Description
Biography of a Book, Part 1
Firsts’ Contributing Editor Peter Coveney begins a two-part article discussing “the backstory of how a particular book or classic came to be written and published and its cultural afterlife—a sort of biography of a book.” And what books they are! Moby-Dick is just the beginning.
Candice Millard:
Extraordinary Nonfiction Storyteller
In just three books, all of them masterworks, Candice Millard has combined her restless enthusiasm for research with her unusual storytelling ability to become one of the leading narrative historians of our era.
Candice Millard:
An Annotated Checklist of First Editions
All three of Millard’s books are recent publications, so a collector should look for pristine condition and, hopefully, a copy signed by the author.
Editor’s Letter
Catalogue Reports
Books into Film
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, a novel written by R. A. Dick and a film directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz from a screenplay by Philip Dunne.
Antiquarian Notes
“What Do I Know?”