Inside Spring 2019
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Feature
Smugglers Blue
How Rex Stout, Egmont Arens, and Rockwell Kent teamed up to publish Casanova's steamy Memoirs
Feature
India's "Incunabula"
Richard Kossow's incomparable collection of early printed Indian books
Feature
Auction Guide
A preview of this season's auctions
Gently Mad
Transcendentalists in South Carolina
Joel Myerson's collection of Emerson & friends
Digest
Tattoo bookbindings
Camp Tintype
Alice's printing blocks
Record-Breaker
The Wealth of Nations
Adam Smith's million-dollar treatise
In View
Set in Concrete
Ralston Crawford's illuminating industrial environments
Beyond the Basics
Bibliotheca Osleriana
Landmarks in science and medicine
Fine Maps
South Pacific
The U.S. Exploring Expedition's cartographic success
In the Library
Orchids and Algae: Lost and Found
Victorians versus nature in Toronto
On the Block
Remarkable Russians
From Puskin to Pasternak
Sold@Auction
Magical Manuscripts and Elusive Tales
A roundup of first editions, manuscripts, and fine art
How I Got Started
Charles Dickens
Collector Joseph R. Hageman
The finest collection of rare and early printed books from colonial India is to be found not at the British Library or even within a rare book…
Artist Ralston Crawford dabbled in photography before World War II, using his 1938 shots of dock workers in Florida and Louisiana as source material…
At the time of his death a century ago, the Canadian physician Sir William Osler (1849–1919) was considered to be the most famous doctor in the world…
Frances Steloff’s famous Manhattan bookshop is the subject of an exhibition at Penn Libraries
Also In This Issue
Feature
Smugglers Blue
How Rex Stout, Egmont Arens, and Rockwell Kent teamed up to publish Casanova's steamy Memoirs
Feature
India's "Incunabula"
Richard Kossow's incomparable collection of early printed Indian books
Feature
Auction Guide
A preview of this season's auctions
Gently Mad
Transcendentalists in South Carolina
Joel Myerson's collection of Emerson & friends
Digest
Tattoo bookbindings
Camp Tintype
Alice's printing blocks
Record-Breaker
The Wealth of Nations
Adam Smith's million-dollar treatise
In View
Set in Concrete
Ralston Crawford's illuminating industrial environments
Beyond the Basics
Bibliotheca Osleriana
Landmarks in science and medicine
Fine Maps
South Pacific
The U.S. Exploring Expedition's cartographic success
In the Library
Orchids and Algae: Lost and Found
Victorians versus nature in Toronto
On the Block
Remarkable Russians
From Puskin to Pasternak
Sold@Auction
Magical Manuscripts and Elusive Tales
A roundup of first editions, manuscripts, and fine art
How I Got Started
Charles Dickens
Collector Joseph R. Hageman
