It took Thatcher Wine a year to amass 2,000 well-preserved white vellum and cream-colored leather-bound books for a “gentleman’s library” in the Northern California estate of a private equity manager.

The Nympho and Other Maniacs. The Sun Is My Undoing. I Who Should Command All. All three are book titles from the far-flung collection of the Institute Library on Chapel Street, and all three catch ...

Editor's note: The artwork, which can be seen lower in this story, may be offensive to some readers. The talk at the Newark Library these days has nothing to do with an anticipated book collection, ...