Specialists in culturally significant 19th, 20th, and 21stcentury archival material from a wide range of creative disciplines, as well as manuscripts, correspondence, and. Glenn horowitz bookseller has a gallery on newtown lane in east hampton. We see book fairs, and rare book auctions and dusty old caverns with crusty old owners. How a manhattan rarebook dealer has used unyielding persistence to build a booming market in writers archives and add glitz to a profession. One leading alchemist is a manhattan rare book dealer named glenn horowitz, who in recent years has come to dominate the rarefied market in. Rare book dealer glenn horowitz talks about what is important. Glenn horowitz bookseller 87 newtown ln east hampton, ny. Glenn horowitz to open new manhattan gallery across from moma.
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To commemorate that intensely creative scene, miller walsh has curated a number of artworks, photographs and ephemera that will be on display at rare glenn horowitz. Glenn specializes in nineteenth, twentieth, and twentyfirst century manuscripts, correspondence. Specialists in culturally significant 19th, 20th, and 21stcentury archival material from a wide range of creative disciplines, as well as manuscripts. Buying rare books as gifts the new antiquarian the. Glenn horowitz bookseller, east hampton, ny philip taaffe at. It is a bit new yorkcentric although there are a couple of outliers from london which is as it should be new york has always been the world headquarters for books. Unlike some other trades, book dealers have never been afraid. After working for glenn horowitz for ten years, james decided to return to school in pursuit of a phd in german literature, which he received from princeton university. Next week, glenn horowitz bookseller will open a new gallery in manhattan, called rare, which will showcase editions, manuscripts, letters. A reception for the artists will be held on may 25, from 68 pm. The bookseller glenn horowitz is one of the top brokers of literary.
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We had the book launch for mississippi history on dec. This week, glenn horowitz bookseller will open its new manhattan gallery. Glenn horowitz, a rare book dealer who handled the auction for mr. This past january, bookseller glenn horowitz opened rare, a midtown gallery to showcase first editions, manuscripts, letters, archival material, fine art, photography, and decorative arts from the 19th century to the present. The remaining 7 book lots were thereafter entrusted to the defendants with the understanding that they would be sold for an agreedupon commission of 20%.
It was at a rare book fair in london that a dealer sensing that i was indianor at least south asiancame up to me and asked if i knew glenn horowitz. Through april 18, it will host the archive and artwork of hungarianborn abstract artist sari dienes. But books are where he started specifically, in the rarebook room of the. Glenn horowitz bookseller, in east hampton, new york, specializes in rare books on gardening, photography, art, design, and nineteenth and twentiethcentury literature. Tomorrow evening glenn horowitz bookseller will open rare, a 1,000squarefoot gallery space to showcase first editions, manuscripts, letters, archival material, fine art, photography, and decorative arts from the 19th century to the present, according to a press release. Like any field of endeavor, the rare book trade has its quirks and rituals, its habits and history, its jargon and secrets.
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