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Fine Books Profile
Saving What We Didn't Even Know Needed Saving
Kevin Young, the award-winning poet and director of the Schomburg Center, is blazing the trail for collecting and preserving the written word in the twenty-first century
Feature
On the Book Beat
Nick Basbanes wrote the book on book collecting at the most perfect moment in time
Special Report
Download for free, a extensive listing of clubs, fairs, exhibits, private libraries, classes, and seminars.
Digest
Selling Science
Record-Breaker
Flash Makes a Splash
An original comic strip surprise
In View
Photography's Gilded Age
California's Gold Rush daguerreotypes travel
Beyond the Basics
Self-Isolating (Bibliographically)
Our essential home libraries
In the Library
Scientific Illustration, Pre-Pantone
Standardizing color for collectors of natural history
Sold@Auction
Witches, Plagues, and Pirates
A roundup of first editions, manuscripts, maps, and fine art
On the Block
Literary Quarry
Treasures from the Birmingham Assay Office
How I Got Started
Literary Annuals
Collector Gary Simons
Reflections on the writing of "A Gentle Madness," twenty-five years after its publication
William Shakespeare made some rounds in his time, and many, many more rounds after his time. The…
When Whitman College sociology professor Álvaro Santana-Acuña was in high school, he came across a…