Byways in Bookland. By James Westfall Thompson. [Essays.].
Author | : University of California (BERKELEY, California). Book Arts Club |
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Total Pages | : 202 |
Release | : 1935 |
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Author | : University of California (BERKELEY, California). Book Arts Club |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 202 |
Release | : 1935 |
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Author | : James Westfall Thompson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 1935 |
Genre | : Bibliographical literature |
ISBN | : |
A collection of ten essays, six reprinted from various periodicals.
Author | : James Westfall Thompson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 202 |
Release | : 1935 |
Genre | : Bibliography |
ISBN | : 9780836911589 |
Author | : James Westfall Thompson |
Publisher | : Port Washington, N.Y. : Kennikat Press |
Total Pages | : 520 |
Release | : 1966 |
Genre | : History |
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Author | : Harold Rabinowitz |
Publisher | : Crown |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2007-12-18 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0307419665 |
A collection of sixty classic and contemporary essays, stories, lists, poems, quotations, and cartoons that celebrates the joys of reading, the feeling of spending hours browsing through a bookstore, and the people for whom buying books is a necessity. Booklovers will find themselves in good company within the pages of A Passion for Books, beginning with science-fiction great Ray Bradbury's foreword and throughout contributions like-- Umberto Eco's How to Justify a Private Library, dealing with the question everyone with a sizable library is inevitably asked: "Have you read all these books?"; Gustave Flaubert's Bibliomania, the tale of a book collector so obsessed with owning a book that he is willing to kill to possess it; and Anna Quindlen's How Reading Changed My Life, in which she shares her optimistic view on the role of reading and the future of books in the computer age. Interspersed throughout are entertaining lists--Ten Bestselling Books Rejected by Publishers Twenty Times or More, Norman Mailer's Ten Favorite American Novels and many more-- plus select writings on bookstores, book clubs, cartoons about books and a specially prepared "bibliobibliography" of books about books. Whether you consider yourself a bibliomaniac or just someone who enjoys reading, A Passion for Books will provide you with a lifetime's worth of entertaining, informative, and pleasurable reading on your favorite subject--the love of books.
Author | : Robert Alan Shaddy |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Antiques & Collectibles |
ISBN | : |
The essays and bibliography in this work provide an approach to the history of books and book collecting. It includes a long essay on the phenomenon of bibliophilia and bibliomania and the intense, sometimes consumingly passionate feelings collectors held for their collections.
Author | : New York Public Library. Research Libraries |
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Total Pages | : 632 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : Library catalogs |
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