Dominic Winter Book Auctions
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Heritage Auction Galleries
The Largest Collectibles Auctioneer
Over 24,000 Online Bidder Members
PBA Galleries
Specialist in Exceptional Books &
Private Libraries Bought at Auction
John Windle Antiquarian Bookseller
Illuminated Manuscripts, William
Blake, Fine Printing, & More.
Ken Sanders Rare Books
Home of Dream Garden Press.
Modern Firsts, American West
Past Issues
March/April
2006Features
The $100,000 wonders, an illustrated list of
the 237 items that sold at auction in 2005 for more than a hundred grand,
are online at www.finebooks50.com
The
Fine Books 50 — Our annual report on the top book, map, and autograph
sales, including ten items that sold for more than $1 million. [Read online]
Unmasking a Literary Legend
— He
may not be as famous as James Frey, but the career of Theodore Bachaus is
rife with false leads, mistaken identify, and literary mystification.
Columns
Gently Mad
— Mitchell
Kaplan, the current president of the American Booksellers Association, is
the founding spirit of the Miami Book Fair.
Fine MAPS
— John
Franklin, arctic explorer
Fine Presses
— Janus
Press [Read online]
Beyond the Basics
— Collecting
limited editions
How I Got Started
George Ong collects the history of bibliography.
DEPARTMENTS
Digest
One hundred years of bookselling, upcoming auctions, collecting
artists’ letters, and more
Book Reviews
Fine Pick: Andrew Delbanco’s new biography of Herman
Melville; Mongo; a
sojourn at Shakespeare & Co., and more
On the Market
Collecting the evolution controversy
Auction Report
— Highlights
of book auctions worldwide