September/October 2006
Features

Champion Book Collectors
By Scott Brown—This is the future of book collecting: The winners of our first-ever collegiate book-collecting championship.
The Historical Atlas of the United States
By Derek Hayes—An exclusive first look at the making of a major new map book.
The Lost Evening
By Matthew Budman—Drinking
the night away with Hemingway's grandson.
Columns
Gently Mad
By Nicholas Basbanes—Once a book collector, always a book collector.
Fine MAPS
By Derek Hayes—Mapping the great San Francisco earthquake.
Fine Presses
By Richard Goodman—Enchanting engravings from Midnight Paper Sales.
Beyond the Basics
By Joel Silver—All around the edges (of books).
How I Got Started
Bob McCubbin's outlaws and lawmen.
DEPARTMENTS
PLUS
Dear Reader
Quotes & Comments
Catalogs Received
Calendar: Auctions & Fairs
Digest
Cemeteries, thrice-buried Baskerville, Hemingway Letters Project, previews of coming auctions, and more.
Book Reviews
Fine Pick: A
Masefield bibliography;
Letterpress for Beginners, and more.
On The Market
Collecting American radicals.
Auction Report
By Ian McKay—Cornelius Hauck's curious history of the book.