SPECIAL REPORT
Gift Guide for Book Lovers
You’ve waited all
year—
our annual
list of
great holiday
presents
for readers,
writers,
and bookish
types.
Departments
DIGEST
The Gift of Closure
World War II veteran returns two sixteenth-century volumes he took from a German salt mine in 1945.
DIGEST
Google v. Gutenberg
Harvard University Library Director Robert Darnton discusses his new book, The Case for Books: Past, Present, and Future.
Dear Reader
Season of Thanks and Giving
Fine Books’ new editor Rebecca Rego Barry talks about the upcoming holiday season.
Letters to the Editor
See what readers are saying about the 2010 Compendium.
Calendar
Find book fairs and auctions in your area or around the world.
Featured Columns
Gently Mad
Gift to Open Again and Again
Nicholas Basbanes offers a list of beautiful books perfect for any reader on your holiday shopping list.
Sold@Auction
Autumn Auctions
A rare cider-making cookbook; special editions of Steinbeck, Nabokov, and Whitman; and a book on horse hooves from 1809.
Fine Books Interview
Young Modern(ist)
Cambridge book-collecting contest winner Boris Jardine chats with Fine Books about his modernism collection as well as The Cambridge Literary Review he co-edited.