Feature
Women of Vision
National Geographic celebrates the fearless female photojournalists who risk it all to make compelling pictures
Feature
The FB&C Holiday Gift Guide
A list of the season’s best bookish wares
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Intelligence Gathering
BY BARBARA BASBANES RICHTER
Inside three private collections of spycraft, code-breaking, and cryptology
Feature
The Persistence of Poe
BY A.N. DEVERS
Book collector Susan Jaffe Tane on her unrivaled collection of Edgar Allan Poe and her new exhibit at New York’s Grolier Club
GENTLY MAD
Boston’s New Literary District
The city embarks on a major campaign to honor its writers
DIGEST
Seattle’s bid to become a “City of Literature”
DIGEST
Traces of previous readers
DIGEST
Spencer Finch
DIGEST
Amateur newspapers
RECORD-BREAKER
The First English Book
An incunable from Caxton’s press made $1.8 million
BEYOND THE BASICS
“Not In…”
Why catalogue descriptions with “not found in” citations can be tricky
BOOK ART
The Center for Book Arts at 40
An interview with its founder Richard Minsky
IN THE LIBRARY
Fakes, Lies, and Forgeries
The Bibliotheca Fictiva collection on exhibit in Baltimore
FINE MAPS
Mapping Time
Tough decisions at Washington’s International Meridian Conference
SOLD@AUCTION
Summer Blockbusters
From Anglo-Saxon manuscript fragments to Wolverine’s comic debut
ON THE BLOCK
The $8.8-Million Family Library
A “time capsule” of a book collection dazzled buyers
HOW I GOT STARTED
Fine Bindings
Collector Anthony Davis
Feature
Women of Vision
National Geographic celebrates the fearless female photojournalists who risk it all to make compelling pictures
Feature
The FB&C Holiday Gift Guide
A list of the season’s best bookish wares
Feature
Intelligence Gathering
BY BARBARA BASBANES RICHTER
Inside three private collections of spycraft, code-breaking, and cryptology
Feature
The Persistence of Poe
BY A.N. DEVERS
Book collector Susan Jaffe Tane on her unrivaled collection of Edgar Allan Poe and her new exhibit at New York’s Grolier Club
GENTLY MAD
Boston’s New Literary District
The city embarks on a major campaign to honor its writers
DIGEST
Seattle’s bid to become a “City of Literature”
DIGEST
Traces of previous readers
DIGEST
Spencer Finch
DIGEST
Amateur newspapers
RECORD-BREAKER
The First English Book
An incunable from Caxton’s press made $1.8 million
BEYOND THE BASICS
“Not In…”
Why catalogue descriptions with “not found in” citations can be tricky
BOOK ART
The Center for Book Arts at 40
An interview with its founder Richard Minsky
IN THE LIBRARY
Fakes, Lies, and Forgeries
The Bibliotheca Fictiva collection on exhibit in Baltimore
FINE MAPS
Mapping Time
Tough decisions at Washington’s International Meridian Conference
SOLD@AUCTION
Summer Blockbusters
From Anglo-Saxon manuscript fragments to Wolverine’s comic debut
ON THE BLOCK
The $8.8-Million Family Library
A “time capsule” of a book collection dazzled buyers
HOW I GOT STARTED
Fine Bindings
Collector Anthony Davis
