Karen Edwards
Karen Edwards has been a freelance writer for Antique Week, Early American Life, Woman’s Day, Health, Eating Well, and Entrepreneur.
Every December Steve Gargani, a pressroom manager for printing giant R. R. Donnelley, would look forward to the day a supervisor would visit employees with paychecks and the company holiday gift.
There are sets of books in America that any book lover might like to own. They are custom-designed, hand-bound in leather, and stamped in gold. They’re also historically significant.
You’re in a museum and you’re there to look at art, right? Maybe not. Maybe you’re there to discuss the book you’ve just finished reading.
Bookends may be utilitarian to bibliophiles intent on avoiding cocked spines, but for one collector, bookends were themselves objects to pursue.
