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Patience & Fortitude: A Roving Chronicle of Book People, Book Places, and Book Culture
by Basbanes, Nicholas A
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- as new
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- As New
- ISBN 10
- 0060514469
- ISBN 13
- 9780060514464
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STREETSVILLE, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
New York: Perennial HarperCollins, 2003 Book. As New. Trade Paperback. 1st Pbk Edition. The obsessive passion people have had over the past twenty-five hundred years to possess books is commonly known as bibliomania. Basbanes expands the meaning , focusing on the more comprehensive concept of book culture. Visiting many key 'book places' around the world, he talks with a striking variety of kindred spirits, each one a living testament to the unending relevance of these essential artifacts in our lives. He explores the changing form of the book over the centuries and describes the nature of the institutions that have evolved to contain them, including acedmic, public, private, and national repositories. He documents many pertinent book stories that have not been told before, and offers unprecedented depth to others that have barely scratched the surface. He profiles the experiences and thoughts of all kinds of dedicated 'book people', be they librarians, readers, writers, bookmakers, booksellers, preservationists, or collectors. 603p..
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- Bookseller
- KALAMOS BOOKS (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 042682
- Title
- Patience & Fortitude: A Roving Chronicle of Book People, Book Places, and Book Culture
- Author
- Basbanes, Nicholas A
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- New As New
- Edition
- 1st Pbk Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0060514469
- ISBN 13
- 9780060514464
- Publisher
- Perennial HarperCollins
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2003
- Keywords
- BOOKS ARCHIVES LIBRARIES BOOK DEALERS
- Bookseller catalogs
- Books and Bibliographies; Libraries;
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KALAMOS BOOKS
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About the Seller
KALAMOS BOOKS
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STREETSVILLE, Ontario
About KALAMOS BOOKS
Kalamos Books specializes in Books about Greece (Ancient,Byzantine and particularly Modern Greece) and also books about the Balkans & Ottoman Turkey. As well there is a wide selection of Fiction including stories set in Greece, or by Greek authors, as well as historical novels. We can special order books from Greece and handle library purchase orders for books in Greek. In addition we have interesting travel books about other countries, and have some Canadiana and popular fiction.Ask about antique maps and prints and vintage postcards of Greece.
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- Trade Paperback
- Used to indicate any paperback book that is larger than a mass-market paperback and is often more similar in size to a hardcover...