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Contents Autumn 2015
The Wonder of Alice
After 150 years, Lewis Carroll’s masterpiece retains its grip on our collective imagination.
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FB&C 2015 Holiday Gift Guide
Buying for fellow bibliophiles and art lovers? Here are our top 20 ideas.
A Taste for Books
Four professional chefs dish on collecting cookbooks.
Gently Mad
Road-Tripping Through Greece
Magnificent sights and unexpected discoveries in the land of Homer
Record-Breaker
The Portable Vesalius
A monumental treatise on anatomy in a smaller package
Book Art
The Book as Immersive Experience
An interview with Felicia Rice
Beyond the Basics
Collectors and Mr. Pickwick
The quest for the perfect Pickwick
In the Library
Aunt Maria’s Book
A family copy of Henry David Thoreau’s A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
Fine Maps
The Search for Magnetic North
Confirming the coordinates of the elusive Magnetic Pole
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A “Long-Lost” Manuscript Surfaces
A roundup of first editions, manuscripts, and fine art
On the Block
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Words, Words, Words
The massive book collection of a Hollywood dialect coach
How I Got Started
Automotive Books
Collector Michael J. Rieker