Inside Summer 2015
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Feature
Documenting America
Farm Security Administration photographer Marion Post Wolcott’s dusty roadways, juke joints, and tenant houses.
Feature
Look Beyond Books
Literary-themed ephemera and realia can be substantial additions—or extravagant centerpieces—to book collections.
Gently Mad
A Bibliomaniac in Paradise
Library conservation efforts pay off in Hawaii
Digest
Adventures in Bookbinding
Digest
Icelandic Imagery
Digest
The Brontës’ Table
Record-Breaker
Miniature Martyrs
A tiny tome makes a big splash
Book Art
Serving the Muse
An interview with Carolee Campbell
In the Library
Japanese Books Under the Occupation
The University of Maryland’s Prange Collection
Fine Maps
Maps from the “Stone Age”
How lithography revolutionized map publishing
Sold@Auction
From Choirbooks to Comics
A roundup of first editions, manuscripts, maps, and fine art
On the Block
Thinning the Herd
Larry McMurtry Sells his Wells
How I Got Started
Sherlock Holmes & Vincent Starrett
Collector Ray Betzner
Books, at least the books that collectors usually want, cost money, and sometimes they cost a great deal of money. This becomes apparent to…
"A lot of modern art was created to be hated,” said Nicholas Lowry, president and principal auctioneer for Swann Galleries. “Travel posters were made…
Also In This Issue
Feature
Documenting America
Farm Security Administration photographer Marion Post Wolcott’s dusty roadways, juke joints, and tenant houses.
Feature
Look Beyond Books
Literary-themed ephemera and realia can be substantial additions—or extravagant centerpieces—to book collections.
Gently Mad
A Bibliomaniac in Paradise
Library conservation efforts pay off in Hawaii
Digest
Adventures in Bookbinding
Digest
Icelandic Imagery
Digest
The Brontës’ Table
Record-Breaker
Miniature Martyrs
A tiny tome makes a big splash
Book Art
Serving the Muse
An interview with Carolee Campbell
In the Library
Japanese Books Under the Occupation
The University of Maryland’s Prange Collection
Fine Maps
Maps from the “Stone Age”
How lithography revolutionized map publishing
Sold@Auction
From Choirbooks to Comics
A roundup of first editions, manuscripts, maps, and fine art
On the Block
Thinning the Herd
Larry McMurtry Sells his Wells
How I Got Started
Sherlock Holmes & Vincent Starrett
Collector Ray Betzner
