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Women of Vision
National Geographic celebrates the fearless female photojournalists who risk it all to make compelling pictures
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The FB&C Holiday Gift Guide
A list of the season’s best bookish wares
Intelligence Gathering
Inside three private collections of spycraft, code-breaking, and cryptology
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The Persistence of Poe
Book collector Susan Jaffe Tane on her unrivaled collection of Edgar Allan Poe and her new exhibit at New York’s Grolier Club
Featured Columns
Gently Mad
Boston’s New Literary District
The city embarks on a major campaign to honor its writers
Record-Breaker
The First English Book
An incunable from Caxton’s press made $1.8 million
Beyond the Basics
“Not In…”
Why catalogue descriptions with “not found in” citations can be tricky
Book Art
The Center for Book Arts at 40
An interview with its founder Richard Minsky
In the Library
Fakes, Lies, and Forgeries
The Bibliotheca Fictiva collection on exhibit in Baltimore
Fine Maps
Mapping Time
Tough decisions at Washington’s International Meridian Conference
Sold@Auction
Summer Blockbusters
From Anglo-Saxon manuscript fragments to Wolverine’s comic debut
On the Block
The $8.8-Million Family Library
A “time capsule” of a book collection dazzled buyers
How I Got Started
Fine Bindings
Collector Anthony Davis