Part 1,” is a compact group show of work by 11 female artists. (Part 2 comes in May, in concert with Frieze New York.) Monday-March 8; Zürcher Gallery at 33 Bleecker Street; galeriezurcher.com.

This fair is for you if you’re in it for the history.

A signed first edition of Allen Ginsberg’s “Howl,” an invitation to Beethoven’s funeral, a first edition of Kierkegaard that’s been to space — there are plenty of reasons to go to the Park Avenue Armory for the 60th anniversary edition of the world’s premier antiquarian book fair. But if you’re committed to a fine-arts tie-in, go for the debonair brass bullet signed by Andy Warhol for his 1982 “Guns Knives Crosses” show in Madrid. (You’ll find it at Schuberti-

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A row of green and orange structures stand in the middle of the Dutch painter Rene Daniels’s oil “Kades-Kaden.” They’re buildings, but they’ve been HOCK E AYE VI EDGAR HEAP OF BIRDS AND FORT GANSEVOORT simplified enough to pass for books, too. Floating above them, Above, “Standing Rock Awakens the World” (2019), made of monoprints, is by Edgar Heap of Birds, whose Cheyenne written on a pale blue sky, are name is Hock E Aye Vi. Right, Adrienne Elise Tarver’s “Three Graces” (2019) in her solo show “Escape.”

“Blauwe Reiger” (“blue heron”) and “de Zon” (“the sun”). phrase in a form that viewers bathing suit and brown legs float (2019) is a life-size depiction, Not everything in “Beauty Can can’t easily read, Mr. Wong based on found photographs, of amid ripples of navy, grayish blue Be the Opposite of a Number” at reveals the evocative musical three women who were kept in and aquamarine. The piece, Bureau Gallery, a beguiling group beauty it can have as an abstract 19th-century human zoos. Posing “Head Above Water” (2018), show curated by the gallery pattern. But you still want to amid lush foliage, they look suggests glamorous freedom — owner, Gabrielle Giattino, has know what it means, and in a forlorn yet dignified. I thought of but by the time I encountered it writing in it. There are two looser way, that’s the effect of the them when I returned to “Head again of on my way out, I luscious animal photos by Peter show as a whole. It feels like an Above Water.” Now, instead of understood it differently.

Hujar, a video by Uri Aran and important message which, once seeing a scene of luxury, I The exhibition plays on two Quintessa Matranga’s painting you’ve seen it, won’t let go till imagined one of the women meanings of its title, “Escape”: a “Black Butter Champagne,” which you’ve gotten to the bottom of it. swimming to freedom. vacation getaway and breaking VIA VICTORI + MO shows three alcoholic drinks, each WILL HEINRICH JILLIAN STEINHAUER free of bondage. Ms. Tarver doubled as if by drunkenness, connects them via the tropics, a for some 40 years. “Standing against an upturned table. But frequent subject of hers and a Rock Awakens the World,” his Libby Rothfeld surrounds the region where idyllic beaches can stirring show at Fort Gansevoort, numerals 2 and 5 with mask histories of colonialism. In a isn’t exactly the career survey industrial-beige tile in a pair of series of small collages, she we’ve been waiting for — that will sculptures, Rochelle Feinstein’s require the resources of a major Through March 14. Victori + Mo, 242 frames historical images of Through March 7. Fort Gansevoort, painting “Wrong Wrong” features West 22nd Street, Manhattan; enslaved people and plantation 5 Ninth Avenue, Manhattan; New York museum — but it gives 973-978-1447, victorimo.com.

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Martin Wong spells out its title as The highlights, though, are Ms. The first artwork you see upon Edgar Heap of Birds, whose Much of it has been, and still is, Tarver’s paintings, which are trompe-l’oeil chalk drawings of entering Adrienne Elise Tarver’s Cheyenne name is Hock E Aye Vi, text-based, and no artist better capacious enough to evoke ideas hands signing in A.S.L.: “Man third solo show at Victori + Mo is has been an important figure in understands the political weight of voyeurism and exoticization Carries Unborn Twin Inside His a painting of a woman’s lower contemporary American art, and expressive velocity of alongside beauty. “Three Graces” Head 21 Years.” By encoding this body under water. Her white including Native American art, language. The show’s earliest

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piece, “American Policy II” from 1987, is a mural-like ensemble of 15 pastel drawings composed of English-language phrases evoking the colonial stresses imposed on Native American life.

“Know Young Death” one panel reads. “Relocate Destroy” another says. Drawn with feathered lines and in coded colors, the words are individual images that collectively form a chantlike piece of concrete poetry.

