Inside Spring 2012
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Feature
Larry McMurtry
BY BRANDON KENNEDY
A day in Archer City with the bookseller and bestselling novelist 
Feature
Victoria’s Secrets
BY DEBORAH BURST
Revealing the private side of England’s longest reigning queen
GENTLY MAD
A Most Fascinating and Dangerous Pursuit
The treasures in the library at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum 
DIGEST
The Grolier’s Dr. Flamm and the NY Antiquarian Book Fair
DIGEST
What Widener lost on the Titanic
DIGEST
Mort Janklow’s passion for Picasso
DIGEST
Printers’ medals
RECORD-BREAKER
Selling Seashells
Thomas Martyn’s The Universal Conchologist
BOOK ART
Typecast
An interview with Russell Maret, chairman of the Fine Press Book Association
BEYOND THE BASICS
High Spots
Why hunting books of personal interest is as rewarding as catching the big fish 
IN THE LIBRARY
The Steins Collect
The Metropolitan Museum of Art investigates the art mania of Gertrude Stein and her family
FINE MAPS
Projecting the Empire
How England’s cartographic ad campaign attempted to boost trade
SOLD@AUCTION
Infinite Variety
Brontë’s miniature manuscript, Audubon's folio, and a Disney cel
ON THE BLOCK
Fighting Words
Allyn Kellogg Ford's Revolutionary War collection up for sale
HOW I GOT STARTED
Children’s Books
Collector Kim Rhode
Fine Maps
Projecting the Empire
Four years ago the Empire Marketing Board wasn’t in existence, now, you can go nowhere without being reminded of its influence,” wrote an…
By Jeffrey S. Murray
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Feature
Larry McMurtry
BY BRANDON KENNEDY
A day in Archer City with the bookseller and bestselling novelist 
Feature
Victoria’s Secrets
BY DEBORAH BURST
Revealing the private side of England’s longest reigning queen
GENTLY MAD
A Most Fascinating and Dangerous Pursuit
The treasures in the library at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum 
DIGEST
The Grolier’s Dr. Flamm and the NY Antiquarian Book Fair
DIGEST
What Widener lost on the Titanic
DIGEST
Mort Janklow’s passion for Picasso
DIGEST
Printers’ medals
RECORD-BREAKER
Selling Seashells
Thomas Martyn’s The Universal Conchologist
BOOK ART
Typecast
An interview with Russell Maret, chairman of the Fine Press Book Association
BEYOND THE BASICS
High Spots
Why hunting books of personal interest is as rewarding as catching the big fish 
IN THE LIBRARY
The Steins Collect
The Metropolitan Museum of Art investigates the art mania of Gertrude Stein and her family
FINE MAPS
Projecting the Empire
How England’s cartographic ad campaign attempted to boost trade
SOLD@AUCTION
Infinite Variety
Brontë’s miniature manuscript, Audubon's folio, and a Disney cel
ON THE BLOCK
Fighting Words
Allyn Kellogg Ford's Revolutionary War collection up for sale
HOW I GOT STARTED
Children’s Books
Collector Kim Rhode