Inside Winter 2014
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Feature
Rudyard Kipling and the Bhoys at Yale
BY DAVID ALAN RICHARDS
How a scrap of a poem launched the world’s largest collection of Kipling.
Feature
Hollywood Bound
BY TOM HEYES
Scripts from the silver screen are highly collectible, particularly when you’re dealing with classic films like Gone With the Wind, Casablanca, and Citizen Kane.
GENTLY MAD
Welcome to Wonderland
One man’s quest for everything Alice
DIGEST
San Francisco’s Sutro Library
DIGEST
Precious gems in Carlsbad
RECORD-BREAKER
The Triumph of Odilon Redon 
The Symbolist painter and printmaker conquered at auction
BOOK ART
Biblioclast 
An interview with Doug Beube 
IN THE LIBRARY
Sangorski & Sutcliffe
Jeweled bindings and modern illuminated manuscripts at the Harry Ransom Center
FINE MAPS
‘Looking Up the Country’
Accurate maps of the battlefield made all the difference for the Union Army
SOLD@AUCTION
’Round the World
Confucius in Europe, Salzmann in Jerusalem, and Bernard Romans in colonial America
ON THE BLOCK
Hocus Pocus Focus
A marvelous collection of magic books and ephemera will disappear at auction
HOW I GOT STARTED
Raymond Chandler and Crime Fiction
Collector Al Kaff
Features
Rudyard Kipling and the Bhoys at Yale
In 1896, Rudyard Kipling was living in Brattleboro, Vermont, with his American-born wife.
By David Alan Richards
Features
Hollywood Bound
When one thinks of Hollywood, the phrase “the written word” doesn’t always immediately leap to mind. Of course, it could refer to a classic novel…
By Tom Heyes
In the Library
Sangorski & Sutcliffe
The remarkable story of Sangorski & Sutcliffe started in 1901, when two young, talented bookbinders were fired by their employer. At that time in…
By Stephen Ratcliffe
Digest
Las Vegas: Rare Books Hotspot
If you play your cards right, you might just find that first edition you’ve been seeking in Las Vegas, where, believe it or not, antiquarian…
By Sean Chaffin
Digest
A Novelist Inspired by Vintage Snapshots
Ransom Riggs’ first novel, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, spent sixty-three weeks on the New York Times Best Seller list … but he never…
By Nate Pedersen
Beyond the Basics
Collector and Bookseller: A Vanishing Relationship?
It's a cliché, but it’s true: Things aren’t the same as they used to be. Over the last twenty-five years, we’ve transformed the way that we buy books…
By Joel Silver
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Buy this Issue
Feature
Rudyard Kipling and the Bhoys at Yale
BY DAVID ALAN RICHARDS
How a scrap of a poem launched the world’s largest collection of Kipling.
Feature
Hollywood Bound
BY TOM HEYES
Scripts from the silver screen are highly collectible, particularly when you’re dealing with classic films like Gone With the Wind, Casablanca, and Citizen Kane.
GENTLY MAD
Welcome to Wonderland
One man’s quest for everything Alice
DIGEST
San Francisco’s Sutro Library
DIGEST
Precious gems in Carlsbad
RECORD-BREAKER
The Triumph of Odilon Redon 
The Symbolist painter and printmaker conquered at auction
BOOK ART
Biblioclast 
An interview with Doug Beube 
IN THE LIBRARY
Sangorski & Sutcliffe
Jeweled bindings and modern illuminated manuscripts at the Harry Ransom Center
FINE MAPS
‘Looking Up the Country’
Accurate maps of the battlefield made all the difference for the Union Army
SOLD@AUCTION
’Round the World
Confucius in Europe, Salzmann in Jerusalem, and Bernard Romans in colonial America
ON THE BLOCK
Hocus Pocus Focus
A marvelous collection of magic books and ephemera will disappear at auction
HOW I GOT STARTED
Raymond Chandler and Crime Fiction
Collector Al Kaff