In the show’s similarly monumental 2019 title work, “Standing Rock Awakens the World,” made of dozens of monoprints, the palette is reduced to mostly shades of red-brown and the words are specific in their historical reference. With phrases like “Stop Settler Terror,” and “Water Is Our First Medicine,” written in stark white and in some cases on blood-red ground, the prints read like a wall of placards carried by an invisible army of resisters at the 2016 Dakota Access pipeline protests.

Installed throughout the show are abstract paintings from the artist’s “Neuf Series” (examples here date from 1996 to 2019). A set of steel signs installed in the gallery’s courtyard suggest a Native American claim to that world, or part of it, namely the New York land underfoot.

Although the signs indicate that Indigenous stakeholders have granted us access to that land, history tells us that we have done everything not to earn their welcome.

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The Generational Anxieties of “The Truth” Trouble may be brewing between a mother and a daughter (Catherine Deneuve and Juliette Binoche), but the director Hirokazu Kore-eda’s approach is elliptical to a fault.

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The trees are in their autumn beauty, at the start of “The Truth,” and so is Catherine Deneuve.

She plays a famous French actress named Fabienne—snippy, chic, and radiating effortless hauteur. Her dedication to her art is unyielding. “I prefer to have been a bad mother, a bad friend, and a good actress,” she says. “You may not forgive me, but the public does.” Ever serene, she doesn’t deny the collateral damage that her career may have caused. She just doesn’t care.

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Any resemblance to living persons is, of course, entirely coincidental. Nonetheless, the role of Fabienne is a comically good fit for Deneuve, since it allows her both to fulfill and, ever so lightly, to kid the dominant status that she enjoys in her native land, and in the saga of cinema. You don’t work, as she has done, for Truffaut, Buñuel, Jacques Demy, Leos Carax, and François Ozon—and, let us not forget, alongside Burt Reynolds in Robert Aldrich’s “Hustle” (1975)— without acquiring the crown and scepter, as it were, of a grande dame. Remember Arnaud Desplechin’s “Kings and Queen” (2004), in which Deneuve plays a psychiatrist. “Do you know you’re very beautiful?” a patient asks her. “Yes, I’ve been told, thank you,” she replies.

At the helm of “The Truth” is the Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda, and it marks his first foray into French terrain. The setting is a semi-pastoral patch of Paris, where Fabienne resides in a stately mansion; we see her stroll through its garden in silvery pajamas, rehearsing her lines.

Also taking the air is a pet tortoise, who shares a name with Fabienne’s ex-husband. (So much for that marriage.) Maintaining the animal motif, she wears a leopard-print coat to walk her dog beside the walls of a nearby prison—a deliberate touch of incongruity, halfway to a dream.

Sometimes it takes an outsider’s eye to spot such juxtapositions.

Fabienne is concluding an interview, at home, when guests arrive, fresh off the plane from New York. “It’s nothing. My daughter and her little family,” she explains. That “nothing” freezes the blood. Her daughter is Lumir (Juliette Binoche), a screenwriter, married to a not very successful American actor, Hank (Ethan Hawke), and they’ve come with their young daughter, Charlotte (Clémentine Grenier), who inquires of her grandmother, “Do you really have magical powers?” I wouldn’t bet against it. One reason for the visit is the imminent publication of Fabienne’s memoirs, which bear the very unwise title of “The Truth,” and which, as far as Lumir is concerned, are a pack of shiny lies. One example: her mother claims that she used to pick Lumir up from school. Yeah, right.

You can sense, soon enough, how “The Truth” is likely to proceed. Though trouble may be brewing between Fabienne and Lumir, on the other side of it lies calm. Mother-daughter movies constitute a mini-genre, headed by “Mildred Pierce” (1945), but the melodramatic drive of that film, skirting hysteria, is at a far remove from Kore-eda’s approach. Elliptical to a fault, he is concerned with fears and suspicions that are muted or sidelined, often over many years, rather than being poured forth. Think of the two sets of parents in “Like Father, Like Son” (2013), who discover that their respective sons were accidentally switched at birth. Nothing so drastic occurs in the latest film, yet old wounds wait to be reopened, as when Fabienne admits to Lumir that, contrary to earlier reports, she did once go to see her daughter act, onstage, in “The Wizard of Oz.” “You were lousy,” she adds. Every parent knows the value of a white lie, sweetly timed, but not Fabienne. She tells the truth as if unsheathing a knife.

Why, then, does this supple story begin to falter? Maybe because it comes across, by Kore-eda’s standard, as something of a package, with its arguments neatly folded and wrapped. Fabienne, for instance, just happens to be shooting a sci-fi movie, which is all about a mother who doesn’t age and a daughter who does—“You stay young and I keep getting older,” the daughter declares.

The scene that follows is touchingly done, yet we know that its main purpose is to bolster the theme of generational anxiety. I can’t help wishing that Fabienne were starring in a glossy thriller, or a wisp of a comedy, that bore no relation whatever to problems at home.

