January/February 2005
Features
Cervantes’s Wild Ride
By Scott Brown—Don Quixote, written
by a washed-up ex-con, lives on after 400 years.
Mark Twain in a Wooden Barrel
By Kurt Zimmerman—The Clemens
family library is found at the bottom of a barrel.
By Derek Hayes—Explorers and mapmakers
invented a giant Western river.
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Life After Wartime
By Heather Hoffart—The story behind
the Sue Barton nursing series.
columns
Gently Mad
By Nicholas Basbanes—Anything
can be anywhere.
Fine Presses
By Scott Brown—Old Stile Press
is more than pretty pictures.
Beyond the Basics
By Joel Silver—The more the merrier
with extra-illustration.
Glen Miranker investigates—and collects—Sherlock Holmes.
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departments
Digest
Booksellers doing good; Shakespeare’s secrets; Quaritch sold;
a Bibliofind interview; and more.
Some Sharp Opinions from New-York Dealers from the
New York Times, January 26, 1890
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Auction Report
By Ian McKay—Highlights
of book auctions worldwide.