Inside Summer 2011
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Beach Read
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?
Feature
Edward Curtis’ The North American Indian
Theodore Roosevelt, J. P. Morgan, and Cecil B. DeMille all supported—in one way or another—this million-dollar set of photographs.
Feature
On the Plantation
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.
GENTLY MAD
The Power of a Piece of Paper
Bookseller Ken Rendell’s private Museum of World War II
RECORD-BREAKER
Merian’s Entomological Wonder
A third edition of the Metamorphosibus Insectorum Surinamensium
BOOK ART
New York Revisited
An interview with color wood engraver Gaylord Schanilec
BEYOND THE BASICS
Books in Parts
Serial collecting, Dickens and beyond
IN THE LIBRARY
Patience and Fortitude
Reuniting the Strachey Papers at the Clements Library
ON THE BLOCK
Bibliotheca Wittockiana
Belgian bibliophile Michel Wittock's fine bindings at auction (again)
HOW I GOT STARTED
Virginia History and China Travels
Collector Jack Spain
DIGEST
The handwriting is on the wall for American penmanship
DIGEST
Loeb Classical Library turns one hundred
DIGEST
Painting Shakespeare
DIGEST
Collecting play money
DIGEST
The King James Bible at the Bodleian
On Saturday, September 18, 1926, Henry Beston, a thirty-eight-year-old writer and editor, boarded a train in Boston, heading to Cape Cod for a two-…
Once, along the shores of Seattle, Washington, a young man met an old princess. She, out from her waterfront cabin, was on the tideflats collecting…
Sometimes good things really do come to those who wait—and to those who never give up the fight. That happened on October 15, 2010, when the William…
It was 1895, and it was then that Edward Sheriff Curtis took his first portraits of a Native American. The princess was Kikisoblu, the eldest…
Also In This Issue
Feature
Beach Read
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?
Feature
Edward Curtis’ The North American Indian
Theodore Roosevelt, J. P. Morgan, and Cecil B. DeMille all supported—in one way or another—this million-dollar set of photographs.
Feature
On the Plantation
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.
GENTLY MAD
The Power of a Piece of Paper
Bookseller Ken Rendell’s private Museum of World War II
RECORD-BREAKER
Merian’s Entomological Wonder
A third edition of the Metamorphosibus Insectorum Surinamensium
BOOK ART
New York Revisited
An interview with color wood engraver Gaylord Schanilec
BEYOND THE BASICS
Books in Parts
Serial collecting, Dickens and beyond
IN THE LIBRARY
Patience and Fortitude
Reuniting the Strachey Papers at the Clements Library
ON THE BLOCK
Bibliotheca Wittockiana
Belgian bibliophile Michel Wittock's fine bindings at auction (again)
HOW I GOT STARTED
Virginia History and China Travels
Collector Jack Spain
DIGEST
The handwriting is on the wall for American penmanship
DIGEST
Loeb Classical Library turns one hundred
DIGEST
Painting Shakespeare
DIGEST
Collecting play money
DIGEST
The King James Bible at the Bodleian