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Then, there is a weird request of Fabienne’s. She proposes that Lumir, being a writer, should help her by composing lines of dialogue, to be used in a speech of apology addressed to a disgruntled employee. Again, you can feel the film coiling in upon itself; it’s almost as if Kore-eda, whose films hitherto have been locked into Japanese mores and habitations, doesn’t yet trust himself to dramatize the broad expanses of French society, and therefore trains his gaze inward, upon the woes of this one family. Note also that it’s a standard-issue family, complete with parents and kids, whereas the adults in Kore-eda’s previous movie, the wonderful “Shoplifters” (2018), shivered with uncertainty; their dwelling place was little better than a shack, and a rescued runaway was treated like a daughter. No such worries for Fabienne and her clan. Charlotte is safe, legitimate, and adored, and the cushion of wealth could not be plumper.

Despite these shortfalls, there’s much to relish here. To play a guy like Hank, who must resign himself to being second or fourth fiddle, is a tricky task, but Hawke pulls it off in the quiet style that he has made his own, and there’s an easeful moment when Hank and the others (even Fabienne), emerging from a restaurant by night, slip into an impromptu dance as they mosey down the street. In the end, however, this is the Catherine Deneuve show, and I can already hear the meows of catty delight with which audiences will greet the scene where the topic of great actresses comes up. Many of them, it’s pointed out, have had double initials: Greta Garbo, Danielle Darrieux, Anouk Aimée. How about Brigitte Bardot? somebody asks, and Fabienne answers with a moue. Not just any moue, either, but a supermoue—a whole cultural attitude distilled into a single boffff. And yet Fabienne, though frosty, is not impermeable, and in the final minutes, with the seasons changing and the leaves falling, she lifts her immaculate face to the winter light.

Something stirs within her, even now, beneath the ice.

When a movie called “The Booksellers” comes along, you can’t help pausing over the title.

Might it be Mob slang? You can imagine a Martin Scorsese film in which “bookseller” means a guy in a dusty jacket, whose job is to pop other guys, smack in the flyleaf, leaving the cops badly foxed. As it is, “The Booksellers”—a new documentary, directed by D. W. Young—really is about people who sell books, though they are, in their way, as implacable as gangsters. Show them a copy of “Moby-Dick” in which Melville has doodled little cartoon whales, and they’ll cut your throat to get it.

There’s no narrative to the film. It’s more of a social event: a congregation of the faithful, whom we first encounter at the New York International Antiquarian Book Fair, in the Park Avenue Armory. The dealers’ mission, one declares, is to “inculcate neophytes into the wonder of the object of the book.” (Translation: get the suckers hooked.) We glimpse one volume containing mammoth hair; another covered in human skin, with teeth embedded in the cover; and a librarian doll, “with Amazing push-button Shushing Action!” We meet the collector Justin Schiller, who was still in seventh grade when he lent some of his L. Frank Baum material to Columbia University, and the three graceful sisters who rule over the Argosy Book Store, on Fifty-ninth Street, having jointly inherited the throne from their father, Louis Cohen. If King Lear had gone into the book trade, he could have saved himself a world of grief.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/03/23/the-generational-anxietiesof-the-truth

MARCH 6, 2020

Blueprints for the original World Trade Center are on sale Blueprints for the original World Trade Center are on sale until Sunday at the New York International Antiquarian Book Fair NEW YORK (AP) — Blueprints for the original World Trade Center are on sale at the New York International Antiquarian Book Fair after a Colorado man rescued them from the trash.

The set, which includes over 500 plans, is the largest for the Twin Towers ever offered for sale, according to the New York-based James Cummins Bookseller team. Cummins wouldn’t disclose the price but said it is in the six figures.

The 9/11 Memorial & Museum said it does not have a full set of blueprints, and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey said it’s unsure if it has one. Many documents were lost in the Sept.

11, 2001 attacks.

The blueprints first left New York in the 1970s when architect Joseph Solomon took them to Denver as a keepsake of his career, the Wall Street Journal reported.

His daughter, Amy Lee Solomon, threw the plans out in May 2018 while cleaning out her father’s belongings after his death in November 2017, not realizing their potential value Denver-area resident Jake Haas found what he thought were antique maps in the trash and stopped to collect them.

After seeing references to “Tower A” and “Tower B” Haas realized what the documents were and later sold the set to Angelo Arguello, who owns three pawnshops in the Denver area.

Arguello reached out to Cummins, which is handling the sale on a consignment basis, to ensure the blueprints get the exposure they merit.

Amy Lee Solomon said she is grateful that her father’s contribution to a New York landmark is being acknowledged.

“This was the quintessential project of his life,” she said.

