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catalog abstract "Presents sixty classic and contemporary essays, lists, poems, stories, quotations, and cartoons that celebrate the joys of reading, appreciating, and collecting books.".
catalog contributor b11446870.
catalog contributor b11446871.
catalog created "c1999.".
catalog date "1999".
catalog date "c1999.".
catalog dateCopyrighted "c1999.".
catalog description "Benjamin Franklin's epitaph -- The collector / William Targ -- The Newark Public Library / Philip Roth -- Why does nobody collect me? / Robert Benchley -- How not to care for books / Holbrook Jackson -- On reading and collecting / Herbert Faulkner West -- How to care for books / Estelle Ellis and Carolin Seebohm -- Fifteen books we would memorize if we were the "Living Books" characters in Ray Bradbury's novel Fahrenheit 451 / The editors -- "I Just Like to be in Their Presence Occasionally" -- 100 greatest novels in the English language / A. Edward Newton -- Top 100 English-language novels of the twentieth century / The editors of the Modern Library, 1998 -- 91 Chambers Street / Edward Robb Ellis.".
catalog description "Books are the windows of the soul / Henry Ward Beecher -- How reading changed my life / Anna Quindlen -- Three by Quindlen -- Talking of old books / A.S.W. Rosenbach -- Potch / Leo Rosten -- "Damn It! Wait Your Turn!" -- A good time to start a book club / Al Silverman -- Invasion of the book envelopes / John Updike -- "And to Some People We Might Not Sell It at any Price" -- My friends / Petrarch -- Norman Mailer's ten favorite American novels -- W. Somerset Maugham's ten greatest novels -- The bible through the ages / Ben D. Zevin -- Aldus Manutius / William Dana Orcutt.".
catalog description "Foreword / Ray Bradbury -- In a second-hand bookshop / Christopher Morley -- Unpacking my library / Walter Benjamin -- The ritual / Rob Kaplan -- How to get started in the book business / Stuart Brent -- "Look Who's Been Remaindered Now" the best-selling books rejected by publishers twenty or more times -- Lending books / Anatole Broyard -- On the return of a book lent to a friend / Christopher Morley -- Welcome home borrowed book / Anonymous -- How to justify a private library / Umberto Eco -- Samuel Pepys's library / Nicholas Basbanes -- Pillow books / Clifton Fadiman -- The new lifetime reading plan / Clifton Fadiman and John S. Major -- Comfort found in good old books / George Hamlin Fitch.".
catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-349).".
catalog description "Presents sixty classic and contemporary essays, lists, poems, stories, quotations, and cartoons that celebrate the joys of reading, appreciating, and collecting books.".
catalog description "The collector / Susan Sontag -- Bibliomania / Gustave Flaubert -- "All the Friedrich Nietzsche You'll Ever Need" / Bibliomania Roger Rosenblatt -- The book action / Solly Ganor -- From Areopagitica / John Milton -- Books unread / Thomas Wentworth Higginson -- Ten books that shaped the American character / Jonathan Yardley -- Books that changed America / Robert B. Downs -- The commerce of reading / Michel de Montaigne -- Book collecting / Robertson Davies -- "Holy Cow!" -- Bibliomaniacs / John Michell -- They don't call it a mania for nothing / Harold Rabinowitz -- Bibliolexicon -- What is the matter with the bookshop? / A. Edward Newton -- "Non-Books" -- Ten memorable books that never existed -- The last of his race / A. Edward Newton -- The perfect book / William Keddie.".
catalog extent "xxi, 355 p. :".
catalog identifier "0812931122".
catalog issued "1999".
catalog issued "c1999.".
catalog language "eng".
catalog publisher "New York : Times Books,".
catalog subject "028/.9 21".
catalog subject "Books and reading Literary collections.".
catalog subject "Books and reading.".
catalog subject "Z1003 .P33 1999".
catalog tableOfContents "Benjamin Franklin's epitaph -- The collector / William Targ -- The Newark Public Library / Philip Roth -- Why does nobody collect me? / Robert Benchley -- How not to care for books / Holbrook Jackson -- On reading and collecting / Herbert Faulkner West -- How to care for books / Estelle Ellis and Carolin Seebohm -- Fifteen books we would memorize if we were the "Living Books" characters in Ray Bradbury's novel Fahrenheit 451 / The editors -- "I Just Like to be in Their Presence Occasionally" -- 100 greatest novels in the English language / A. Edward Newton -- Top 100 English-language novels of the twentieth century / The editors of the Modern Library, 1998 -- 91 Chambers Street / Edward Robb Ellis.".
catalog tableOfContents "Books are the windows of the soul / Henry Ward Beecher -- How reading changed my life / Anna Quindlen -- Three by Quindlen -- Talking of old books / A.S.W. Rosenbach -- Potch / Leo Rosten -- "Damn It! Wait Your Turn!" -- A good time to start a book club / Al Silverman -- Invasion of the book envelopes / John Updike -- "And to Some People We Might Not Sell It at any Price" -- My friends / Petrarch -- Norman Mailer's ten favorite American novels -- W. Somerset Maugham's ten greatest novels -- The bible through the ages / Ben D. Zevin -- Aldus Manutius / William Dana Orcutt.".
catalog tableOfContents "Foreword / Ray Bradbury -- In a second-hand bookshop / Christopher Morley -- Unpacking my library / Walter Benjamin -- The ritual / Rob Kaplan -- How to get started in the book business / Stuart Brent -- "Look Who's Been Remaindered Now" the best-selling books rejected by publishers twenty or more times -- Lending books / Anatole Broyard -- On the return of a book lent to a friend / Christopher Morley -- Welcome home borrowed book / Anonymous -- How to justify a private library / Umberto Eco -- Samuel Pepys's library / Nicholas Basbanes -- Pillow books / Clifton Fadiman -- The new lifetime reading plan / Clifton Fadiman and John S. Major -- Comfort found in good old books / George Hamlin Fitch.".
catalog tableOfContents "The collector / Susan Sontag -- Bibliomania / Gustave Flaubert -- "All the Friedrich Nietzsche You'll Ever Need" / Bibliomania Roger Rosenblatt -- The book action / Solly Ganor -- From Areopagitica / John Milton -- Books unread / Thomas Wentworth Higginson -- Ten books that shaped the American character / Jonathan Yardley -- Books that changed America / Robert B. Downs -- The commerce of reading / Michel de Montaigne -- Book collecting / Robertson Davies -- "Holy Cow!" -- Bibliomaniacs / John Michell -- They don't call it a mania for nothing / Harold Rabinowitz -- Bibliolexicon -- What is the matter with the bookshop? / A. Edward Newton -- "Non-Books" -- Ten memorable books that never existed -- The last of his race / A. Edward Newton -- The perfect book / William Keddie.".
catalog title "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 / [edited] by Harold Rabinowitz and Rob Kaplan.".
catalog type "Literary collections. fast".
catalog type "text".