Unpacking My Library
Title | Unpacking My Library PDF eBook |
Author | Leah Price |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Total Pages | 210 |
Release | 2011-11-29 |
Genre | Photography |
ISBN | 0300170920 |
As words and stories are increasingly disseminated through digital means, the significance of the book as object—whether pristine collectible or battered relic—is growing as well. Unpacking My Library: Writers and Their Books spotlights the personal libraries of thirteen favorite novelists who share their collections with readers. Stunning photographs provide full views of the libraries and close-ups of individual volumes: first editions, worn textbooks, pristine hardcovers, and childhood companions. In her introduction, Leah Price muses on the history and future of the bookshelf, asking what books can tell us about their owners and what readers can tell us about their collections. Supplementing the photographs are Price's interviews with each author, which probe the relation of writing to reading, collecting, and arranging books. Each writer provides a list of top ten favorite titles, offering unique personal histories along with suggestions for every bibliophile. Unpacking My Library: Writers and Their Books features the personal libraries of Alison Bechdel, Stephen Carter, Junot Díaz, Rebecca Goldstein and Steven Pinker, Lev Grossman and Sophie Gee, Jonathan Lethem, Claire Messud and James Wood, Philip Pullman, Gary Shteyngart, and Edmund White.
Book Collecting and Library Monthly
Title | Book Collecting and Library Monthly PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 446 |
Release | 1970 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
American Book Publishing Record
Title | American Book Publishing Record PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 1132 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | American literature |
ISBN |
ABC for Book Collectors
Title | ABC for Book Collectors PDF eBook |
Author | John Carter |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 219 |
Release | 1992 |
Genre | Book collecting |
ISBN |
Modern Book Collecting
Title | Modern Book Collecting PDF eBook |
Author | Robert A. Wilson |
Publisher | Skyhorse |
Total Pages | 309 |
Release | 2010-11-01 |
Genre | Antiques & Collectibles |
ISBN | 1628732423 |
Modern Book Collecting offers advice that answers all the basic questions a book lover and collector might have—what to collect and where to find it, how to tell a first edition from a reprint, how to build an author collection, how to get the best price from dealers, how to understand the prices and rarity of books, and more. With a handy dictionary of terms used in auction and dealer catalogs and a new section on Internet resources, this is a must-have guide for book lovers.
ABHB Annual Bibliography of the History of the Printed Book and Libraries
Title | ABHB Annual Bibliography of the History of the Printed Book and Libraries PDF eBook |
Author | Hendrik D.L. Vervliet |
Publisher | Springer |
Total Pages | 489 |
Release | 2013-11-11 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9401188025 |
The history of printing, books, and libraries, is confined only to a limited extent within the boundaries of individual countries. There are, indeed, few historical developments which have played a more universal role, in reaction against all kinds of particularism, than type design, printing, book production, publishing, illustration, binding, librarianship, journal ism, and related subjects. Their history should be assessed and studied primarily in an international, not in a local, context. The bibliographical resources, however, which the historian of these sub jects has at his disposal correspond hardly at all to the essentially inter national character of the object of his studies. Since the appearance of the retrospective bibliography of BIG MORE and WYMAN, covering the subject comprehensively up to r88o, the only current bibliography has been the lnternationale Bibliographie des Buck-und Bi bliothekswesens. Covering a representative part of newly published liter ature, it appeared from rgz8, but did not survive the Second World War. More recently, several useful, but limited, bibliographies have appeared.
The Leisure Hour Monthly Library
Title | The Leisure Hour Monthly Library PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 864 |
Release | 1867 |
Genre | |
ISBN |