The New York International Antiquarian Book Fair runs until Sunday and is held at the Park Avenue Armory in Manhattan. https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation/blueprints-for-the-original-world-tradecenter-are-on-sale/

MARCH 6, 2020

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MARCH 5, 2020

Rare World Trade Center Blueprints Are Up for Sale The documents, which carry a six-figure price tag, had been found in the trash

By Charles Passy

A selection of blueprints at James Cummins Bookseller in Manhattan details the overall elevation of the World Trade Center towers.

Photo: Caitlin Ochs for Wall Street Journal

When veteran architect Joseph Solomon left New York City for Denver in the 1970s, he brought along a work-related keepsake: a set of blueprints for the World Trade Center, one of the key projects of his career up until that time.

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Now, almost a half-century later, the set has returned home after an unlikely odyssey—which includes them being salvaged from the trash.

James Cummins Bookseller, a Manhattan-based dealer of rare books, autographs and other items, is selling the World Trade Center documents at the New York International Antiquarian Book Fair running Thursday through Sunday at the Park Avenue Armory. The Cummins team wouldn’t comment on the exact sale price but said it is in the six figures.

The Solomon set of blueprints is a window into the World Trade Center from its earliest envisioning.

Photo: Caitlin Ochs for The Wall Street Journal

The set is the largest one of World Trade Center blueprints ever offered for sale, the Cummins team said, with more than 500 plans (or “leaves”) covering the Twin Towers and other site components. The set dates from the late ’60s through the early ’70s; the center opened officially on April 4, 1973.

The bookseller said that smaller sets of World Trade Center blueprints have been sold in the past.

But it also said those sets were connected to the reconstruction of the World Trade Center after the site’s 1993 bombing.

The Solomon set, on the other hand, is a window into the Trade Center from its earliest envisioning.

“I think you do get a sense of what a massive undertaking this was,” said Brian Kalkbrenner, a seller with James Cummins. https://www.wsj.com/articles/rare-world-trade-center-blueprints-are-up-for-sale11583364270

But the story of how the set came up for sale is perhaps just as noteworthy as the blueprints themselves.

Mr. Solomon worked on the Trade Center project as a junior partner in Emery Roth & Sons, a prominent New York architectural firm that came up with the plan for the site in partnership with the architect Minoru Yamasaki.

The size and scope of the Trade Center made the project no easy task, said Richard Roth Jr., a former president of the company and grandson of its namesake. “I would have gone crazy� doing it, said Mr. Roth, who is now retired in Florida.

A Denver-area resident discovered the Solomon blueprints in the trash.

Photo: Caitlin Ochs for The Wall Street Journal

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Mr. Solomon headed to Denver with his family in the ’70s as the construction business languished in New York, according to Amy Lee Solomon, his daughter. The set of Trade Center blueprints was “one of the things he took with him,” she said.

He died in Denver in November 2017 at the age of 89, having spent years continuing his work as an architect in Colorado.

By May 2018, his daughter decided it was time to go through her father’s belongings and clear some space in the house. The set of blueprints, stored in the garage on top of some old cabinets, were among the items she tossed, not thinking there might be any potential value to them.

Enter Jake Haas, a Denver-area resident who often buys and sells antiques and collectibles. He happened to be driving past the Solomon house that day in May and noticed the pile of trash.

He stopped because he thought he spotted some antique maps, “stuff that could be worth $40 or $50 apiece,” he said.

It was only when he got home and started taking a closer look at what he had gathered—not maps but blueprints—that he started to put it all together. Particularly when he saw the references to “Tower A” and “Tower B.” Mr. Haas eventually sold the set to Angelo Arguello, an owner of three pawnshops in the Denver area, for an undisclosed sum. In turn, Mr. Arguello found his way to James Cummins, sensing he needed to work with a New York dealer to give the item proper exposure.

Mr. Arguello said the item is being sold via the Cummins team on a consignment basis. Mr. Cummins wouldn’t comment on the terms of the arrangement.

Adding to the blueprints’ potential value is the fact even institutions closely connected with the World Trade Center lack such a complete set.

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The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, the owner of the original World Trade Center site, can’t definitively say if it has a complete set of blueprints at this point.

Photo: Caitlin Ochs for The Wall Street Journal

The 9/11 Memorial & Museum said it has only select blueprints from the site’s development. And the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, the owner of the original World Trade Center site, can’t say definitively whether it possesses a complete set at this point. Many of the authority’s documents were lost on Sept. 11, 2001, since it had offices in the Trade Center.

Ms. Solomon said she doesn’t begrudge Mr. Haas his find or the sellers who stand to profit off it.

If anything, she said she is grateful that others saw what she missed and that her father’s contribution to a New York landmark is now being recognized.

“This was the quintessential project of his life,” she said.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/rare-world-trade-center-blueprints-are-up-for-sale11583364270

MARCH 6, 2020

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A selection of rare World Trade Center blueprints at James Cummins Bookseller in Manhattan details the overall elevation of the towers. The documents up for sale, which carry a six-figure price tag, had been found in the trash.

