Inside Autumn 2020
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The Finer Things
Tracking down the pieces of heiress and bibliophile Edith Rockefeller McCormick's 15,000-volume library
By Andrea Friederici Ross
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Beethoven at 250
Nine noteworthy collections around the world
By Jonathan Shipley
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Auction Guide
A preview of spring auctions
Gently Mad
In Fiction, Forgery Entices
A chat with novelist Bradford Morrow
Digest
A Hollywood filmmaker's beguiling and inspiring collection
Digest
Collegiate book collecting
Digest
Botanical art on exhibit
Digest
Election Ephemera
Record-Breaker
Paper Tigers
A map of South America with a playful twist
In View
Picasso's "Weeping Woman" Revealed
Dora Maar was more than a muse
Beyond the Basics
The Pleasures of Periodicals
Book collecting journals of the 1930s
Fine Maps
A Model City
Building Quebec City in miniature
Sold @ Auction
Essential Genuises & Imaginary Friends
A roundup of first editions, manuscripts, maps, and fine art
On the Block
Ten Generations of Americana
Books, art, and historical artifacts from a Signer's family
How I Got Started
Collecting Theodore Roethke
Collector Mike Kolleth
In View
Picasso’s Weeping Woman Revealed
Picture Pablo Picasso’s “Weeping Woman,” a Cubist oil on canvas painted in 1937 that depicts the shattered face of a crying woman. She was a figure…
By Rebecca Rego Barry
Features
The Finer Things
When you stand inside somebody’s library, you get a powerful sense of who they are, and not just who they are now, but who they’ve been,” writes Lev…
By Andrea Friederici Ross
Digest
Election Ephemera
In 2008, when Alicia Yin Cheng stumbled across an article in the New Yorker chronicling the strange, fraught history of American elections, she had…
By Peggy Carouthers
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The Wide World of Collegiate Book Collecting
There’s a pervasive notion that young people, screen in hand, do not enjoy books the way older generations do, and yet collegiate book collecting…
By Charlie Pogacar
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A Hollywood Filmmaker’s Beguiling and Inspiring Collection
It began with Begotten, filmmaker E. Elias Merhige’s 1989 black-and-white allegory about death and transformation. Championing the film were people…
By Jordan Riefe
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BUY THIS ISSUE AT THE FINE BOOKS STORE
Feature
The Finer Things
Tracking down the pieces of heiress and bibliophile Edith Rockefeller McCormick's 15,000-volume library
By Andrea Friederici Ross
Feature
Beethoven at 250
Nine noteworthy collections around the world
By Jonathan Shipley
Feature
Auction Guide
A preview of spring auctions
Gently Mad
In Fiction, Forgery Entices
A chat with novelist Bradford Morrow
Digest
A Hollywood filmmaker's beguiling and inspiring collection
Digest
Collegiate book collecting
Digest
Botanical art on exhibit
Digest
Election Ephemera
Record-Breaker
Paper Tigers
A map of South America with a playful twist
In View
Picasso's "Weeping Woman" Revealed
Dora Maar was more than a muse
Beyond the Basics
The Pleasures of Periodicals
Book collecting journals of the 1930s
Fine Maps
A Model City
Building Quebec City in miniature
Sold @ Auction
Essential Genuises & Imaginary Friends
A roundup of first editions, manuscripts, maps, and fine art
On the Block
Ten Generations of Americana
Books, art, and historical artifacts from a Signer's family
How I Got Started
Collecting Theodore Roethke
Collector Mike Kolleth