Inside Summer 2018
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Literature for the Masses
How Emanuel Haldeman-Julius, the self-styled ‘Voltaire of Kansas,’ launched the Little Blue Books
BY STEVEN COX
Special Supplement
Biblio 360
Our annual guide to book clubs, classes, fairs, & more
GENTLY MAD
Pleasure’s Temple
Sleeping with one’s books
Digest
Restoring John Steinbeck’s Boat
Digest 
Little Women at 150
Digest 
Old Books, Cut & Colored
OBJECT 
Darwin’s Fossils
RECORD-BREAKER
The Bell Jar
Plath’s own copy bewitched bidders
BEYOND THE BASICS
A Life in Books
In memoriam Ian Jackson
FINE MAPS
Engraved in Wax
The rise of cerography
SOLD@AUCTION
Poetic Elizabethans, Witty Victorians
A roundup of first editions, manuscripts, and fine art
ON THE BLOCK
Worlds Colliding
Maps ruled a UK sale
HOW I GOT STARTED
Microscopy, Chemistry & Fine Bindings
Collector John Delly
In the Library
Saved by the Cover
While cataloguing and mounting six exhibitions of American publishers’ bindings, I noticed a few exceptional cover designs by important designers on…
By Richard Minsky
In the Library
Besides Austen
This past summer, the first woman writer appeared on an English banknote. Jane Austen joined Charles Dickens and William Shakespeare, the only other…
By Kim Simpson
Features
Tom Wolfe
It’s not every bestselling author who lives to see collectors’ editions of his books, but Tom Wolfe is rare by many standards. This year marks the…
By Martha Steger
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Buy this Issue
Feature
Literature for the Masses
How Emanuel Haldeman-Julius, the self-styled ‘Voltaire of Kansas,’ launched the Little Blue Books
BY STEVEN COX
Special Supplement
Biblio 360
Our annual guide to book clubs, classes, fairs, & more
GENTLY MAD
Pleasure’s Temple
Sleeping with one’s books
Digest
Restoring John Steinbeck’s Boat
Digest 
Little Women at 150
Digest 
Old Books, Cut & Colored
OBJECT 
Darwin’s Fossils
RECORD-BREAKER
The Bell Jar
Plath’s own copy bewitched bidders
BEYOND THE BASICS
A Life in Books
In memoriam Ian Jackson
FINE MAPS
Engraved in Wax
The rise of cerography
SOLD@AUCTION
Poetic Elizabethans, Witty Victorians
A roundup of first editions, manuscripts, and fine art
ON THE BLOCK
Worlds Colliding
Maps ruled a UK sale
HOW I GOT STARTED
Microscopy, Chemistry & Fine Bindings
Collector John Delly