The author traces the history of books and their collectors. He begins with the library in Alexandria 2500 years ago and moves through time to present day collectors and collections. The text is supplemented by 16 pages of b&w photos, line art, and engravings.
Richly anecdotal and fully documented, this history of book-collecting is a celebration of books and the people who have revered, gathered and preserved them over the centuries.
From the author of "A Gentle Madness" comes a 21st-century guide to book collecting that deals with the traditional methods of acquisition and the electronic tools now available on the Internet. Topics include how to determine if a book is a first edition, the importance of dust jackets, scouting flea markets, how to work book fairs, and the ...
Nicholas A. Basbanes bemoans the state of the book today, fearful that many are simply disappearing as libraries de-access them, and surveying the history of looting, burning, defacement, and decay with an eye to what can be done about these and other problems.
Nicholas Basbanes's A Gentle Madness focused on the obsessive lives of book collectors. Now, in Patience And Fortitude, he considers the more comprehensive concept of book culture - and the continual relevance of books in our lives. Patience And Fortitude considers the evolving form of the book over the centuries, preservation efforts, and the ...
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 ...
Named for the lions reposing at the entrance of the New York Public Library, this anecdotal volume relates tales from the eccentric world of the book, as told by librarians and booksellers.
For Yale University Press, which celebrates its hundredth birthday in 2008, the century has been an eventful one, punctuated with no few surprises. The Press has published more than 8,000 volumes through the years, scores of bestsellers and award-winners among them, and these books have come to fruition through the efforts of a host of colorful ...
This book collects thirty-three of Nicholas Basbanes' most engaging articles grouped into three sections: Book Culture; People; and, Places. Basbanes writes passionately about bibliomania, bibliokleptomania, and biblioclasms, as well as book people like Otto Bettmann, Tom Wolfe, Michael Zinnman, and others. He travels the world, visiting and ...
This collection of over 500 quotations captures the wisdom and wit of the most insightful things ever said about books, spoken and written by such distinct legendary figures as Aeschylus, Ernest Hemingway, John Ruskin, Helen Keller, and Thomas Jefferson.
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