Fine Books Classifieds
PRB&M
An independent, extensive, highly illustrated website.
www.prbm.com
Antiquarian Maps & Map Collecting
Map dealers, antique charts, views, elevations, prints, cartography.
Int'l Antiqurian Mapsellers Assc.
Sumner & Stillman
Literary First Editions 19th and Early 20th Centuries
www.sumnerandstillman.com
WorldView Antique Maps & Books
A Fine Selection of Antiquarian Maps, Charts and Books.
www.worldviewmaps.com
William Reese Company
American, Voyages & Travel, Manuscripts and Plate Books
www.reeseco.com
Bloomsbury Auctions
The World's Leading Auction House For Rare Books
www.bloomsburyauctions.com
Ken Sanders Rare Books
Home of Dream Garden Press. Modern Firsts, American West
www.kensandersbooks.com
Bohams & Butterfields
Auctioneers & Appraisers Fine Books & Manuscripts
www.bonhams.com
September/October 2008
Features
Champion Book Collectors
By Scott Brown—With photographs by Frank Tapia and studioDUDA. Profiles of the three winners of our Collegiate
Book-Collecting Championship.
I Want Your Documents
By Ellen Firsching Brown—When Uncle Sam eyes your collection.
Dead People’s Libraries
By Jonathan Shipley—A website recreates the libraries of patriots and writers.
Lost Classics
By Anne Trubek—Four nominees for a new literary canon.
Columns
Gently Mad
By Nicholas Basbanes—Charles Hobson, book artist.
Fine MAPS
By Derek Hayes—Local maps
Fine Presses
By Richard Goodman—The Printery
Beyond the Basics
By Joel Silver—Book censuses.
How I Got Started
James Goode, bookplate collector.
DEPARTMENTS
PLUS
Dear Reader
Quotes & Comments
[Read Online]
Catalogs Received
Calendar: Auctions & Fairs
ad index
Digest
Floods in Iowa, thefts in New York, and more.
Book Reviews
English in Print: From Caxton to Shakespeare to Milton by Valerie Hotchkiss and Fred C. Robinson
On The Market
Collecting cocktail books.
Auction Report
By Ian McKay—Dickens’s desk, great Gregynogs,
and dear doggerel.