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Beach Read
Henry Beston spent a year in a dune shack on Cape Cod, finding there the inspiration to write The Outermost House, a classic of American nature writing. Where would he go next?
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Edward Curtis’ The North American Indian
Theodore Roosevelt, J. P. Morgan, and Cecil B. DeMille all supported—in one way or another—this million-dollar set of photographs.
On the Plantation
Cammie G. Henry, an early twentieth-century collector of books and ephemera, turned her Louisiana plantation into an arts colony that would one day produce folk artist Clementine Hunter.
On the Block
Bibliotheca Wittockiana
Belgian bibliophile Michel Wittock's fine bindings at auction (again)
How I Got started
Virginia History and China Travels
Collector Jack Spain
Digest
The handwriting is on the wall for American penmanship
Book: Loeb Classical Library turns one hundred
Art: Painting Shakespeare
Object: Collecting play money
Exhibit: The King James Bible at the Bodleian
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Gently Mad
The Power of a Piece of Paper
Bookseller Ken Rendell’s private Museum of World War II
Record-Breaker
Merian’s Entomological Wonder
A third edition of the Metamorphosibus Insectorum Surinamensium
Book Art
New York Revisited
An interview with color wood engraver Gaylord Schanilec
Beyond the Basics
Books in Parts
Serial collecting, Dickens and beyond
In the Library
Patience and Fortitude
Reuniting the Strachey Papers at the Clements Library