Collecting Saul Bellow
No other post-World War Two American writer has analyzed so completely and humanely the effects of cultural anxiety in the age of technology and rationalism as Saul Bellow. In the process, he won three National Book Awards, the Pulitzer Prize and the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Collection-Building 101
Sir Edmund Hillary climbed Mount Everest “Because it is there.” A pioneering bookseller decided to build a collection of great authors’ first books for exactly the opposite reason: “Because they are not there.”

Worthy of Remembrance: Walter Karig
Although he was a best-selling author and a leading proponent of the “ultra-Naturalist” school of writing, Walter Karig is largely forgotten today. A skilled novelist, Karig also consulted for the television series Victory at Sea, and ghosted Nancy Drew adventures.

Collecting a Circle
The method of organizing a collection around a key author, rather than around a topic, a genre, or even a geographical location, distinguishes circle collecting from other forms of group collections.

Gather & Bind:
The Fundamentals of Book Collecting
Part Ten: Protecting My Investment IV – Insurance

Ten Years Ago
Stephen Crane

Books into Film
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, a novel by Betty Smith, a film by Elia Kazan.