Category: Books on Books

Gentle Madness

By: Basbanes, Nicholas

Price: $6.50

Publisher: : May 2014

Seller ID: 812024

ISBN-13: 9780805061765

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The passion to possess books has never been more widespread than it is today; indeed, obsessive book collecting remains the only hobby to have a disease named after it. A Gentle Madness, finalist for the 1995 National Book Critics Circle award, is an adventure among the afflicted. Richly anecdotal and fully documented, it combines the perspective of historical research with the immediacy of investigative journalism. Above all, it is a celebration of books and the people who have revered, gathered, and preserved them over the centuries.

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A Splendor of Letters: The Permanence of Books in an Impermanent World

By: Basbanes, Nicholas A

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Harper : November 2003

Seller ID: 481420

ISBN-13: 9780060082871

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

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, such as the willful de...
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A Splendor of Letters: The Permanence of Books in an Impermanent World

By: Basbanes, Nicholas A

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Harper : November 2003

Seller ID: 507920

ISBN-13: 9780060082871

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

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, such as the willful de...
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Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion for Books

By: Basbanes, Nicholas A.

Price: $7.50

Publisher: : October 2013

Seller ID: 790184

ISBN-13: 9780805036534

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

A history of book lore, book culture, and book lovers begins in Alexandria more than 2,500 years ago and passes through the Middle Ages and the Renaissance to the present, offering special emphasis on collecting in Great Britain and North America.
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Patience and Fortitude: Wherein a Colorful Cast of Determined Book Collectors, Dealers, and Librarians Go About the Quixotic Task of Preserving a Legacy

By: Basbanes, Nicholas A.

Price: $6.00

Seller ID: 376850

ISBN-13: 9780060514464

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

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, Wolfenb ttel, 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.Taking the book's grand titl...
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Shakespeare Saved My Life

By: Bates, Laura

Price: $6.50

Seller ID: 567150

ISBN-13: 9781402273148

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

A female professor, a super maximum security prisoner, and how Shakespeare saved them bothShakespeare professor and prison volunteer Laura Bates thought she had seen it all. That is, until she decided to teach Shakespeare in a place the bard had never been before--supermax solitary confinement.In this unwelcoming place, surrounded by inmates known as the worst of the worst, is Larry Newton. A convicted murderer with several escape attempts under his belt and a brilliantly agile mind on his shoulders, Larry was trying to break out of prison at the same time Laura was fighting to get her program...
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Library: An Unquiet History

By: Battles, Matthew

Price: $5.00

Publisher: : October 2013

Seller ID: 812022

ISBN-13: 9780393325645

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

He explores how libraries are built and how they are destroyed, from the decay of the great Alexandrian library to scroll burnings in ancient China to the destruction of Aztec books by the Spanish--and in our own time, the burning of libraries in Europe and Bosnia.

Encyclopedic in its breadth and novelistic in its telling, this volume will occupy a treasured place on the bookshelf next to Baker's Double Fold, Basbanes's A Gentle Madness, Manguel's A History of Reading, and Winchester's The Professor and the Madman.
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A Pound of Paper: Confessions of a Book Addict

By: Baxter, John

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books : December 2003

Seller ID: 725978

ISBN-13: 9780312317256

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

In the rural Australia of the fifties where John Baxter grew up, reading books was disregarded with suspicion, owning and collecting them with utter incomprehension. Despite this, by the age of eleven Baxter had 'collected' his first book - "The Poems of Rupert Brooke." He'd read the volume often, but now he had to own it. This was the beginning of what would become a major collection and a lifelong obsession. His book-hunting would take him all over the world, but his first real find was in London in 1978, when he spotted a rare copy of a Graham Greene children's book while browsing on a stal...
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How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read

By: Bayard, Pierre

Price: $5.00

Publisher: : March 2011

Seller ID: 812598

ISBN-13: 9781596914698

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

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, Mo...
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Now All We Need Is a Title: Famous Book Titles and How They Got That Way

By: Bernard, André

Price: $3.00

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company : October 1996

Seller ID: 789953

ISBN-13: 9780393314366

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Andre Bernard has researched the stories behind more than one hundred of the most famous titles in the English language to produce a fascinating volume rich in literary anecdote and publishing lore. The Great Gatsby was almost titled Trimalchio in West Egg, while some unknown editor told William L. Shirer, "Please God, don't ask us to publish a book called The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich." It's a wonderful romp among the literary monuments.Raymond Chandler to Alfred A. Knopf: "I'm trying to think of a good title for you to want me to change."
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The Novel Cure: An A to Z of Literary Remedies

