Coming Events
January/February 2005
Features
Cervantes’s Wild Ride
Don Quixote, written
by a washed-up ex-con, lives on after 400 years.
Mark Twain in a Wooden Barrel
The Clemens
family library is found at the bottom of a barrel.
Explorers and mapmakers
invented a giant Western river.
Life After Wartime
The story behind
the Sue Barton nursing series.
columns
Gently Mad
Anything
can be anywhere.
Fine Presses
Old Stile Press
is more than pretty pictures.
Beyond the Basics
The more the merrier
with extra-illustration.
Glen Miranker investigates—and collects—Sherlock Holmes.
departments
Digest
Booksellers doing good; Shakespeare’s secrets; Quaritch sold;
a Bibliofind interview; and more.
Some Sharp Opinions from New-York Dealers from the New York Times, January 26, 1890
Fine Pick: History
of the Book in Canada, plus a Neruda
biography.
Offerings from booksellers.
Auction Report
Highlights
of book auctions worldwide.