Descriptionill. ; 28 cm. Contents: The making of a bookseller [Priscilla Juvelis] / Nicholas A. Basbanes. A gift for the gab: hawking books in the hinterland / Jeffrey S. Murray. The best companions [Menendez Pelayo] / Christina Pelayo. The devil and Ambrose Bierce / Daniel Lindley. Gifts of silence: the art books of James Castle / Tom Trusky. Pulp fiction [Pulp culture: the art of fiction magazines, by Frank M. Robinson and Lawrence Davidson] / Gary Turley. Fun with Zuleika / Ben Graf Henneke. All things Irish / Paulette Dininny. Witness to a revolution / Grant Menzies. Wells and Welles / Roy Meador. Pugilistic undercards, poet of conscience, stars of the stage, and more Norman conquests / Ian McKay.