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Basbanes, Nicholas A

Patience & Fortitude: A Roving Chronicle of Book People, Book Places, and Book Culture

Perennial HarperCollins, 2003

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Year of publication
2003
ISBN
0060514469
Place of printing
New York
Author
Basbanes, Nicholas A
Publishers
Perennial HarperCollins
Edition
1st Pbk Edition
Keyword
BOOKS ARCHIVES LIBRARIES BOOK DEALERS
Binding description
S
Dust jacket
No
State of preservation
As New
Binding
Softcover
Inscribed
No
First edition
Yes

Description

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.