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Contents
Champion Book Collectors
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With photographs by Frank Tapia and studioDUDA.
Profiles of the three winners of our Collegiate
Book-Collecting Championship.
I Want Your Documents
When Uncle Sam eyes your collection.
Dead People’s Libraries
A website recreates the libraries of patriots and writers.
Lost Classics
Four nominees for a new literary canon.
DEPARTMENTS
Digest
Floods in Iowa, thefts in New York, and more.
Book Reviews
English in Print: From Caxton to Shakespeare to Milton by Valerie Hotchkiss and Fred C. Robinson
On The Market
Collecting cocktail books.
Dear Reader
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Catalogs Received
Calendar: Auctions & Fairs
Columns
Gently Mad
Charles Hobson, book artist.
Fine MAPS
Local maps
Fine Presses
The Printery
Beyond the Basics
Book censuses.
How I Got Started
James Goode, bookplate collector.
Auction Report
Dickens’s desk, great Gregynogs, and dear doggerel.