Winter 2017

Not Going to Fly

A private archive reveals how Orville Wright grounded an unauthorized biography

By Suzanne Muchnic

Mission: Vietnam

One man's quest to collect the war that still haunts America

By Rebecca Rego Barry

2017 Collector's Resource Guide

Gently Mad

Opera Omnia

Poet, editor, and librettist J. D. McClatchy

Digest

The New William Blake Gallery

book Comparing Leaves of Grass

art California's poets and book artists

object Vintage VHS

Record-Breaker

The Thrill of the Hunt

Hunting and hawking with the Counts du Verne

In View

Through the Eyes of Robert Frank

The overlooked work of the photobook pioneer

Beyond the Basics

Before Printing and the Mind of Man

The significant exhibition that preceded 'PMM'

Fine Maps

Cyrus W. Field Shrinks the World

Connecting the submarine telegraph cable

In the Library

To Market, To Market

Undergrads bid on rare books

Sold@Auction

Cleland Canoodles, Reagan Doodles

A roundup of first editions, manuscripts, maps, and fine art

On the Block

Up, Up, and Away

Mountaineering books & California history

How I Got Started

Victorian Novelists

Collector N. John Hall