Smugglers Blue
How Rex Stout, Egmont Arens, and Rockwell Kent teamed up to publish Casanova’s steamy Memoirs
India’s “Incunabula”
Richard Kossow’s incomparable collection of early printed Indian books
Rare Book Week
Our guide to the book fairs, auctions & exhibitions in NYC, March 5-12
Auction Guide
A preview of this season’s auctions
Gently Mad
Transcendentalists in South Carolina
Joel Myerson’s collection of Emerson & friends
Digest
The legacy of NYC’s Gotham Book Mart
book: Tattoo bookbindings
art: Camp Tintype
object: Alice’s printing blocks
Record-Breaker
The Wealth of Nations
Adam Smith’s million-dollar treatise
In View
Set in Concrete
Ralston Crawford’s illuminating industrial environments
Beyond the Basics
Bibliotheca Osleriana
Landmarks in science and medicine
Fine Maps
South Pacific
The U.S. Exploring Expedition’s cartographic success
In the Library
Orchids and Algae: Lost and Found
Victorians versus nature in Toronto
On the Block
Remarkable Russians
From Puskin to Pasternak
Sold@Auction
Magical Manuscripts and Elusive Tales
A roundup of first editions, manuscripts, and fine art
How I Got Started
Charles Dickens
Collector Joseph R. Hageman
