Inside Winter 2014
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Feature
Rudyard Kipling and the Bhoys at Yale
How a scrap of a poem launched the world’s largest collection of Kipling.
Feature
Hollywood Bound
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
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…
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…
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…
Also In This Issue
Feature
Rudyard Kipling and the Bhoys at Yale
How a scrap of a poem launched the world’s largest collection of Kipling.
Feature
Hollywood Bound
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
