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Friends and Subtle Enemies: Some American Early Bookwomen of the 20th Century

7th September, 2026

FROM THE CURRENT ISSUE: Most Anglophone bibliophiles today with an interest in incunabula will be familiar with Goff numbers (referring to Goff’s Incunabula
in American Libraries; a Third Census, 1964). But what fewer may know is that before Goff was Stillwell, compiler of The Second Census, published in 1940. When I started collecting the works of Margaret Stillwell (1887–1984), I didn’t know this either. In fact, I didn’t even know I had started collecting her books until I was already down the rabbit hole…

 

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