Coming Events
September/October 2005
Features
Competitive book collecting
thrives on campus and FB&C announces a national book-collecting contest [Read online]
The Corrections to the Corrections
The story behind Jonathan
Franzen’s big book
The Children’s Anarchist
— How William Godwin
reinvented children’s literature
How to Make a Book Cover
— The art of Josef Capek
Columns
Gently Mad
— Passing on the passion for
collecting
— The million-dollar map [Read online]
Fine Presses
— James Castle
Beyond the Basics
By Joel Silver — The origins of modern cloth
bindings
William Miglore, Amherst’s book-collecting
champion [Read online]
departments
Digest
A printing museum, Rare Book School, map thefts, and
more
Book Reviews
Fine Pick: Foul Play! The Art and Artists of the
Notorious 1950s E.C. Comics; plus Cartographica Extraordinaire
Catalog Review
Offerings from booksellers
Auction Report
— Highlights of book auctions
worldwide