PHOTO: CAITLIN OCHS FOR WSJ

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MARCH 6, 2020

Blueprints for the original World Trade Center are on sale Blueprints for the original World Trade Center are on sale until Sunday at the New York International Antiquarian Book Fair NEW YORK (AP) — Blueprints for the original World Trade Center are on sale at the New York International Antiquarian Book Fair after a Colorado man rescued them from the trash.

The set, which includes over 500 plans, is the largest for the Twin Towers ever offered for sale, according to the New York-based James Cummins Bookseller team. Cummins wouldn’t disclose the price but said it is in the six figures.

The 9/11 Memorial & Museum said it does not have a full set of blueprints, and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey said it’s unsure if it has one. Many documents were lost in the Sept.

11, 2001 attacks.

The blueprints first left New York in the 1970s when architect Joseph Solomon took them to Denver as a keepsake of his career, the Wall Street Journal reported.

His daughter, Amy Lee Solomon, threw the plans out in May 2018 while cleaning out her father’s belongings after his death in November 2017, not realizing their potential value Denver-area resident Jake Haas found what he thought were antique maps in the trash and stopped to collect them.

After seeing references to “Tower A” and “Tower B” Haas realized what the documents were and later sold the set to Angelo Arguello, who owns three pawnshops in the Denver area.

Arguello reached out to Cummins, which is handling the sale on a consignment basis, to ensure the blueprints get the exposure they merit.

Amy Lee Solomon said she is grateful that her father’s contribution to a New York landmark is being acknowledged.

“This was the quintessential project of his life,” she said.

The New York International Antiquarian Book Fair runs until Sunday and is held at the Park Avenue Armory in Manhattan. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/blueprints-for-the-original-world-trade-centerare-on-sale/2020/03/06/c3fdd468-5fd3-11ea-ac50-18701e14e06d_story.html

MARCH 5, 2020

Everything You Need to Eat, Drink, See, and Do in NYC This Weekend

By Rachel Pelz

Bring out your nerdy side at a book fair Weekend-long Upper East Side Calling all bookworms: While Netflix and HBO Go might be slowly killing off your kind, the ABAA New York International Book Fair is here to bring you back to life. More than 200 book dealers will fill the Park Ave Armory with rare books and maps for you to browse and buy. First editions, freaky medical textbooks, and illustrated manuscripts make for great gifts, collectibles, or just a long, lazy afternoon lost to browsing the wares.

Cost: Tickets start at $25 https://www.thrillist.com/events/new-york/things-to-do-in-nyc-this-weekend

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Spring Queens

Sashay into warmer days with the New York contestants on RuPaul’s Drag Race.

THINGS TO DO RIGHT NOW

Salute the abundant beauty and art of Asian cultures across 38 free gallery exhibitions that’ll showcase textiles, ceramics, furniture, sculpture, paintings and jewelry from as far back as the 14th century. More than 16 museums, societies and cultural centers are taking part, including the Met, the Asia Society and the China Institute.

Locations vary (asia weekny.com). Thu 12–Thu 19 at various times; free.

Pastrytown Forget everything you think you know about beer: This festival of dessertflavored hops will have you sipping

unlimited pastry stouts, barrel-aged barley wines, mead and fruited Berliners.

If that’s not enough sweetness for you, there will be paired desserts and, strangely enough, live wrestling matches.

Industry City, Sunset Park (pastrytownotherhalfbrewing .com). Sun 7 11am–4pm; $100 and up.

Bauhaus Night Delve deep into the history of the Bauhaus, the German school that’s renowned for its impact on modern and contemporary art.

Learn how the school incorporated queer identity, gender fluidity and the occult into its thinking.

The Cooper Union, East Village (cooper.edu). Mon 16 at 6:30pm; free.

Time Out New York March 4–17, 2020

At this messy Holi Hai brunch party, you’ll be speckled with green, pink, yellow and red powdered paint, so wear all white to make those colors pop.

Celebrated across the world, the holiday marks the start of spring, and the blossoming of love will be celebrated here with live music, food and a cash bar.

Stage48, Hell’s Kitchen (stage48.com). Sat 7, 14, 21 noon–7pm; $25–$35.

Science-fiction films The Philip K. Dick Film Festival is back with exciting, provoking and just plain weird movies, such as the psychedelic Imperial Blue (2019), which tells the tale of a drug that lets you see the future; Eli (2019), in which a teen musician believes he has an alien implant in his ear; and Love Bite, a Blade

Runner producer’s take on the zombie apocalypse.

The Museum of the Moving Image, Long Island City (thephilipkdickfilm festival.com). Wed 4–Sun 8 at various times; per screening $15.

