An edition of A passion for books: A book lover's treasury of stories, essays, humor, lore, and lists on collecting, reading, borrowing, lending, caring for, and appreciating books (1999)

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An edition of A passion for books: A book lover's treasury of stories, essays, humor, lore, and lists on collecting, reading, borrowing, lending, caring for, and appreciating books (1999)

A passion for books

a book lover's treasury of stories, essays, humor, lore, and lists on collecting, reading, borrowing, lending, caring for, and appreciating books

1st ed.

by and

  • 13 Want to read
  • 1 Have read

Presents sixty classic and contemporary essays, lists, poems, stories, quotations, and cartoons that celebrate the joys of reading, appreciating, and collecting books.

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Times Books
Language
English
Pages
380

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A passion for books: a book lover's treasury of stories, essays, humor, lore, and lists on collecting, reading, borrowing, lending, caring for, and appreciating books
October 6, 1999, Times Books
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Table of Contents

Foreword by Ray Bradbury
Page ix
Introduction: A Passion for Books
Page xvii
Unpacking My Library by Walter Benjamin
Page 4
In a Second-Hand Bookshop by Christopher Morley
Page 5
The Ritual by Rob Kaplan
Page 13
How to Get Started in the Book Business by Stuart Brent
Page 19
"Look Who's Been Remaindered Now"
Page 26
Ten Best-Selling Books Rejected by Publishers Twenty of More Times
Page 27
Lending Books by Anatole Broyard
Page 28
On the Return of a Book Lent to a Friend by Christopher Morley
Page 32
Welcome Home Borrowed Book
Page 33
How to Justify a Private Library by Umberto Eco
Page 34
How to Organize a Public Library by Umberto Eco
Page 37
Samuel Pepys's Library by Nicholas Basbanes
Page 40
Pillow Books by Clifton Fadiman
Page 43
The New Lifetime Reading Plan by Clifton Fadiman and John S. Major
Page 49
Comfort Found in Good Old Books by George Hamlin Fitch
Page 55
The Collector by Susan Sontag
Page 62
Bibliomania by Gustave Flaubert
Page 64
"All the Friedrich Nietzsche You'll Ever Need"
Page 77
Bibliomania by Roger Rosenblatt
Page 78
The Book Action by Solly Ganor
Page 80
From Areopagitica by John Milton
Page 88
Books Unread by Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Page 89
Ten Books That Shaped the American Character by Jonathan Yardley
Page 94
Books That Changed America by Robert B. Downs
Page 96
The Commerce of Reading by Michel de Montaigne
Page 98
Book Collecting by Robertson Davies
Page 102
"Holy Cow"
Page 110
Bibliomaniacs by John Mitchell
Page 111
They Don't Call it a Mania for Nothing by Harold Rabinowitz
Page 122
Bibliolexicon
Page 134
What is the Matter With the Bookshop? by A. Edward Newton
Page 135
"Non-Books"
Page 147
The Memorable Books That Never Existed
Page 148
The Last of His Race by A. Edward Newton
Page 150
The Perfect Book by William Keddie
Page 163
Books Are the Windows of the Soul by Henry Ward Beecher
Page 164
How Reading Changed My Life by Anna Quindlen
Page 165
Three by Quindlen
Page 173
Talking of Old Books by A. S. W. Rosenbach
Page 175
Potch by Leo Rosten
Page 196
"Damn It! Wait Your Turn!"
Page 205
A Good Time to Start a Book Club by Al Silverman
Page 206
Invasion of the Book Envelopes by John Updike
Page 217
"And to Some People We Might Not Sell It at Any Price"
Page 220
My Friends by Petrarch
Page 221
Norman Mailer's Ten Favorite American Novels
Page 222
W. Somerset Maugham's Ten Greatest Novels
Page 223
The Bible Through the Ages by Ben D. Zevin
Page 224
Aldus Manutius by William Dana Orcutt
Page 240
Benjamin Franklin's Epitaph
Page 256
The Collector by William Targ
Page 257
The Newark Public Library by Philip Roth
Page 278
Why Does Nobody Collect Me? by Robert Benchley
Page 281
How Not to Care for Books by Holbrook Jackson
Page 286
On Reading and Collecting by Herbert Faulkner West
Page 297
How to Care for Books by Estelle Ellis and Caroline Seebohm
Page 313
Fifteen Books We Would Memorize If We Were the "Living Books" Characters in Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 by The Editors
Page 321
"I Just LIke to Be in Their Presence Occasionally"
Page 323
100 Greatest Novels in the English Language by A. Edward Newton
Page 325
Top 100 English-Language Novels of the Twentieth Century by The Editors of the Modern Library
Page 334
91 Chambers Street by Edward Robb Ellis
Page 337
Bibliobibliography -- Books About Books: A Selection
Page 343
Permission Acknowledgments
Page 351

Edition Notes

Published in the United States by Times Books, a division of Random House, Inc. ... and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 343-349).

Published in
New York, USA
Genre
Literary collections.
Copyright Date
1999

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
028. 9 (ddc21)
Library of Congress
Z1003 .P33 1999, Z 1003 P33 1999

Contributors

Editor
Harold Rabinowitz
Editor
Rob Kaplan
Foreword
Ray Bradbury

The Physical Object

Format
Paperback
Pagination
xxii, 355 p.; ill.
Number of pages
380
Dimensions
23.3 x 15.5 x 3.2 centimeters
Weight
544 grams

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL37984M
Internet Archive
passionforbooksb00rabi
ISBN 10
0812931122, 0965043077, 096504307X
ISBN 13
9780965043076
LCCN
99025583
OCLC/WorldCat
41076338
Library Thing
56712
Goodreads
1405566

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