Booking Pleasures by Matthews, Jack - 1995

Ohio University Press, 1995. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Ohio University Press. As New in As New dustjacket. Hardcover. 0821411292 . Still in original shrinkwrap. Some fading to the dustjacket in areas. ; 8vo .

Athens: Ohio University Press, 1996. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Fine in dust jacket.

Athens: Ohio University Press, 1995. Hardcover. As new. Hardcover. As new in publisher's shrinkwrap.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Ohio University Press, Ohio University Press. 1995, 191pp. Illustrated. Cloth, with dust jacket. In very good condition. "The covetous foraging for old and rare books, is how Matthews defines booking. It is an act which leads naturally to the pleasures of adding them to one's personal library, then reading them as instruments of light and measure in a murky and chaotic world. The understanding that books are intrinsic to civilized living is wisdom as old as civilization itself; it is affirmed here, in their various ways, by the people who inspire and inhabit these pages the quasi-literate clerk of the steamboat Science on the Ohio River in 1835; a young fiction writer who got drunk one night and stole the bust of Edgar Allen Poe from the Poe Museum in Richmond, Virginia; and a guru of the computer age, who writes Books have always been important to me and to the people around me. Matthews explores the collecting of old dictionaries, whose definitions can be read as a sort of poetry; an… Read More

Ohio University Press, 1995-11-15. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!