Inside Winter 2012
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Feature
Strange Beauty
The captivating drawings, paintings, and prints of bestselling novelist Audrey Niffenegger
Feature
Big Sur
A land of indulgence and escape for generations of writers, from Robert Louis Stevenson to Henry Miller
Feature
Illustrating the Classics
Rand McNally tapped Milo Winter to illustrate its Windermere series
GENTLY MAD
Prime Pickwicks and Beyond
A private collection of Charles Dickens goes on exhibit at Southern Methodist University
DIGEST
The end of an era at Serendipity Books
DIGEST
LA’s Siglio Press
DIGEST
Bibliophilately
DIGEST
Gothic Grandeur at the Getty
RECORD-BREAKER
Persia’s Physician
The first Arabic edition of Canon medicinae
BOOK ART
Book Architect
An interview with Hedi Kyle, inventor of the “flag book”
BEYOND THE BASICS
In the Margins
The effect of notes, marginalia, and ownership marks on a book’s value
FINE MAPS
Photomapping
Mapmakers were among the first to embrace the new science of photography
FINE BOOKS REVIEW
Shelf Reading
Unpacking My Library: Writers and Their Books
SOLD@AUCTION
Danish Artists, Italian Naturalists, and Turkish Sultans
Fine art, maps, manuscripts, and illustrated books recently sold
ON THE BLOCK
The Big Sale
A major Raymond Chandler collection, fresh to market
HOW I GOT STARTED
Skiing books and ephemera
Collector Ingrid Wicken
Serendipity Books in Berkeley, California, housed hundreds of thousands of books in its heyday. It was the personal fiefdom of Peter Howard, a…
When Eastman Kodak announced on June 22, 2009, that it was permanently retiring Kodachrome film, it marked the death of traditional photography. In…
Also In This Issue
Feature
Strange Beauty
The captivating drawings, paintings, and prints of bestselling novelist Audrey Niffenegger
Feature
Big Sur
A land of indulgence and escape for generations of writers, from Robert Louis Stevenson to Henry Miller
Feature
Illustrating the Classics
Rand McNally tapped Milo Winter to illustrate its Windermere series
GENTLY MAD
Prime Pickwicks and Beyond
A private collection of Charles Dickens goes on exhibit at Southern Methodist University
DIGEST
The end of an era at Serendipity Books
DIGEST
LA’s Siglio Press
DIGEST
Bibliophilately
DIGEST
Gothic Grandeur at the Getty
RECORD-BREAKER
Persia’s Physician
The first Arabic edition of Canon medicinae
BOOK ART
Book Architect
An interview with Hedi Kyle, inventor of the “flag book”
BEYOND THE BASICS
In the Margins
The effect of notes, marginalia, and ownership marks on a book’s value
FINE MAPS
Photomapping
Mapmakers were among the first to embrace the new science of photography
FINE BOOKS REVIEW
Shelf Reading
Unpacking My Library: Writers and Their Books
SOLD@AUCTION
Danish Artists, Italian Naturalists, and Turkish Sultans
Fine art, maps, manuscripts, and illustrated books recently sold
ON THE BLOCK
The Big Sale
A major Raymond Chandler collection, fresh to market
HOW I GOT STARTED
Skiing books and ephemera
Collector Ingrid Wicken
