Editions & Impressions:Twenty Years on the Book Beat

Editions and Impressions: Twenty Years on the Book Beat brings together the best of Mr. Basbanes’s book journalism. He reports first-hand on a nascent library springing up on the battlefield in Iraq. He describes putting hundreds of thousands of dollars on the line at a New York auction on behalf of a friend and placing bids that, in some instances, exceeded his annual salary. In Sweden, he writes about a seventeenth-century palace library left unfinished when builders walked off the job th...