Inside Autumn 2013
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Great Gifts for Bibliophiles
Our annual guide to bookish gifts to give … and receive.
Feature
We are Storytellers First
Billionaire collector and businessman Steve Green has set his sights on a national museum devoted to the Bible.
Feature
On the Paper Trail
In a history of paper that encompasses two millennia, you’re as likely to bump into a covert CIA operative as a traditional Japanese papermaker.
GENTLY MAD
Back to Boston
The author revisits his old haunts
DIGEST
Literary Tourism From Jane Austen’s Bath to Colombia's Magical Realism Tour
DIGEST
Indiana’s Remnant Trust
DIGEST
Collecting the Comics
DIGEST
J. P. Morgan’s Life in Objects
RECORD-BREAKER
When Harry Met Matilda
Fundraising with author-annotated and extra-illustrated first editions
BOOK ART
Druckworks
An interview with Johanna Drucker
BEYOND THE BASICS
Printing and the Mind of Man
This landmark exhibition fifty years ago included two smaller exhibitions of note
SOLD@AUCTION
Science and Science Fiction
From Alan Turing’s On Computable Numbers to H. G. Wells’ The First Men in the Moon
ON THE BLOCK
The Great and the Gruesome
Exploration narratives at Bonhams’ Northwest America & Arctic sale
HOW I GOT STARTED
The 1972 Olympic Games
Collector Matthew Gin
Step into the newly opened Fred W. Smith National Library for the Study of George Washington and you recognize immediately that something special is…
Standing on a small hill overlooking Dunkard Creek, Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon aligned their latest survey post “and heaped around it Earth and…
Also In This Issue
Feature
Great Gifts for Bibliophiles
Our annual guide to bookish gifts to give … and receive.
Feature
We are Storytellers First
Billionaire collector and businessman Steve Green has set his sights on a national museum devoted to the Bible.
Feature
On the Paper Trail
In a history of paper that encompasses two millennia, you’re as likely to bump into a covert CIA operative as a traditional Japanese papermaker.
GENTLY MAD
Back to Boston
The author revisits his old haunts
DIGEST
Literary Tourism From Jane Austen’s Bath to Colombia's Magical Realism Tour
DIGEST
Indiana’s Remnant Trust
DIGEST
Collecting the Comics
DIGEST
J. P. Morgan’s Life in Objects
RECORD-BREAKER
When Harry Met Matilda
Fundraising with author-annotated and extra-illustrated first editions
BOOK ART
Druckworks
An interview with Johanna Drucker
BEYOND THE BASICS
Printing and the Mind of Man
This landmark exhibition fifty years ago included two smaller exhibitions of note
SOLD@AUCTION
Science and Science Fiction
From Alan Turing’s On Computable Numbers to H. G. Wells’ The First Men in the Moon
ON THE BLOCK
The Great and the Gruesome
Exploration narratives at Bonhams’ Northwest America & Arctic sale
HOW I GOT STARTED
The 1972 Olympic Games
Collector Matthew Gin
