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About the Author

About the Author

Nicholas Basbanes’ latest book has arrived.

American Book Covers

Curiosities of Literature

A Feast for Book Lovers

In the News

National Book Auctions August Sale

ITHACA, NY National Book Auctions, located in Ithaca, NY, held an August 29th auction... read more

Art Book Collection to UNL Library

Lincoln, Neb., August 10th, 2010 —University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries announced that it has received... read more

August 12 Auction To Include Mercator, Johnson And Lewis And Clark

(Chicago, Illinois) August 9, 2010 - Leslie Hindman Auctioneers’ August 12 Fine Books and... read more

Digitization in the Real World

New Book Highlights Recent Digitization Projects Involving Historically Significant Collections at Leading Libraries and... read more

Multiplied Contemporary Editions Fair

New Fair to be Hosted by Christie's in Frieze WeekChristie’s is delighted to announce... read more

Innerpeffray Library Publishes Book

Scotland's First Lending Library Publishes First Book The First Light is a new book... read more

New Punch Magazine Book

One of the enduring images of journalists ‘hard at work’ over a substantial meal... read more

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2010 Bookseller Resource Guide
October 2009
Contents46

SPECIAL REPORT

The Big Sell

The rise and fall
of door-to-door
book agents who
roamed the
continent in the
early decades of
the 20th century.
By Jeffrey S. Murray

 

Departments

DIGEST

Edgar Allan is ALIVE!

Upcoming events to honor famed poet Edgar Allan Poe’s 200th birthday and the 160th anniversary of his death. Kimberyly Draper

Jane Austen Relived

The Morgan Library displays over 100 of Austen’s works, some of which are on view for the first time in 25 years.

Calendar

Find book fairs and auctions in your area or around the world.

Featured Columns

Gently Mad

Remarkable Repositories: Assembling the Getty

Marcia Reed, chief curator and head of collection development at the Getty Research Institute, has helped build an astounding collection of rarities over the past 25 years. By Nicholas Basbanes

On the Block

Up, Up, and Away

Journal of the first manned balloon ascent in America; one of a kind colored plate from Airopaidia; and Charles Dickens’ toothpick. By Ian McKay

Round These Isles

Book Notes From The UK

Current events from the world of books in the UK, including the fight to protect a seaside shelter built in 1910 in Margate where T.S. Elliot did some of his writing. By Stephen Maughan