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...first folio of Shakespeare for which Harry Widener paid $67,000 still sweats it out on the shelf. These two are the only books possessed by the University which are never permitted to be handled...
This is a de luxe anthology written by bookworms for bookworms. The only wolf calls in its pages rise when a bug-eyed bibliomaniac spots an unescorted Gutenberg Bible or First Folio Shakespeare. With the knowingness of a convention of beekeepers discussing the nuptial flight of the queen, 40-odd bibliophiles talk about the designing, the collecting, the stealing and the forging of books. Some of the highlights...
...Shakespeare First Folio copy (there are some 200 of them) went at auction to an anonymous New Yorker last week for $22,000 -a good price, but way below the record...
Forward to Originals. Now in the reprint business "to stay," Ben Zevin plans a full-scale invasion of the "original" field next year (sample: a life of Bing Crosby, by his brother Ted; F.D.R. Speaks, edited by Ben Zevin). Most ambitious project, scheduled for 1947: a 25-lb. folio Bible designed by Bruce Rogers, No. 1 U.S. book designer, to sell for about...
...Golden World. Soon Q "set out a quire of virgin folio paper" and, under the influence of Robert Louis Stevenson, wrote his first adventure story (Dead Man's Rock). He also "asked the lady of my affection to be my wife. We had halted . . . beside a low wall coped by a quantity of wild thyme, on a tuft of which I rested a hand as I spoke and waited for her answer. To this day, halting before a tuft of the plant I press it and it recalls that answer in its fragrance." In "the general security of life...