Thank you very much to everyone who attended, made contributions, purchased raffle tickets, contributed their artwork, and just helped out in so many ways to making yesterday's Benefit Party at the Center for Book Arts such a wonderful event.

We look forward to sharing with you more photos from the event soon. For now, here's a shot of the marvelous Martha Malinowski from Sotheby's who presided over our Live Auction. The artwork was extraordinary this year, as you'll see here in the photo of white-gloved Nicholas Crawford exhibiting the artist book "The Slapdown" by Damara Kaminecki & Jeremy Schmall, with Bryan Baker's monumental suite of six dice prints behind him.

In total, 40 works of original artwork were auctioned off through the Silent and Live Auctions -- and it was a splendid array of art. Again, thanks to all!

Photo credit: Zahra Partovi.