About this title: "The covetous foraging for old and rare books", is how Matthews defines "booking". It is an act which leads naturally to the pleasures of adding them to one's personal library, then reading them as instruments of light and measure in a murky and chaotic world. The understanding that books are intrinsic to civilized living is wisdom as old as civilization itself; it is affirmed here, in their various ways, by the people who inspire and inhabit these pages: the quasi-literate clerk of the steamboat Science on the Ohio River in 1835; a young fiction writer who got drunk one night and stole the ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Date Published: 1995
ISBN-13:9780821411292ISBN:0821411292
Description: New in very good dust jacket. New condition of interior text. Shelf wear, crimping and folding at edge of dustjacket. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. 191 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Edition: First Edition, First Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780821411292ISBN:0821411292
Description: Fine in Good jacket. 185 pp, 9" x 6" copy is in near-MINT condition, dust jacket spine is sunned and is protected by a mylar sleeve. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Ohio University Press, Athens, OH
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780821411292ISBN:0821411292
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