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Title:

Speaking of books : the best things ever said about books and book collecting / edited by Rob Kaplan and Harold Rabinowitz.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

Crown Publishers,

Copyright Date:

c2001

Description:

xx, 251 p. ; 22 cm.

Subject:

Books--Quotations, maxims, etc.
Book collecting--Quotations, maxims, etc.

Other Authors:

Kaplan, Rob.
Rabinowitz, Harold, 1948-

Notes:

Includes index.

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.

ISBN:

9780609608524
0609608525

LCCN:

00065585

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

KSPG296 -- Burlington Public Library (Burlington)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

GEPG771 -- West Des Moines Public Library (West Des Moines)