Interest in the upcoming book auctions. According to Anatoly Borovkov
ARTinvestment.RU   16 ноября 2012

In the pre-Christmas and pre-Christmas time in search of gifts our people are increasingly coming to the auctions - including for book auctions. The organizers, of course, be prepared

weeks before Christmas and New year - while searching for gifts and time of the antique auctions, the number of which in Russia will soon block the number of galleries and antique shops. Indeed, the townsfolk auctions seem a place where you acquire a thing for a fair price in a fair fight. Often this is true. Although there are times when the auctioneers are forced to pull the prices of some lots to the so-called reserve price set by the deliverer (the minimum price for which the deliverer agree to sell the thing.) And if it does not pass, then the thing allegedly sold at an auction, you can already see later on another auction for much less from supposedly achieved at the auction price. But let us leave aside some cunning tricks and trade back for upcoming events - book auctions, today announced the end of the year.

in the catalog next auction "Russian auction house," November 17 - 26 book lots. As they say, "but the roads in small packages." Among these, there are three lots with the status of "international", that is capable of competing with any auction, including Sotheby's and Christie's. This book: "The mare's milk" (lot 94), published in 1914, futurists, "Slap Public Taste" (lot 98), also published by the Futurists in 1913 (by the way, here for the first time in the press Mayakovsky) , and "The City" A. Rubakin with lithographs Natalia Goncharova (Lot 104), published in Paris in 1920. The books are good, in a great collectible form, but the starting price, of course - oh! Lot 94 - 12,000 dollars, Lot 98 - 4000 dollars, Lot 104 - $ 11 000. Perhaps the only "slap ..." evaluated more or less correctly.

November 18, Sunday, holds the auction the auction house "Empire." In the beautiful catalog published noteworthy first edition of Pushkin's "Boris Godunov." Copy with defects, so his score is low - only 300 000. There are several Masonic publications, which for some reason began to appear frequently in our auctions, despite their rarity.

an auction on November 21 "Cabinet", and he is - December 20. Very large array of books and prints. There is also a futurist, and Russian books rarity. Interesting collection of first editions of his lifetime of Saltykov-Shchedrin, "Moscow reconstructed» Alexander Mikhailovich Rodchenko and Stepanova (although the price of a tall), rare lithographs folder "Our Century" K. Chichagova (missing in the collection of Smirnov-Sokolsky) complete collection of lithographed editions Pavel Kuznetsov and more. And most importantly, well-edited directory.

November 22 and December 8 auction will be held at the "House of antique books on Nikitsky." First, perhaps, is common in this house many books, mainly associated with the Patriotic War of 1812. The impression is that this is at the last auction nedoprodannye edition, with which were rich in the previous auction. Many books on Russian history, but I think that as long as the Internet is not all published catalog. But the auction on December 8 titled "Unico and rarities" replete with a masterpiece, and it is difficult to imagine anything in this review - it is necessary to look a printed catalog and see their de visu. True, confuse low initial price. Did they persecute phone indefinitely?

November 29 announced the "auction season" in "Gelos", but while on the site only about a dozen names, nothing outstanding. I think that last November 15 auction Thong satirical magazines, 1905-1907, mostly confiscated and destroyed, it is much more interesting.

Another auction announced by the magazine "About the book" on December 14. There will be presented 75 books of the family A. Tarasenkova known collector of poetry of the early twentieth century. But the descriptions I have not found the masterpieces of this period, in particular books Russian Futurists, is in the collection of Anatoly Tarasenkova, author of the famous bibliography, which was later supplemented slightly L. Turchinsky.

remarkable auction Christie's, scheduled for November 21. Of Russian editions there only about 10 lots, but among them: the first book of Leo Tolstoy's "War Stories" in 1856 with the estimate of $ 11 000, the first two chapters of Pushkin's "Eugene Onegin" with the assessment years 1825-1826 to $ 15 000 and for some reason unreasonably high priced - as much as 19 000 - smirdinskoe "Housewarming" in 1833.

Finally, I want to dilute the Russian foreign review auctions auction Bonhams, appointed on December 5 in New York and dedicated only to the Russian edition of the first third of the twentieth century, mostly Russian avant-garde. More than one hundred lots put Lur'e - known collector who has the world's best collection of Russian and Soviet children's books. Not all well-regarded publication in the directory, but the number is pleasantly surprising. Have not been offered for sale a number of avant-garde.

So, we will wait for the outcome of an auction. A week ahead of antique book fair in the "non /fiction № 14" in the Central House of Artists from 28 November.

Anatoly Borovkov, a member of the International Confederation of antique and art dealers, an expert on books and printed graphics Russian avant 1910-30's



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