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Gala 100th Issue!
Firsts celebrates with a special milestone issue…
Barry Moser: A Dreamer of Dreams – the illustrator/bookman has spent the past five years illustrating the Pennyroyal Caxton Bible, published in October. It is a fitting culmination of a career at the forefront of American illustrators and fine press publishers.
100 More of the Century’s Best Books – The results of Firsts readers’ survey of the best books left off the experts’ lists.
Collecting James Joyce – Nearly every survey of the most important books of the Twentieth Century puts Joyce’s Ulysses at the top. We survey the life and the writings of “The Century’s Greatest Writer.”
Of Signatures and Skulls – Multiple award-winning writer – and collector – Chris Offutt offers some advice to collectors from a writer’s point of view.
The Once and Future Firsts – Firsts publisher and editor-in-chief, Robin and Kathryn Smiley, look back at their adventures producing the magazine, and offer a peek at the Firsts of the 2000s.
PLUS: Books into Film – The Informer