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Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper
by Baker, Nicholson
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0375504443
- ISBN 13
- 9780375504440
- Seller
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Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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About This Item
New York: Random House, 2001 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Black boards, gilt titles on spines, xii, 370, [1] pp, 2 ff color plates, notes, bibliography, index. Neat marginal pencil notations, else fine. DJ in Brodart archival cover. Baker documents the destruction of bound volumes of historic newspapers formerly held in the nation's libraries and their replacement by inferior and often incomplete microfilm copies. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First Edition. . Near Fine/Fine. 21½ X 14½ cm.
Synopsis
Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper is a non-fiction book by Nicholson Baker that was published in April, 2001. An excerpt appeared in the July 24, 2000 issue of The New Yorker, under the title "Deadline: The Author's Desperate Bid to Save America's Past.
Reviews
On Oct 21 2010, Old Saratoga Books said:
An entertaining National Book Circle Award winning book about how libraries jettisoned their newspaper collections in the name of preservation (they got crappy-quality, but space-saving microform copies made up instead).There are so many great insights into the bizarro world at the Library of Congress and I'm afraid used booksellers don't get a lot of good words either. But his writing is wonderful and opinionated and I'm learning a lot about the printed word.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Twin City Antiquarian Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BBLB00008
- Title
- Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper
- Author
- Baker, Nicholson
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0375504443
- ISBN 13
- 9780375504440
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2001
- Keywords
- Libraries Historic Newspapers
- Bookseller catalogs
- Books on Books;
- X weight
- 32 oz
- Size
- 21½ X 14½ cm
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