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By: N/A
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Publisher: Rr Bowker Llc: October 1977
Seller ID: 460646
ISBN: 0835209857
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Used - Good
By: N/A
Price: $7.50
Publisher: Cornell University Press: January 1992
Seller ID: 461329
ISBN: 080149902X
Binding: Trade Paperback
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By: N/A
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Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal: November 2012
Seller ID: 449223
ISBN: 1579129102
Binding: Hardcover
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In this enthusiastic, heartfelt, and sometimes humorous ode to bookshops and booksellers, 84 known authors pay tribute to the brick-and-mortar stores they love and often call their second homes.
In My Bookstore our greatest authors write about the pleasure, guidance, and support that their favorite bookstores and booksellers have given them over the years. The relationship between a writer and his or her local store and staff can last for years or even decades. Often it's the author's local store that supported him during the early days ...
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Price: $10.00
Publisher: Universe: March 2010
Seller ID: 478833
ISBN: 0789320398
Binding: Hardcover
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A newly revised and updated guide to the world's best literature--all at your fingertips. For discerning bibliophiles and readers who enjoy unforgettable classic literature, 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die is a trove of reviews covering a century of memorable writing. Each work of literature featured here is a seminal work key to understanding and appreciating the written word. Addictive, browsable, knowledgeable--1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die is a boon companion for anyone who loves good writing and an inspiration for anyone who is just beginning to discover...
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Publisher: December 2013
Seller ID: 476015
ISBN: 1594488916
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Used - Good
Price: $7.50
Publisher: Harper: November 2003
Seller ID: 481420
ISBN: 0060082879
Binding: Hardcover
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In A Splendor of Letters, Nicholas A. Basbanes continues the lively, richly anecdotal exploration of book people, places, and culture he began in 1995 with A Gentle Madness (a finalist that year for the National Book Critics Circle Award) and expanded in 2001 with Patience & Fortitude, a companion work that prompted the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and biographer David McCullough to proclaim him "the leading authority of books about books."
Basbanes now offers a consideration of the many pressing issues that surround the role of books in contemporary society, suc...
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Seller ID: 376847
ISBN: 0060593237
Binding: Hardcover
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Inspired by a landmark exhibition mounted by the British Museum in 1963 to celebrate five eventful centuries of the printed word, Nicholas A. Basbanes offers a lively consideration of writings that have "made things happen" in the world, works that have both nudged the course of history and fired the imagination of countless influential people.
In his fifth work to examine a specific aspect of book culture, Basbanes also asks what we can know about such figures as John Milton, Edward Gibbon, John Locke, Isaac Newton, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Adams, Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lin...
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Seller ID: 376850
ISBN: 0060514469
Binding: Trade Paperback
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In his national bestseller, A Gentle Madness, Nicholas Basbanes explored the sweet obsession people feel to possess books. Now, Basbanes continues his adventures among the "gently mad" on an irresistible journey to the great libraries of the past -- from Alexandria to Glastonbury -- and to contemporary collections at the Vatican, Wolfenbuttel, and erudite universities. Along the way, he drops in on eccentric book dealers and regales us with stories about unforgettable collectors, such as the gentleman who bought a rare book in 1939 "by selling bottles of his own blood."
Takin...
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Publisher: Knopf: October 2013
Seller ID: 462012
ISBN: 0307266427
Binding: Hardcover
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A Best Book of the Year: "Mother Jones," "Bloomberg News, ""National Post," "Kirkus Reviews"
A consideration of all things paper its invention that revolutionized human civilization; its thousand-fold uses (and misuses), proliferation, and sweeping influence on society; its makers, shapers, collectors, and pulpers written by the admired cultural historian and author of the trilogy on all things book-related: "A Gentle Madness;" "Patience and Fortitude" ( How could any intelligent, literate person not just love this book? Simon Winchester); and "A Splendor of Letters "( Elegant, wry, and...
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Publisher: October 2009
Seller ID: 50881
ISBN: 0140175903
Binding: Trade Paperback
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By: Bayard, Pierre
Price: $6.50
Publisher: March 2011
Seller ID: 72246
ISBN: 1596914696
Binding: Hardcover
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If civilized people are expected to have read all important works of literature, and thousands more books are published every year, what are we supposed to do in those awkward social situations in which we're forced to talk about books we haven't read? In this delightfully witty, provocative book, a huge hit in France that has drawn huge attention from critics around the world, literature professor and psychoanalyst Bayard argues that it's actually more important to know a book's role in our collective library than its details. Using examples from such writers as Graham Greene, Oscar Wilde,...
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By: Birkerts, Sven
Price: $5.50
Publisher: May 2011
Seller ID: 87680
ISBN: 0449910091
Binding: Trade Paperback
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By: Bogel, Anne
Price: $5.00
Seller ID: 481678
ISBN: 0801072921
Binding: Hardcover
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By: Book Riot
Price: $4.00
Seller ID: 377416
ISBN: 1619277344
Binding: Trade Paperback
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By: Borchert, Don
Price: $5.00
Seller ID: 409357
ISBN: 0753515016
Binding: Trade Paperback
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By: Boxall, Peter
Price: $8.00
Publisher: August 2011
Seller ID: 485545
ISBN: 0789313707
Binding: Hardcover
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By: Brottman, Mikita
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Seller ID: 354949
ISBN: 0062384341
Binding: Trade Paperback
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A riveting account of the two years literary scholar Mikita Brottman spent reading literature with criminals in a maximum-security men's prison outside Baltimore, and what she learned from them--Orange Is the New Black meets Reading Lolita in Tehran.
On sabbatical from teaching literature to undergraduates, and wanting to educate a different kind of student, Mikita Brottman starts a book club with a group of convicts from the Jessup Correctional Institution in Maryland. She assigns them ten dark, challenging classics--including Conrad's Heart of Darkness, Sh...
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By: Burton, Betsy
Price: $6.50
Publisher: Gibbs Smith: March 2005
Seller ID: 449237
ISBN: 1586856871
Binding: Hardcover
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By: Buzbee, Lewis
Price: $5.00
Publisher: January 2010
Seller ID: 409364
ISBN: 1555975100
Binding: Trade Paperback
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Price: $8.00
Seller ID: 374936
ISBN: 0760748217
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Used - Good