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Contents Autumn 2010

Features

Read Online

Holiday Gift Guide

By Rebecca Rego Barry

The annual Fine Books gift guide offers 20 terrific ideas for bibliophiles.

Famous Last Words

By Jonathan Shipley

The centennial of his death and the 175th anniversary of his birth, 2010 has been a yearlong celebration of all things Mark Twain, concluding with his enigmatic autobiography, published this fall.

We Are the Champions

By Christopher Lancette

Meet the 2010 National Collegiate Book Collecting Contest winners.

 

Digest

A young designer rejuvenates Penguin's classics

Book: Walt Whitman, collage artist

Art: The New York Art Book Fair

Object: Preserving a mining archive

Exhibit: North Carolina's Audubon gallery

Plus

Dear Reader

Quotes & Comments

Marketplace

Advertising Index

Featured Columns

Gently Mad

Boston Bookman

By Nicholas A. Basbanes

Publisher and collector David R. Godine.

Book Art

Where Book Art and Technology Mingle

By Richard Minsky

Conservator and bookbinder Peter Verheyen.

Beyond the Basics

Original Boards

By Joel Silver

The attraction of original boards.

In the Library

Magellan and Cook, Cloves and Mangoes

By John Delaney

Explore the hidden worlds of Magellan and Cook at Princeton.

On the Block

Great Expectations

By Jeremy Dibbell

Round two of the Arcana sale.

How I Got started

Hollywood Ephemera

By Ellen F. Brown

Collector Tom Heyes.