Inside Spring 2026
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Feature
Bookbinding Uncovered
The artisans keeping the craft alive
Feature
Storytelling as an Art
The Society of Illustrators at 125
Gently Mad
On the Case of a Bibliomystery
Reissues of mystery classics
Digest
Life and Death in Ancient Egypt
Record-Breaker
A Book that Gets Beneath the Skin
The holy grail of medical history
In View
Picturing Stories
Photography’s history in children’s books
Modern Firsts
The Iraq War in Fiction
Revisiting the conflict’s legacy through six novels
Beyond the Basics
How Facsimiles Protect the Past
Copies preserve the Mesoamerican codex
Sold@Auction
From Hemingway to Baseball’s Black History
A roundup of rare books, fine art, ephemera, and more
On the Block
A Mystery Writer’s Collection
From the eclectic home of Jane Stanton Hitchcock
How I Got Started
Pulitzer Prize First Editions
Collector Michael L. Wehmeyer
There are wizards at Cambridge University Library. They’re using multispectral imaging (MSI), CT scans, and 3D modeling to peer deep into a book at…
Palm-leaf (lontar) writing has existed on the Indonesian archipelago for over 2,000 years. It was used by a succession of Hindu-Buddhist and Muslim…
For the first time since its 1948 acquisition by the Art Institute of Chicago (AIC), Henri Matisse’s Jazz is on view in its entirety. Matisse’s Jazz…
The first-generation experience of Los Angeles is a pretty affirming one to walk into if you’re of Mexican descent. Famous and infamous for being one…
Ed Hotchner and I just drove her 4094 miles from Ketchum to Key West … ,” writes a legend of American literature in a letter offered at Potter &…
Signed photographs of President Abraham Lincoln are exceedingly scarce, in part because the president’s life was cut dramatically short when he was…
Two major sales at Freeman’s Chicago and Philadelphia locations this spring and summer will bring many highpoints of literature and Americana under…
Also In This Issue
Feature
Bookbinding Uncovered
The artisans keeping the craft alive
Feature
Storytelling as an Art
The Society of Illustrators at 125
Gently Mad
On the Case of a Bibliomystery
Reissues of mystery classics
Digest
Life and Death in Ancient Egypt
Record-Breaker
A Book that Gets Beneath the Skin
The holy grail of medical history
In View
Picturing Stories
Photography’s history in children’s books
Modern Firsts
The Iraq War in Fiction
Revisiting the conflict’s legacy through six novels
Beyond the Basics
How Facsimiles Protect the Past
Copies preserve the Mesoamerican codex
Sold@Auction
From Hemingway to Baseball’s Black History
A roundup of rare books, fine art, ephemera, and more
On the Block
A Mystery Writer’s Collection
From the eclectic home of Jane Stanton Hitchcock
How I Got Started
Pulitzer Prize First Editions
Collector Michael L. Wehmeyer
