Inside Autumn 2018
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The award-winning author and illustrator Robert McCloskey found inspiration on a secret island off Maine’s coast
By Stephen Blakely
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the Vatican librarian takes on the twenty-first century
By William Butts
Gently Mad
The Magic of Handwriting
Pedro Corrêa do Lago’s autograph collection
Digest
The Newberry, Renewed
Digest
Frazetta’s Paintings
Digest
Early Baseball Cards
Record-Breaker
Picturing Nancy Drew
Tandy’s original cover art
Beyond the Basics
Booksellers’ Catalogues
An overlooked collecting field
In the Library
Bound to Amaze
Book arts at the National Museum of Women in the Arts
Fine Maps
Along the 49th Parallel
Marking the Canada-U.S. border
On the Block
At the Zoo
Wassenaar’s fly-away success
Sold@Auction
Hail, Caesar!
A roundup of first editions, manuscripts, and fine art
How I Got Started
Illustrator Joseph Hémard
Collector Farley Katz
It’s not a surprise that John Ronald Reuel Tolkien received a lot of fan mail during his life, but it is a surprise how diverse in nature it is.…
Before digging into the nitty-gritty of what Archbishop Bruguès has undertaken—wrangling the Vatican Library into the twenty-first century—I asked…
Earlier this year, we invited dozens of antiquarian and rare book dealers to submit their most noteworthy sales of books or manuscripts over the past…