Rudyard Kipling and the Bhoys at Yale
How a scrap of a poem launched the world’s largest collection of Kipling.
Hollywood Bound
Scripts from the silver screen are highly collectible, particularly when you’re dealing with classic films like Gone With the Wind, Casablanca, and Citizen Kane.
Featured Columns
Gently Mad
Welcome to Wonderland
One man’s quest for everything Alice
Record-Breaker
The Triumph of Odilon Redon
The Symbolist painter and printmaker conquered at auction
Book Art
Biblioclast
An interview with Doug Beube
Beyond the Basics
Read Online
Collector and Bookseller: A Vanishing Relationship?
Personal interaction and friendly discourse are the main ingredients in a robust antiquarian book market
In the Library
Sangorski & Sutcliffe
Jeweled bindings and modern illuminated manuscripts at the Harry Ransom Center
Fine Maps
‘Looking Up the Country’
Accurate maps of the battlefield made all the difference for the Union Army
Sold@Auction
’Round the World
Confucius in Europe, Salzmann in Jerusalem, and Bernard Romans in colonial America
On the Block
Hocus Pocus Focus
A marvelous collection of magic books and ephemera will disappear at auction
How I Got Started
Raymond Chandler and Crime Fiction
Collector Al Kaff