Descriptionill. ; 28 cm. Contents: The book hunt: Lucky by design [Serendipity Books, Peter B. Howard] / Nicholas A. Basbanes. Old friends, new partners: on the making of an original art book / Susan L. Roth & Jill Oriane Tarlau. Classic designs / Sarah Baldwin & Priscilla Juvelis. Once upon a time: the early years of Charles Perrault's fairy tales / Justin G. Schiller. A comic tradition: collecting British Christmas annuals / David Thompson. Enduring stronghold: Prague's Strahov Monastery and Library / Lucy Gordan. A gift of words / Ben Graf Henneke. Bells, books, and Brontes / Roy Meador. An American collector in Okinawa / Leon K. Walters. The Grangerizing effect / Gene Freeman. Back to the future, matching sets, bond market stirrings, and soapy secrets / Ian McKay.