New York Whiskey and Spirits Festival Dram fans will find a haven at this fest, which boasts more than 100 types of whiskey as well as vodka, tequila

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and local beer.

Enthusiasts can speak with experts and listen to music as they sip.

The Tunnel Nightclub, Chelsea (newyorkcitywhiskeyfest .com). Sat 7 1–4pm and 6–9pm; $15 and up.

Antiquarian Book Fair This festival for book lovers convenes at Park Avenue Armory for a full weekend of first editions, maps, manuscripts

and other literary treasures from more than 200 exhibitors.

On Sunday, pros will be on hand to appraise your own collection.

Park Avenue Armory, Upper East Side (nyantiquarianbookfair.com).

Thu 5 5–9pm, Fri 6 noon–8pm, Sat 7 noon–7pm, Sun 8 noon–5pm; $25 and up.

Pub Choir Equal parts music, comedy and drinking, this Aussie show takes a crowd

PHOTOGRAPH: COURTESY UNSPLASH/DARPAN DODIYA

Asia Week New York

Holi Hai Festival of Colors

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Antiquarian Book Fair Things to do, Literary events Park Avenue Armory , Lenox Hill Thursday March 5 2020 Sunday March 8 2020

Photograph: Courtesy of the New York International Antiquarian Book Fair

Time Out says Now in its 60th year, this festival for book collectors convenes at Park Avenue Armory for a full weekend of first editions, maps, manuscripts and other treasures from literary epochs past from more than 200 exhibitors. Bring your own collection of ephemera on Sunday to get priced by the pros.

https://www.timeout.com/newyork/things-to-do/antiquarian-book-fair

Details Event website: https://www.nyantiquarianbookfair.com/

Venue name: Park Avenue Armory 643 Park Ave Address: New York 10065 Cross street: between 66th and 67th Sts Transport: Subway: F to Lexington Ave–63rd St; 6 to 68th St–Hunter College Price: $25/day, run of show $45.

Dates And Times • •

Th Mar 5 2020 o Park Avenue Armory $25/day, run of show $45.

Su Mar 8 2020 o Park Avenue Armory $25/day, run of show $45.

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February 22, 2020

Events for March are Flowery and Very Green

By Suzanna Bowling

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From art to film festivals galore. March events in New York revolve around flowers and St. Patrick’s Day.

https://t2conline.com/events-for-march-are-flowery-and-very-green/

3/ 1: Order reserved seats for ballroom, Latin, rhythm, and smooth dance heats at New York Dance Festival in ballrooms at the Roosevelt Hotel.

3/ 1: New York Wild Film Festival screens 32 films about wildlife and wild places at The Explorers Club. (Except Feb. 27 is at The Paley Center for Media.)

3/ 1: Athena Film Festival “showcases films about strong and courageous women leaders in real life and the fictional world” at Barnard College.

3/ 1 – 15: New York International Children’s Film Festival shows new, inspiring, and thought-provoking films about youth from around the world, suitable for families. Closed weekdays except Feb. 21.

https://t2conline.com/events-for-march-are-flowery-and-very-green/

3/ 1 – 4/ 19: The Orchid Show fills the conservatory at the New York Botanical Garden with thousands of orchids in an amazing array of colors, shapes, sizes, and textures.

3/ 4: Sample wine from 150 top Italian vintners at the walk-around event Great Wines of Italy at IAC on W. 18th Street.

3/ 4 – 8: Philip K. Dick Science Fiction Film Festival screens dozens of unusual films “that challenge the viewers reality with ideas and concepts not normally found in conventional stories” at Museum of the Moving Image. Directors appear at some screenings.

3/ 5 – 8: Clio Art Fair is a curated fair in Chelsea featuring artists without exclusive gallery representation.

3/ 5 – 8: New York International Antiquarian Book Fair features 200 dealers of rare books, maps, and manuscripts at the Park Avenue Armory.

3/ 5 – 8: See contemporary art from the world’s leading galleries at The Armory Show at Piers 90 and 94. https://t2conline.com/events-for-march-are-flowery-and-very-green/

3/ 5 – 15: See the best of contemporary French films, including premieres, plus panel discussions at Rendez-Vous with French Cinema. All films have English subtitles.

3/ 6 – 8: Art on Paper features galleries exhibiting drawings, paintings, photography, and even sculpture incorporating paper at Pier 36.

3/ 7: New York City Whiskey Festival features 100 styles of whiskey, bourbon, gin, tequila, and vodka with live music and food for sale at The Tunnel for age 21+.

3/ 7: The NYC Winter Wine Festival features 250 wines, light hors d’oeuvres, and live jazz at Webster Hall for age 21+.

3/ 8: Cochon 555 is a stand-up tasting featuring dozens of chef-made dishes plus wine, cocktails, and beer at The Altman Building for age 21+.