By: Berthoud, Ella,Elderkin, Susan

Price: $12.50

Publisher: Canongate Books : September 2017

Seller ID: 812811

ISBN-13: 9781786891044

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Novel Cure: From Abandonment to Zestlessness: 751 Books to Cure What Ails You

By: Berthoud, Ella/Elderkin, Susan

Price: $7.00

Seller ID: 513224

ISBN-13: 9780143125938

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Delightful... elegant prose and discussions that span the history of 2,000 years of literature.--Publisher's Weekly A novel is a story transmitted from the novelist to the reader. It offers distraction, entertainment, and an opportunity to unwind or focus. But it can also be something more powerful--a way to learn about how to live. Read at the right moment in your life, a novel can--quite literally--change it. The Novel Cure is a reminder of that power. To create this apothecary, the authors have trawled two thousand years of literature for novels that effectively promote happiness, health...
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Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age

By: Birkerts, Sven

Price: $5.50

Publisher: : May 2011

Seller ID: 87680

ISBN-13: 9780449910092

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Gutenberg Elegies: the Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age

By: Birkerts, Sven

Price: $6.00

Publisher: : July 2012

Seller ID: 541524

ISBN-13: 9780865479579

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

A reissue of the book that first examined the future of reading and literature in the electronic age, now with a new introduction and Afterword In our zeal to embrace the wonders of the electronic age, are we sacrificing our literary culture? Renowned critic Sven Birkerts believes the answer is an alarming yes. In The Gutenberg Elegies, he explores the impact of technology on the experience of reading. Drawing on his own passionate, lifelong love of books, Birkerts examines how literature intimately shapes and nourishes the inner life. What does it mean to hear a book on audiotape or decipher ...
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BONHAMS FINE BOOKS & MANUSCRIPTS 1 MARCH 2017 LONDON

By: BONHAMS,

Price: $7.50

Publisher: BONHAMS : January 2017

Seller ID: 510550

ISBN: B075GVCZDT

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Vol. 2 Start Here Read Your Way Into Amazing Authors

By: Book Riot

Price: $4.00

Seller ID: 377416

ISBN-13: 9781619277342

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

My Reading Life: What I Read, How It Felt, and What I Thought (A Book Journal for Book Lovers) (My Memorable Life)

By: Books, Spruce

Price: $6.50

Publisher: Spruce Books : January 2022

Seller ID: 656063

ISBN-13: 9781632174222

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Bring mindfulness and intentionality to reading with this charming guided journal created especially for book-lovers. Much more than just a list of the books you've read, this journal offers thoughtful prompts that encourage readers to: - record what makes each book uniquely meaningful to you - think about which books you'd like to share with whom--and why - note the lines that moved you most or the life lessons you learned from reading a particular book - list which books you'd consider worthy of a re-read--or not Mixed in are one-off pages that offer opportunities to have some fun with y...
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Maximum Security Book Club: Reading Literature in a Men's Prison

By: Brottman, Mikita

Price: $6.00

Seller ID: 354949

ISBN-13: 9780062384348

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

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, Shakespeare's Macbeth, Stevenson's Dr....
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Instant Expert: Collecting Books

By: Budman, Matthew

Price: $4.00

Publisher: House of Collectibles : May 2004

Seller ID: 800765

ISBN-13: 9780375720543

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

King's English, The: Adventures of an Independent Bookseller

By: Burton, Betsy

Price: $6.50

Publisher: Gibbs Smith : March 2005

Seller ID: 449237

ISBN-13: 9781586856878

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Betsy Burton, owner of The King's English bookstore in Salt Lake City, has been a bookseller for nearly thirty years, and a passionate book lover all her life. Her modestly sized, yet widely respected, shop has hosted authors such as E. L. Doctorow, Isabel Allende, John Updike, Margaret Atwood, and Sue Grafton, and she has built a reputation as a passionate purveyor of the written word in a world where stores like her's are a dying breed. Burton now shares her story, including the amusing trials and triumphs of author visits, attempts at censorship, the modern business of bookselling, and the...
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