March/April 2007
Features
The
Fine Books 50
—Our annual report on the top book, map, and autograph
sales.
Teaching the Book Arts
—Embattled
and endangered, the book arts survive on campus.
Columns
Gently Mad
—John
Adams Unbound.
Fine MAPS
—The trials
of a professional map hunter.
Fine Presses
—Robin
Price.
Beyond the Basics
—What
do you call a bunch of books bound together?
How I Got Started
Martha Orr Davenport, 88, still collects Little Red Riding
Hood.
DEPARTMENTS
Digest
Bookseller boot camp, lost and found, preserving printing
history, and more.
Book Reviews
Fine Pick: Benjamin Franklin,
the printer; plus sleaze and sweat, a reading diary, and U. S. Grant.
On The Market
Collecting antiquarian children's books.
Auction Report
Pillaging
Oscar Wilde, firefighting, Rackham, and more.