3/ 12 – 19: Asia Week New York includes exhibitions at galleries and museums, art auctions, sales, panel discussions, lectures, curator talks, tours, and workshops.

3/ 14: Enjoy games, craft-making, music, and dance at the St. Patrick’s Open Day at the Irish Arts Center. Free.

3/ 15: Follow clues on a three-hour adventure around New York City with the help of a smartphone app on The Amazing St. Patrick’s Day Scavenger Hunt, which begins at Slattery’s Pub for age 21+.

3/ 15 – 22: SR Socially Relevant Film Festival screens films that contain “socially relevant film content and everyday positive human stories” in four Manhattan venues.

3/ 17: Billed as the world’s oldest and largest St. Patrick’s parade, New York City Saint Patrick’s Day Parade celebrates Irish culture and the Catholic faith on 5th Avenue from 44th to 79th. No alcohol or pets. Free.

3/ 18 – 22: CineKink NYC shows films and videos that celebrate and explore a wide diversity of sexuality at Anthology Film Archives. It also offers panel discussions, audience choice awards, a kick-off party, and an after-party.

3/ 19 – 22: Find inspiration for home improvement, shop for home products, and attend design seminars at the Architectural Digest Design Show at Pier 94. Thursday costs more. Children age 11 and younger are free.

https://t2conline.com/events-for-march-are-flowery-and-very-green/

3/ 22 – 4/ 5: See spectacular arrangements of flowers from around the world and attend scheduled events at Macy’s Flower Show in the store on Herald Square. Free.

3/ 25- 4/ 5: See films by emerging or not-yet-established international filmmakers at New Directors/New Films at Lincoln Center and the Museum of Modern Art. 3/ 26 – 29: Browse contemporary paintings, prints, sculptures, and photographs from 70 galleries at Affordable Art Fair, with workshops and talks at the Metropolitan Pavilion in Chelsea.

3/ 27: Movie Night: The Scores of John Williams. The New York Pops celebrates the five-time Academy Award–winning genius who brought musical life to all your favorite films, including Jaws, Star Wars, Indiana Jones, and Harry Potter. At 8pm catch the concert, but at 2:30 you can catch the working rehearsal.

3/ 28: New York Peace Film Festival screens “films from around the world that advance global peace” at the Unitarian Church of All Souls. Free registration.

3/ 28: NYC Craft Distillers Festival has samples of 60 craft spirits, a 1920s jazz band, and a prohibition theme at The Bowery Hotel for age 21+.

3/ 28: Wine on Wheels features 200 wines served by 60 sommeliers with hors d’oeuvres, plus 20-minute wine seminars and an auction at City Winery.

3/ 29 (2 p.m.): Total Vocal includes stars from “Pitch Perfect” singing all-vocal arrangements of pop hits at Carnegie Hall.

https://t2conline.com/events-for-march-are-flowery-and-very-green/

MARCH 6, 2020

Blueprints for the original World Trade Center are on sale Blueprints for the original World Trade Center are on sale until Sunday at the New York International Antiquarian Book Fair NEW YORK (AP) — Blueprints for the original World Trade Center are on sale at the New York International Antiquarian Book Fair after a Colorado man rescued them from the trash.

The set, which includes over 500 plans, is the largest for the Twin Towers ever offered for sale, according to the New York-based James Cummins Bookseller team. Cummins wouldn’t disclose the price but said it is in the six figures.

The 9/11 Memorial & Museum said it does not have a full set of blueprints, and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey said it’s unsure if it has one. Many documents were lost in the Sept.

11, 2001 attacks.

The blueprints first left New York in the 1970s when architect Joseph Solomon took them to Denver as a keepsake of his career, the Wall Street Journal reported.

His daughter, Amy Lee Solomon, threw the plans out in May 2018 while cleaning out her father’s belongings after his death in November 2017, not realizing their potential value Denver-area resident Jake Haas found what he thought were antique maps in the trash and stopped to collect them.

After seeing references to “Tower A” and “Tower B” Haas realized what the documents were and later sold the set to Angelo Arguello, who owns three pawnshops in the Denver area.

Arguello reached out to Cummins, which is handling the sale on a consignment basis, to ensure the blueprints get the exposure they merit.

Amy Lee Solomon said she is grateful that her father’s contribution to a New York landmark is being acknowledged.

“This was the quintessential project of his life,” she said.

