Nathaniel Hawthorne
Melville dedicated Moby Dick to him. Edgar Allan Poe called him “an undisputed genius.” He wrote about just the kind of stuff we moderns can’t get enough of: witches, adultery, sexual wickedness, hatred of authority, magical herbal remedies and hauntings.

Nathaniel Hawthorne:
A Checklist of First and Major Editions
The Hawthorne collector is fortunate because he can arm himself with an arsenal of high-caliber bibliographical sources.

Collecting Daphne du Maurier
Daphne du Maurier’s life was one of privilege, but she was never quite at ease with herself. The complexities of her nature found their way into her writing, coloring an extraordinary body of work that shocked, thrilled and, above all, entertained thousands of readers over her long career.

Daphne du Maurier: A Checklist
While some of the later works are still abundant in first edition, others, including her first several books, are virtually impossible to find in collector’s condition.

Gather & Bind:
The Fundamentals of Book Collecting
Part Three: The Whatand Why of First Editions

Books into Film
Rebecca, a novel by Daphnedu Maurier; a film by Alfred Hitchcock

Ten Years Ago
March 1995 Checklist Update: Evelyn Waugh