Inside Summer 2012
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Feature
The New Alexandria
BY NICK MAMATAS
Can Brewster Kahle collect every book in the world?
Feature
The People’s Collector
BY JOHN MCINTYRE
How a public librarian in one of America's roughest cities built a world-class collection of prints
GENTLY MAD
Mighty Heavens
An astronomer casts his gaze on rare ephemerides
RECORD-BREAKER
The Mirror of Perfect Friendship
Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest
BOOK ART
First Impression
An interview with Alabama printer Amos P. Kennedy, Jr. 
BEYOND THE BASICS
It’s a Book—Not an App
A hands-on knowledge of physical books is at risk
SOLD@AUCTION
Book Learnin’
An annotated ABC and great mathematical sums
ON THE BLOCK
Red Books
Landscape architect Humphry Repton stole the show at Christie’s
FINE MAPS
Chasing Venus
Star maps of the mid-eighteenth century 
HOW I GOT STARTED
Books with Borzoi Logos
Collector Steven Wallace
DIGEST
Miniature book collectors and their big summer conclave
DIGEST
Lead Graffiti and William Morris
DIGEST
From paper to glass with Dale Chihuly
DIGEST
Shells and shell books
Book Art
First Impression
If you think letterpress printing has been relegated exclusively to the domain of typophiles and aesthetes, welcome to the world of Amos P. Kennedy,…
By Richard Minsky
In the Library
On Safire
William Safire was a man of many careers: Pulitzer Prize–winning columnist, presidential speechwriter, reporter, public relations executive, novelist…
By Amber L. Moore
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Feature
The New Alexandria
BY NICK MAMATAS
Can Brewster Kahle collect every book in the world?
Feature
The People’s Collector
BY JOHN MCINTYRE
How a public librarian in one of America's roughest cities built a world-class collection of prints
GENTLY MAD
Mighty Heavens
An astronomer casts his gaze on rare ephemerides
RECORD-BREAKER
The Mirror of Perfect Friendship
Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest
BOOK ART
First Impression
An interview with Alabama printer Amos P. Kennedy, Jr. 
BEYOND THE BASICS
It’s a Book—Not an App
A hands-on knowledge of physical books is at risk
SOLD@AUCTION
Book Learnin’
An annotated ABC and great mathematical sums
ON THE BLOCK
Red Books
Landscape architect Humphry Repton stole the show at Christie’s
FINE MAPS
Chasing Venus
Star maps of the mid-eighteenth century 
HOW I GOT STARTED
Books with Borzoi Logos
Collector Steven Wallace
DIGEST
Miniature book collectors and their big summer conclave
DIGEST
Lead Graffiti and William Morris
DIGEST
From paper to glass with Dale Chihuly
DIGEST
Shells and shell books