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Basbanes, Nicholas A. AUTOGRAPHED - Every Book Its Reader: The Power of the Printed Word to Stir the World (AUTOGRAPHED Limited Edition of 250 with Slipcase)
HarperCollins 2005 1584561777 / 9781584561774 First Edition Hardcover New Hardcover Signed by Author
Signed by Author Brand new signed, numbered limited edition. The publisher's shrink wrap was removed just to verify and the edition is signed and numbered. This edition is number 104. Product Description:Inspired by a landmark exhibition mounted by the British Library in 1963 (Printing and the Mind of Man) of 440 books that "made things happen" in the world, Basbanes examines the specific aspects of book culture, considers various works that have shaped our culture, the course of history, and influenced the way we see the world. Basbanes also asks what we can know about such figures as John Milton, Edward Gibbon, John Locke, Isaac Newton, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Adams, Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, Henry James, Thomas Edison, Helen Keller -- even the notorious Marquis de Sade and Adolf Hitler -- by knowing what they have read. Basbanes profiles some of the most articulate readers of our time -- David Mc Cullough, Harold Bloom, Robert Fagles, Robert Coles, Helen Vendler, Elaine Pagels, Daniel Aaron, Christopher Ricks, Matthew Bruccoli, and Perri Klass among them. Oak Knoll Press commissioned this Collectors Edition, featuring premium materials and superlative workmanship. The binding is Smyth-sewn and handcrafted in Franconia cloth. Attractively illustrated with fifty photographs, the book itself is stamped with 22-carat gold on the spine, wrapped in a dust jacket, and housed in a matching, custom-designed slipcase. Never before has a work by Nicholas Basbanes been so lavishly produced. Fans of his earlier work, like the National Book Critics Circle Award nominated A Gentle Madness, or the critically acclaimed A Splendor of Letters, will enjoy Every Book Its Reader, an exploration of book culture and the ways books have nudged the course of history and influenced the way we see the world. - Limited to 250 copies, SIGNED and numbered by the author on a colophon page printed for this edition. Orders normally ship in 1-2 business days depending on what time payment is completed.
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Basbanes, Nicholas A. NEW - A Splendor of Letters: The Permanence of Books in an Impermanent World
Harper Perennial 2004 0060580801 / 9780060580803 Paperback New Paperback
Brand new. Just a bit of ever so slight shelf wear but it is new, crisp and unread! May have publishers remainder mark on the edge just to assure it is not returned to the store. About this title: The final volume in an acclaimed trilogy for bibliophiles (after A Gentle Madness and Patience & Fortitude) focuses on efforts to preserve books and other printed matter from the ravages of deterioration, destruction and obsolescence. The historical range here is expansive, encompassing texts by classical authors known today only through secondhand descriptions, William Blake's self-published illustrated volumes and used book sales at modern libraries. Even the most ancillary data have the power to fascinate: who knew, for example, that the Roman emperor Claudius was also probably the last scholar fluent in the language of the ancient Etruscans? But the research skills Basbanes displays are matched by the lively quality of his interviews, like an extended conversation with a Sarajevo librarian who saved thousands of Croatian volumes from the Serbian ethnic cleansing campaign. Other chapters, which describe how American libraries are regularly pruned of old books by less violent means, owe a heavy (and acknowledged) debt to Nicholson Baker's Double Fold, with minor updates to recap new trends in preservation. A final section elaborates on the potential threat of the e-book, but remains optimistic that love of the physical act of reading will enable the printed page to prevail. Even those who find the evidence unconvincing should find themselves compelled by story after story on the salvation of books. Basbanes's longtime fans will rejoice at more of the same, while new readers will no doubt be swiftly caught up in the book-loving spirit. Orders normally ship in 1-2 business days depending on what time payment is completed.
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