September/October 2023

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She Didn’t Want to Write: Collecting Anya Seton
The Extraordinary Adventures of Rinker Buck
A CLOSER LOOK: The Ghostway
BOOKS INTO FILM: Hopscotch

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She Didn’t Want to Write: Collecting Anya Seton

Anya Seton’s parents, Ernest Thompson Seton and Grace Gallatin Seton, were writers, but their daughter declared her intention never to be caught up in what she called “the drudgery, the essential loneliness of writing.” And yet when she did begin writing her thousands upon thousands of enthusiastic readers made her one of the most popular novelists of the mid-Twentieth century.

Anya Seton: A Checklist of First Editions

Seton was so popular that her books were read and re-read. First editions in collector’s condition often are difficult to find—and they can be pricey.

The Extraordinary Adventures of Rinker Buck

Have you ever dreamed about flying a Piper Cub two-seat airplane from coast to coast, or floating down the Mississippi on a raft, or even more challenging, traveling the entire length of the Oregon Trail in a covered wagon? Rinker Buck actually did all those things and wrote immensely entertaining and enlightening books about them.

Editor’s Letter

Calendar & Catalogue Reports

A Closer Look

The Ghostway by Tony Hillerman

Books into Film

Hopscotch, a novel written by Brian Garfield, a film directed by Ronald Neame

Contributors & Upcoming in the November/December 2023 Issue