Inside Spring 2011
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Books and Bailouts 
BY ANNE TRUBEK
Five days in Dublin, Ireland gives us a taste of a city steeped in its literary heritage.
Feature
Cocktail Kingdom
BY DEBORAH BURST
Publisher Greg Boehm’s intoxicating collection of vintage cocktail books and barware keeps the gin fizz alive in downtown Manhattan.
GENTLY MAD
Save the Books
A flood endangers the Boston Athenæum
RECORD-BREAKER
Checkmate
Twenty grand for a piece of chess history
BOOK ART
CBAA, Codex, and Beyond
Recent book art fairs and symposia
BEYOND THE BASICS
It’s All Greek
Collecting books you can't read
IN THE LIBRARY
Misplaced Medieval Scissors
The Art Institute of Chicago’s Altered and Adorned
ON THE BLOCK
Provenance
The estate of Ben Sonnenberg and association copies
HOW I GOT STARTED
Jane Austen
Jane Austen collector Mary Gaither Marshall
DIGEST
How rare is a proof of Plath’s pseudonymously written first novel?
DIGEST
Major collection of city travel guides
DIGEST
The market for photobooks
DIGEST
Preserving the St. Louis Library
DIGEST
Rembrandt at NYC’s Frick Collection
Features
Scholars in the Stacks
Located on the second floor of the New York Public Library’s Schwarzman Building on Fifth Avenue, behind heavy polished wood doors, is heaven for the…
By Richard Goodman
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Buy this Issue
Feature
Books and Bailouts 
BY ANNE TRUBEK
Five days in Dublin, Ireland gives us a taste of a city steeped in its literary heritage.
Feature
Cocktail Kingdom
BY DEBORAH BURST
Publisher Greg Boehm’s intoxicating collection of vintage cocktail books and barware keeps the gin fizz alive in downtown Manhattan.
GENTLY MAD
Save the Books
A flood endangers the Boston Athenæum
RECORD-BREAKER
Checkmate
Twenty grand for a piece of chess history
BOOK ART
CBAA, Codex, and Beyond
Recent book art fairs and symposia
BEYOND THE BASICS
It’s All Greek
Collecting books you can't read
IN THE LIBRARY
Misplaced Medieval Scissors
The Art Institute of Chicago’s Altered and Adorned
ON THE BLOCK
Provenance
The estate of Ben Sonnenberg and association copies
HOW I GOT STARTED
Jane Austen
Jane Austen collector Mary Gaither Marshall
DIGEST
How rare is a proof of Plath’s pseudonymously written first novel?
DIGEST
Major collection of city travel guides
DIGEST
The market for photobooks
DIGEST
Preserving the St. Louis Library
DIGEST
Rembrandt at NYC’s Frick Collection