Henry Beston spent a year in a dune shack on Cape Cod, finding there the inspiration to write The Outermost House, a classic of American nature writing. Where would he go next?

Theodore Roosevelt, J. P. Morgan, and Cecil B. DeMille all supported—in one way or another—this million-dollar set of photographs. 

Cammie G. Henry, an early twentieth-century collector of books and ephemera, turned her Louisiana plantation into an arts colony that would one day produce folk artist Clementine Hunter.

Bookseller Ken Rendell’s private Museum of World War II

A third edition of the Metamorphosibus Insectorum Surinamensium

An interview with color wood engraver Gaylord Schanilec

Serial collecting, Dickens and beyond

Reuniting the Strachey Papers at the Clements Library

Belgian bibliophile Michel Wittock's fine bindings at auction (again)

Collector Jack Spain