A bookseller who collects books? At first glance, it seems like a contradiction. “Twenty-five years ago, the prevailing view among dealers was…
Inside Winter 2025
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Feature
Protecting the Past
Why libraries in our historic sites matter
Feature
Making Parks with Books
How an environmental series helped save the nature it celebrated
Special Supplement
2025 Collector’s Resource Guide
Gently Mad
Building an Imaginary Library
A real collection of books that do not exist
Digest
Should Book Dealers Be Collectors, Too?
Digest
The Bookbinders of Cairo
Digest
Cataloguing Artists’ Books
Digest
Inside Arion Press’s New Home
Record-Breaker
A Comics Legend
Christine Farrell devoted decades to collecting every DC Comics issue
In View
A Light in the Darkness
Russell Lee’s photographs captured the perseverance of American coal miners
Fine Maps
Maps Made to Shape Belief
PJ Mode collects maps that use their designs to influence and persuade
Sold@Auction
From Last Meals to Magic Pigs
A roundup of rare books, photographs, ephemera, and more
On the Block
Anne Rice’s Personal Library
The books that inspired the author’s vampiric worlds
How I Got Started
Women’s Travel Literature of South & Southeast Asia
Collector Nancy K. Boehm
How do libraries approach books that defy simple classification? Artists’ books often intersect text, photography, and graphic design; some have…
Stepping into Arion Press’s new space in San Francisco is a bit like stepping into the past. There, in a city known for twenty-first-century tech,…
When researching potential items to include in the British Library’s current exhibition Medieval Women: In Their Own Words (on view through March 2,…
Also In This Issue
Feature
Protecting the Past
Why libraries in our historic sites matter
Feature
Making Parks with Books
How an environmental series helped save the nature it celebrated
Special Supplement
2025 Collector’s Resource Guide
Gently Mad
Building an Imaginary Library
A real collection of books that do not exist
Digest
Should Book Dealers Be Collectors, Too?
Digest
The Bookbinders of Cairo
Digest
Cataloguing Artists’ Books
Digest
Inside Arion Press’s New Home
Record-Breaker
A Comics Legend
Christine Farrell devoted decades to collecting every DC Comics issue
In View
A Light in the Darkness
Russell Lee’s photographs captured the perseverance of American coal miners
Fine Maps
Maps Made to Shape Belief
PJ Mode collects maps that use their designs to influence and persuade
Sold@Auction
From Last Meals to Magic Pigs
A roundup of rare books, photographs, ephemera, and more
On the Block
Anne Rice’s Personal Library
The books that inspired the author’s vampiric worlds
How I Got Started
Women’s Travel Literature of South & Southeast Asia
Collector Nancy K. Boehm
