January/February 2003
features
A Day at the Fair
by Nicholas Basbanes — The
author of A Gentle Madness takes us inside the world's largest
antiquarian book fair.
An Argument for Lying Fallow
by Carolee Campbell — The
challenges of binding fine press books
Growing Up BOMC
by Sally Spooner — I
didn't want Book-of-the-Month Club editions piling up in my house. What
would people think?
Seller Beware
by Scott Brown—Credit
card fraud haunts customers, hammers merchants
Write an Essay, Win a Bookstore
by Sarah Rodriguez—For
$250 and 250 well-chosen words you, too, could have been a bookseller.
The Day Gary Soto Came to Town
by Amy Stewart—Maybe,
by not meeting Gary Soto, we saved my writing career.
Plus columns and reviews.