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Strange Beauty
The captivating drawings, paintings, and prints of bestselling novelist Audrey Niffenegger
Big Sur
A land of indulgence and escape for generations of writers, from Robert Louis Stevenson to Henry Miller
Illustrating the Classics
Rand McNally tapped Milo Winter to illustrate its Windermere series
Fine Books Review
Shelf Reading
Unpacking My Library: Writers and Their Books
Sold@Auction
Danish Artists, Italian Naturalists, and Turkish Sultans
Fine art, maps, manuscripts, and illustrated books recently sold
On the Block
The Big Sale
A major Raymond Chandler collection, fresh to market
How I Got Started
Skiing books and ephemera
Collector Ingrid Wicken
Digest
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The end of an era at Serendipity Books
Book: LA’s Siglio Press
Art: Lynd Ward, novelist without words
Object: Bibliophilately
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Exhibit: Gothic Grandeur at the Getty
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FineBooksmagazine.com
Dear Reader
Quotes & Comments
Marketplace
Featured Columns
Gently Mad
Prime Pickwicks and Beyond
A private collection of Charles Dickens goes on exhibit at Southern Methodist University
Record-Breaker
Persia’s Physician
The first Arabic edition of Canon medicinae
Book Art
Book Architect
An interview with Hedi Kyle, inventor of the “flag book”
Beyond the Basics
In the Margins
The effect of notes, marginalia, and ownership marks on a book’s value
In the Library
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Creative Destruction and the Photography Revolution
Dawn’s Early Light: The First 50 Years of American Photography at Cornell University Library
Fine Maps
Photomapping
Mapmakers were among the first to embrace the new science of photography