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2015 Bookseller Resource Guide
Contents Summer 2015

Documenting America

By Jonathan Shipley

Farm Security Administration photographer Marion Post Wolcott’s dusty roadways, juke joints, and tenant houses.

Look Beyond Books

Read Online

By Erin Blakemore

Literary-themed ephemera and realia can be substantial additions—or extravagant centerpieces—to book collections.

Gently Mad

A Bibliomaniac in Paradise

By Nicholas A. Basbanes

Library conservation efforts pay off in Hawaii

Record-Breaker

Miniature Martyrs

By Ian McKay

A tiny tome makes a big splash

Book Art

Serving the Muse

By Richard Minsky

An interview with Carolee Campbell

Beyond the Basics

Read Online

Collecting Old Books on a Budget

By Joel Silver

Suggestions for frugal collectors

In the Library

Japanese Books Under the Occupation

By Yukako Tatsumi and John B. Hench

The University of Maryland’s Prange Collection

Fine Maps

Maps from the “Stone Age”

By Jeffrey S. Murray

How lithography revolutionized map publishing

Sold@Auction

From Choirbooks to Comics

By Ian McKay

A roundup of first editions, manuscripts, maps, and fine art

On the Block

Thinning the Herd

By Jeremy Dibbell

Larry McMurtry Sells his Wells

How I Got Started

Sherlock Holmes & Vincent Starrett

Collector Ray Betzner

Digest

Read Online

The Allure of Vintage Travel Posters

Book: Adventures in Bookbinding

Read Online

Art: Icelandic Imagery

Object: The Brontës’ Table

Plus

FineBooksmagazine.com

Dear Reader

Quotes & Comments

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