Coming Events
September/October 2003
features
Creative Collaboration
Poet
and NEA Chair Dana Gioia champions the fine press book
A Patriotic Act
Used book stores fight for the freedom to read
How
the USA PATRIOT Act affects booksellers and collectors, and what you can
do about it.
Georg Salter's Dust Jackets
—Bookseller
Jürgen Holstein reveals himself to be a collector, too.
The First Folio
A new census. Adapted from Anthony James West's A
New Worldwide Census of First Folios, published by Oxford University
Press
The Accidental Collector
"My
intention wasn't to become a collector of books..."
Plus we reveal how Newsweek got the facts right but the story on used books wrong, that the ABAA called off talks with eBay about book fraud, and management changes at Abebooks. Dee Stewart continues her popular survey of recent bookseller catalogs, and we review four books about books.