An edition of Speaking of books
(2001)
Speaking of books
the best things ever said about books and book collecting
1st ed.
by Rob Kaplan and Harold Rabinowitz
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Speaking of books: the best things ever said about books and book collecting
2001, Crown Publishers
in English
- 1st ed.
0609608525 9780609608524
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Table of Contents
Machine generated contents note: Introduction: Books in Our Future / ix
1. In Praise of Books/3
2. The Pleasures fBuying and Owning Books /7
3. What to Read / 29
4. The Influence of Books /45
5. Bibliomania / 7
6. The Pleasures of Reading / 67
7. What Books Do-and Don't Do-for Us / 8
8. All Those Books /97
9. How to Read / os
10. Libraries / I3
11. Good Books and Bad /25
12. The Comfort Found in Books /i39
13. Lending and Borrowing Books / i5
14. Books and the Young /i6i
15. What Books Can-and Cannot-Teach Us /i69
16. Authors and Their Readers /83
17. Collectors and Collecting / 95
18. The Book Trade /207
19. The Enemies of Books /217
20. Books Forever! /227
Index of Authors / 245.
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Includes index.
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