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A gentle madness : bibliophiles, bibliomanes, and the eternal passion for books : with a new preface / Nicholas A. Basbanes.
LIBRA Z992 .B34 1999
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Basbanes, Nicholas A., 1943-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Book collecting.
- Bibliomania.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xxix, 638 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First Owl books edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : H. Holt, 1999.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Touching the hand
- Balm for the soul
- Rule Britannia
- America, Americans, Americana
- Brandy for heroes
- To have and to have no more
- Infinite riches
- Mirror images
- Instant ivy
- Obsessed amateurs
- Destiny
- Continental drift
- The Blumberg collection
- Carpe Diem.
- Notes:
- "An Owl book."
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 575-612) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0805061762
- 9780805061765
- OCLC:
- 41067878
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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