A Letter From America
From the Antiquarian Book Review
Installments of William Reese's regular column in the
Rare Book Review:2005
A Letter from America XXX: An American Boy in London (February)
A Letter from America XXXI: My Color Plate Book Show (March)
A Letter from America XXXII: Google's Library (April)
A Letter from America XXXIII: Hardball Politics in the Federal Era (May)
A Letter from America XXXIV: The Google Empire Strikes Back (June)
A Letter from America XXXV: The Jay Snider Collection (July)
A Letter from America XXXVI: A Visit to Natchez (August/Sept.)
2004
A Letter from America XXI: ABR Becomes Rare Book Review (February)
A Letter from America XXII: More Fakes, in Maryland This Time (March)
A Letter from America XXIII: The New Hill Pacific Voyages, and San Diego (April)
A Letter from America XXIV: The Exchange Rate and the Rare Book Market (May)
A Letter from America XXV: The New York Book Fair 2004 (June)
A Letter from America XXVI: A Visit to the American Antiquarian Society (July)
A Letter from America XXVII: The Memoirs of Charles Everitt (August/Sept.)
A Letter from America XXVIII: Gilder-Lehrman and the New-York Historical Society (October)
A Letter from America XXIX: The Next Chapter of the American Newspaper Repository (November)
2003
A Letter from America XI: Ernest Wessen and the Midland Rare Book Company (February)
A Letter from America XII: Booksellers' Descriptions and Copyright (March)
A Letter from America XIII: The John Carter Brown Library (April)
A Letter from America XIV: A Trip to Charleston, with Local Botany (May)
A Letter from America XV: The Decline of Local Libraries, and Buying the Pieces (June)
A Letter from America XVI: A Trip to Emory University, Special Collections (July)
A Letter from America XVII: A Trip to the Yucatan, John Lloyd Stephens, and Travel Books (August/Sept.)
A Letter from America XVIII: Why Do Original Boards Matter? (October)
A Letter from America XIX: The End of H.P. Kraus (November)
A Letter from America XX: Louisiana Purchase Bicentennial (December/Jan.)
2002
A Letter from America I: A Visit to Los Angeles (February)
A Letter from America II: Photography as History & Art (March)
A Letter from America III: Paul Mellon's Legacy (April)
A Letter from America IV: Secrets in the Rare Book Business (May)
A Letter from America V: The Malcolm Forbes Sales (June)
A Letter from America VI: History Museums in Austin & New Orleans, with Dining Advice (July)
A Letter from America VII: New Americana State Bibliographies ( August/Sept.)
A Letter from America VIII: Forgeries in Slave Sale Broadsides (October)
A Letter from America IX: Some Tales of American Erotica - November
A Letter from America X: The Library of Congress Rare Book Forum ( December/Jan.)
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