Inside Winter 2017
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Feature
Not Going to Fly
A private archive reveals how Orville Wright grounded an unauthorized biography
BY SUZANNE MUCHNIC
Feature
Mission: Vietnam
One man's quest to collect the war that still haunts America
BY REBECCA REGO BARRY
special supplement
2017 Collector's Resource Guide
GENTLY MAD
Opera Omnia
Poet, editor, and librettist J. D. McClatchy
DIGEST
The New William Blake Gallery
DIGEST
Comparing Leaves of Grass
DIGEST
California's poets and book artists
DIGEST
Vintage VHS
RECORD-BREAKER
The Thrill of the Hunt
Hunting and hawking with the Counts du Verne
IN VIEW
Through the Eyes of Robert Frank
The overlooked work of the photobook pioneer
BEYOND THE BASICS
Before Printing and the Mind of Man
The significant exhibition that preceded 'PMM'
FINE MAPS
Cyrus W. Field Shrinks the World
Connecting the submarine telegraph cable
IN THE LIBRARY
To Market, To Market
Undergrads bid on rare books
SOLD@AUCTION
Cleland Canoodles, Reagan Doodles
A roundup of first editions, manuscripts, maps, and fine art
ON THE BLOCK
Up, Up, and Away
Mountaineering books & California history
HOW I GOT STARTED
Victorian Novelists
Collector N. John Hall
Digest
Camera-Ready Victorians
When Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass appeared in 1855, it changed the course of American literature. Energetic, subversive, and bursting with life, it…
By Erin Blakemore
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Feature
Not Going to Fly
A private archive reveals how Orville Wright grounded an unauthorized biography
BY SUZANNE MUCHNIC
Feature
Mission: Vietnam
One man's quest to collect the war that still haunts America
BY REBECCA REGO BARRY
special supplement
2017 Collector's Resource Guide
GENTLY MAD
Opera Omnia
Poet, editor, and librettist J. D. McClatchy
DIGEST
The New William Blake Gallery
DIGEST
Comparing Leaves of Grass
DIGEST
California's poets and book artists
DIGEST
Vintage VHS
RECORD-BREAKER
The Thrill of the Hunt
Hunting and hawking with the Counts du Verne
IN VIEW
Through the Eyes of Robert Frank
The overlooked work of the photobook pioneer
BEYOND THE BASICS
Before Printing and the Mind of Man
The significant exhibition that preceded 'PMM'
FINE MAPS
Cyrus W. Field Shrinks the World
Connecting the submarine telegraph cable
IN THE LIBRARY
To Market, To Market
Undergrads bid on rare books
SOLD@AUCTION
Cleland Canoodles, Reagan Doodles
A roundup of first editions, manuscripts, maps, and fine art
ON THE BLOCK
Up, Up, and Away
Mountaineering books & California history
HOW I GOT STARTED
Victorian Novelists
Collector N. John Hall