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A Gentle Madness : Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion for Books
Nicholas A. Basbanes
Paperback - $32.95
Richly anecdotal and fully documented, "A Gentle Madness" is a celebration of books and the people who have revered, gathered, and preserved them over the centuries. of photos.
A Splendor of Letters : The Permanence of Books in an Impermanent World
Nicholas A. Basbanes
Paperback - $26.95
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 expande ...
Every Book Its Reader : The Power of the Printed Word to Stir the World
Nicholas A. Basbanes
Hardcover - $49.95
Following his highly regarded books about book collectors and book preservation, Basbanes explores those books that have shaped culture and changed the way the world is viewed.
Every Book Its Reader : The Power of the Printed Word to Stir the World
Nicholas A. Basbanes
Paperback - $26.95
Following his highly regarded books about book collectors and book preservation, Basbanes explores those books that have shaped culture and changed the way the world is viewed.
Patience & Fortitude : Wherein a Colorful Cast of Determined Book Collectors, Dealers, and Librarians Go about the Quixotic Task of Preservin
Nicholas A. Basbanes
Paperback - $32.95
Basbanes's "A Gentle Madness" focused on the obsessive lives of book collectors. Now, in "Patience & Fortitude, " he considers the more comprehensive concept of book culture--and the continual relevance of books in our lives. Two 16-page inserts.
The Well-Educated Mind : A Guide to the Classical Education You Never Had
Susan Wise Bauer
Hardcover - $46.95
Surrounded by more books than ever, readers today are daunted by the classics they have left unread. "The Well-Educated Mind" is a wonderful resource for anyone wishing to explore and develop the mind's capacity to read and comprehend the "greatest h ...
How to Talk about Books You Haven't Read
Pierre Bayard
Hardcover - $32.95
In this provocative, witty book, literature professor and psychoanalyst Bayard argues that non-reading can be just as useful an act as reading. He states that the truly cultivated person is not the one who has read a book, but the one who understands ...
The Power of Delight : A Lifetime in Literature
John Bayley
Hardcover - $49.95
BEGINNING HIS CAREER at Oxford in the 1950s, the ever-incisive John Bayley has been one of the great bulwarks--in the tradition of William Hazlitt and Edmund Wilson--of twentieth-century world literature, and his distinctive sensibility has reshaped ...
Shakespeare and Company (Second Edition)
Sylvia Beach
Paperback - $27.95
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Sylvia Beach was intimately acquainted with the expatriate and visiting writers of the Lost Generation, a label that she never accepted. Like moths of great promise, they were drawn to her well-lighted bookstore and warm hearth on the Left Ban ...