The New York International Antiquarian Book Fair runs until Sunday and is held at the Park Avenue Armory in Manhattan. https://www.usnews.com/news/us/articles/2020-03-06/blueprints-for-the-original-worldtrade-center-are-on-sale

MARCH 4, 2020

Spell bound: preview New York’s Antiquarian Book Fair Who said print is dead? The 60th anniversary of the world’s finest antiquarian book fair proves otherwise

By Tilly Macalister-Smith

The New York International Antiquarian Book Fair celebrates its 60th year this weekend – continuing to happily disprove the rhetoric that print has had its day. Held at the Park Avenue Armory, (not to be confused with The Armory Art Show, which takes place across town at the midtown Piers during the same dates), bibliophiles, collectors, scholars and amateur enthusiasts descend from all corners of the globe to glove up and leaf pages. Over 200 sellers will be showcasing rare books, illuminated manuscripts, brilliant bindings, and antique printed ephemera.

https://www.wallpaper.com/art/new-york-antiquarian-book-fair-2020

Here’s our pick of the best examples of rare, out of print and artfully-designed books that will be on show, and available to purchase.

Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books, Stockholm

Illustrations from the 1925 folio issued by Jozsef and Lajos Kovacs (also pictured top) Journeying from Stockholm to the Armory, the Du Rietz family has been selling antique books since the 1950s, in particular books on great voyages and intrepid travel, Asia and Africa, and rare illustrated fashion and textiles books.

This immaculate 1925 Hungarian folio comprises 20 vibrantly illustrated designs in remarkably vivid original colour. Taking inspiration from the country’s traditional folk art, its Art Decostyle patterned front cover has its original cloth ties. This book was issued by Jozsef and Lajos Kovacs who founded the first Hungarian painting template factory. Other books on Du Rietz’s stand include original illustrated Biba tomes from Barbara Hulanicki’s London fashion emporium, a well-preserved edition of Art Deco wallpaper designs by the French manufacturer Paul Gruin and a wonderful selection on Japanese Kabuki make-up and dress.

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Fluemann’s, Zurich

Top, Joris Karl Husmans novel, A Rebours, 1903. Bottom, Michel Houellebecq’s 2015 publication, Soumission

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Specialising in first editions, Zurich-based Fluemann’s has some extraordinary marvels. This magnificent first edition of Joris Karl Husmans novel, A Rebours, dates back to 1903. The striking cover is the handiwork of binding extraordinaire, Pierre Legrain. To create this cover, Legrain inlaid precision-cut dyed leather with precious mother of pearl. Inside, 220 woodcuts by Auguste Lepere are printed in rich colour, and typography nuts will love the text, which is in the eponymously named typeface, Auriol, by French polymath Georges Auroil – all of which arguably justify the five-figure price tag.

Also worth a look is the staggering craftsmanship of Brother Edward Claes, a Dutch monk renowned for his exacting and innovative binding skills. He developed this cover, alongside a painted box, to house contemporary French author Michel Houellebecq’s 2015 publication, Soumission (or Submission).

Librarie Camille Sourget, Paris

Buffon, 1942 Camille Sourget opened her bookshop in Paris in 2008, although her family’s expertise in antiquarian books stretches back to her grandparents rare bookshop where Sourget caught the bug.

Now she arrives in New York to showcase, among other treasures, this 1942 book of original Pablo Picasso 63 etchings. Simply titled Buffon (after Comte de Buffon’s 18th century illustrated survey of natural history), the etchings depict animals on Japanese paper with gilt edges. Its contemporary leather and gold binding features a butterfly motif and naturalistic curlicue patterns is by Madeleine Gras. § Information The New York International Antiquarian Book Fair, Park Avenue Armory, 5 March – 8 March. nyantiquarianbookfair.com https://www.wallpaper.com/art/new-york-antiquarian-book-fair-2020

MARCH 6, 2020

Expensive World Trade Center blueprints up for sale at New York City book fair

Blueprints for the original World Trade Center are being offered at the New York International Antiquarian Book Fair.

https://news.yahoo.com/expensive-world-trade-center-blueprints-042821645.html

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MARCH 9, 2020

The To-Do List: Things to do in NYC this weekend, March 6 - 8 (some are free!)

By Kimberly Dole

https://1010wins.radio.com/articles/best-things-to-do-in-nyc-this-weekendmarch-6-8

NEW YORK (1010 WINS) -- With spring quickly approaching, there's so much to see and do.

Enjoy the weekend's mild weather and explore the city. Whatever it is that you're looking to do, we've got you covered with the best food, drinks, shows and music the area has to offer.

Annual New York International Antiquarian Book Fair Book lovers can peruse through a vast selection of rare books, maps, manuscripts, illuminated manuscripts and Ephemera this weekend. All books, manuscripts and related material have been carefully examined by experienced professionals for completeness and bibliographic accuracy.

Where: Park Avenue Armory When: Saturday, March 7, 12 p.m. - 7 p.m., Sunday March 8, 12 p.m. - 5 p.m.

Cost: $25

https://1010wins.radio.com/articles/best-things-to-do-in-nyc-this-weekendmarch-6-8