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Printed Word Collector’s Set

Three titles that highlight the joy of the printed word.

2010 Rare Book Calendar

By 42-Line. Beautiful 2010 calendar is perfect for any book enthusiast.

A Gentle Madness, Signed & Personalized True First Edition

This is the book that started it all.

In the News

Old Masters Paintings

On Tuesday, 30 March, 2010 Sotheby’s will offer a range of Old Master, Modern... read more

American Premiere

On Tuesday, March 9, 2010, for one evening only, the Grolier Club of New... read more

Ephemera 30

OLD GREENWICH, CT - March 19/20/21, 2010: The Ephemera Society of America and Flamingo... read more

Lives on the Mississippi

An evocative exhibition on the waterways heritage of America will come to the Grolier... read more

Fine Books Returns to Print

February 1, 2010,  Durham, NC.  Fine Books & Collections magazine, which targets collectors of... read more

The Bard of Avon

Certainly the most widely read, most often published, and most influential writer in the... read more

John Ralph Willis Collection

When selections from The John Ralph Willis Collection of Rare Africana come up for... read more

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2010 Bookseller Resource Guide
September/October 2008
Contents
cover

Champion Book Collectors

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By Scott Brown With photographs by Frank Tapia and studioDUDA. Profiles of the three winners of our Collegiate
Book-Collecting Championship.

I Want Your Documents

By Ellen Firsching Brown When Uncle Sam eyes your collection.

Dead People’s Libraries

By Jonathan Shipley A website recreates the libraries of patriots and writers.

Lost Classics

By Anne Trubek 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

Quotes & Comments

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Catalogs Received

Calendar: Auctions & Fairs

ad index

Columns

Gently Mad

By Nicholas Basbanes Charles Hobson, book artist.

Fine MAPS

By Derek Hayes Local maps

Fine Presses

By Richard Goodman The Printery

Beyond the Basics

By Joel Silver Book censuses.

How I Got Started

James Goode, bookplate collector.

Auction Report

By Ian McKay Dickens’s desk, great Gregynogs, and dear doggerel.