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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

Lilly Texana

Based entirely upon the Lilly Library's collections, a new work joins the ranks of... read more

Original Sendak Drawing

National Book Auctions, located in Ithaca, NY, recently sold a Maurice Sendak pencil on... read more

Rarely Seen Andrea Palladio

Palladio and His Legacy: A Transatlantic Journey also Includes Specially Commissioned Building Models Showing... read more

50th NY Book Fair

“The best book fair in the world.” - Andy Rooney, CBS “60 Minutes”... read more

Book Collecting Contest

The Center for the Book and the Rare Book and Special Collections Division of... read more

Autographed Portraits

NEW YORK—Swann Galleries’ February 11 Autographs auction was devoted to Signed Historical Photographs from... read more

Colorado Book Seminar

We proudly announce this year's program which includes our Keynote Speaker, Otto Penzler, publisher,... read more

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2010 Bookseller Resource Guide
November 2009
Contents48

SPECIAL REPORT

Gift Guide for Book Lovers

You’ve waited all year—
our annual list of
great holiday presents
for readers, writers,
and bookish types.
By Rebecca Rego Barry
 

Departments

DIGEST

The Gift of Closure

World War II veteran returns two sixteenth-century volumes he took from a German salt mine in 1945. By Christopher Lancette

DIGEST

Google v. Gutenberg

Harvard University Library Director Robert Darnton discusses his new book, The Case for Books: Past, Present, and Future. By Rebecca Rego Barry

Dear Reader

Season of Thanks and Giving

Fine Books’ new editor Rebecca Rego Barry talks about the upcoming holiday season.

Letters to the Editor

See what readers are saying about the 2010 Compendium.

Calendar

Find book fairs and auctions in your area or around the world.

Featured Columns

Gently Mad

Gift to Open Again and Again

Nicholas Basbanes offers a list of beautiful books perfect for any reader on your holiday shopping list. By Nicholas Basbanes

Sold@Auction

Autumn Auctions

A rare cider-making cookbook; special editions of Steinbeck, Nabokov, and Whitman; and a book on horse hooves from 1809. By Ian McKay

Fine Books Interview

Young Modern(ist)

Cambridge book-collecting contest winner Boris Jardine chats with Fine Books about his modernism collection as well as The Cambridge Literary Review he co-edited. Interview by Kimberly Draper