SPECIAL REPORT
The Big Sell
The rise and fall
of door-to-door
book agents who
roamed the
continent in the
early decades of
the 20th century.
Departments
DIGEST
Edgar Allan is ALIVE!
Upcoming events to honor famed poet Edgar Allan Poe’s 200th birthday and the 160th anniversary of his death.
Jane Austen Relived
The Morgan Library displays over 100 of Austen’s works, some of which are on view for the first time in 25 years.
Calendar
Find book fairs and auctions in your area or around the world.
Featured Columns
Gently Mad
Remarkable Repositories: Assembling the Getty
Marcia Reed, chief curator and head of collection development at the Getty Research Institute, has helped build an astounding collection of rarities over the past 25 years.
On the Block
Up, Up, and Away
Journal of the first manned balloon ascent in America; one of a kind colored plate from Airopaidia; and Charles Dickens’ toothpick.
Round These Isles
Book Notes From The UK
Current events from the world of books in the UK, including the fight to protect a seaside shelter built in 1910 in Margate where T.S. Elliot did some of his writing.