BOOKS AND MEDIA: Briefly Noted

JOURNALS

_Firsts: The Book Collector's Magazine_, September 2008, Volume 18, No.
7. $5.95. This issue contains "Mark Twain Redux" by Kevin Mac Donnell.
This article follows by ten years Mac Donnell's earlier articles which
appeared in the July/August and September 1998 issues of _Firsts_. Mac
Donnell looks at the changes that have occurred in the world of Twain
collecting in the last decade and how prices have changed. He discusses
the impact of the internet on the bookselling industry and reviews some
of the most important new volumes in Twain scholarship.

The publisher's website for this issue is:
http://www.firsts.com/Sep08.html