Features September/October 2005
By Scott Brown — Competitive book collecting
thrives on campus and FB&C announces a national book-collecting contest [Read online]
The Corrections to the Corrections
By Rolland Comstock — The story behind Jonathan
Franzen’s big book
The Children’s Anarchist
By Jon Pope and Kim Becnel — How William Godwin
reinvented children’s literature
How to Make a Book Cover
By Dana Bartelt — The art of Josef Capek
Columns
Gently Mad
By Nicholas Basbanes — Passing on the passion for
collecting
Fine Presses
By Richard Goodman — 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
Fine Pick: Foul Play! The Art and Artists of the
Notorious 1950s E.C. Comics; plus Cartographica Extraordinaire [Read online]
Catalog Review
Offerings from booksellers
Auction Report
By Ian McKay — Highlights of book auctions
worldwide
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