Fine Books Classifieds
Freeman's
America's Oldest Auction House Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Prints
www.freemansauction.com
Bohams & Butterfields
Auctioneers & Appraisers Fine Books & Manuscripts
www.bonhams.com
Quill & Brush
Serving the Book Community 45+Yrs. Over 20,000 Collectable Books
www.qbbooks.com
We Buy, Sell, & Auction
Autographs, Schripophily, & Fine Books
R. M. Smythe
Fine Editions Available
Mary Shelly's Frankenstein & Algernon Blackwood
Centipede Press
Leslie Hindman Auctioneers
We are currently accepting consignments for upcoming sales.
www.lesliehindman.com
Swann Galleries
At Auction August 1st Vintage Posters
www.swanngalleries.com
Dominic Winter Book Auctions
Specialist Book Auctioneers & Value Catalogues & Auction dates online
www.domincwinter.co.uk
March/April 2005
Features
The Fine Books 50
Compiled by Scott Brown with reporting by Greg Sanders, Steve Hare and Geneviève Duboscq — A detailed look at the top 50 book auction sales of 2004 [READ ONLINE]
  • Fine Books 50 List
  • Top Lot: The Macclesfield Psalter [READ ONLINE]
  • John Gould: Bird Man
  • Aububon Flap
  • Surrealists
Online Exclusive
$100,000 Wonders
Find the entire list of 296 items that sold for over $100,000. [READ ONLINE]
The Case of the Mysterious Folio
By Anthony James West — A Shakespearean scholar investigates a centuries-old enigma.
Remembering AB
By Joel Silver — A look back at Jake Chernofsky and the magazine that defined bookselling for two generations.
Columns
Gently Mad
By Nicholas Basbanes — The Known Book World.
Fine Presses
By Scott Brown — Richard Minsky’s Bill of Rights. [READ ONLINE]
Beyond the Basics
By Joel Silver — Solving the collational formula.
How I Got Started
Caroline Schimmel’s wilderness women.
departments
Digest
Armed Services Editions return; the tsunami; delaminating Jefferson; and more.
Book Reviews
Fine Pick: Sci-fi covers in Worlds of Tomorrow; plus Essays on Books and Bibliophiles.
Catalog Review
Offerings from booksellers.
Auction Report
By Ian McKay — Highlights of book auctions worldwide.