The ultimate Martha gift is definitely a first edition of her first book, Entertaining, from 1982. It’s a collector’s item ...

In his delightful memoir of collecting rare and fine books, The Book Beautiful, Sebastian writes, “…don’t miss out on the many-layered, intoxicating pleasures of book collecting….

And it took the patient sleuthing of a rare books and manuscripts curator from the Newberry Library to reunite the lost books — some printed decades before Shakespeare penned his first play ...