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Hardcover:
9780756753399 | Reprint edition (Diane Pub Co, February 1, 2002), cover price $35.00
9780805036534, titled "A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion for Books" | Henry Holt & Co, August 1, 1995, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: A history of book lore, book culture, and book lovers begins in Alexandria more than 2,500 years ago and passes through the Middle Ages and the Renaissance to the present, offering special emphasis on collecting in Great Britain and North America
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9780805061765, titled "A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion for Books" | Owl Books, March 1, 1999, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: A history of book lore, book culture, and book lovers begins in Alexandria more than 2,500 years ago and passes through the Middle Ages and the Renaissance to the present, offering special emphasis on collecting in Great Britain and North America
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9780805048261 | Henry Holt & Co, December 1, 1996, cover price $17.95
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9780060196950 | 1 edition (Harpercollins, October 1, 2001), cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Explores the history and continuing relevance of books, introducing readers to librarians, readers, writers, scholars, bookbinders, and booksellers around the world.
Offers a field guide to modern book collectors that covers both traditional and electronic methods of acquisition, discussing such topics as how to spot first or book club editions, working a book fair, dust jackets, and book handling. Reprint. 17,500 first printing.
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9780805051599 | 1 edition (Henry Holt & Co, November 1, 2002), cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Offers a field guide to book collectors that covers both traditional and electronic methods of acquisition, discussing such topics as how to spot first of book club editions, working a book fair, dust jackets, and book handling.
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9780805074413, titled "Among the Gently Mad: Perspectives and Strategies for the Book Hunter in the Twenty-First Century" | 2 reprint edition (Owl Books, November 1, 2003), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Offers a field guide to modern book collectors that covers both traditional and electronic methods of acquisition, discussing such topics as how to spot first or book club editions, working a book fair, dust jackets, and book handling.
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9780060514464 | Reprint edition (Perennial, April 1, 2003), cover price $19.99 | About this edition: The author of A Gentle Madness explores the history and continuing relevance of books, introducing readers to librarians, readers, writers, scholars, bookbinders, booksellers, and collectors around the world.
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9780724102181 | Natl Gallery of Victoria, June 1, 2003, cover price $24.95
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9780060082871 | 1 edition (Harpercollins, December 1, 2003), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Considers the issues that surround the role of books in contemporary society, including book and library destruction and preservation in various parts of the world.
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9780060580803 | Reprint edition (Perennial, November 1, 2004), cover price $16.99 | About this edition: A continuation of the study that began with A Gentle Madness and Patience & Fortitude considers the issues that surround the role of books in contemporary society, including book and library destruction and preservation in various parts of the world.
An exploration of some of the literary works that have most influenced human culture is based on a landmark British Museum exhibition and includes coverage of publications by such writers as David McCullough, Harold Bloom, and Elaine Pagels. By the author of A Splendor of Letters. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.
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9780060593230 | Harpercollins, December 1, 2005, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: In celebration of five eventful centuries of the printed word, Basbanes considers of writings that have 'made things happen' in the world, works that have both nudged the course of history and fired the imagination of influential people.
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9780060593247 | Perennial, December 1, 2006, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: An exploration of some of the literary works that have most influenced human culture is based on a landmark British Museum exhibition and includes coverage of publications by such writers as David McCullough, Harold Bloom, and Elaine Pagels.
From the acclaimed author of A Gentle Madness comes a new collection of more than thirty dispatches from the world of books. Reports on a nascent library in Iraq and a firsthand account of a high-stakes book auction combine with provocative discussions of the deliberate destruction of books and insightful profiles of book collectors, writers, and librarians to create a panoramic view of bibliomania.
Hardcover:
9780979949104, titled "Editions and Impressions: Twenty Years on the Book Beat" | 1 edition (Fine Books Pr, December 8, 2007), cover price $27.95 | About this edition: From the acclaimed author of A Gentle Madness comes a new collection of more than thirty dispatches from the world of books.
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9780300115987 | Yale Univ Pr, October 21, 2008, cover price $30.00
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9780979949135 | Fine Books Pr, May 15, 2010, cover price $27.95
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9780192828613, titled "Elective Affinities" | Oxford Univ Pr, July 1, 1994, cover price $8.95 | also contains Elective Affinities
Product Description: "Some books are unreservedly forgotten; none are unreservedly remembered."-W. H. Auden"A room without books is like a body without a soul."-Cicero"The proper study of mankind is books."-Aldous HuxleyThis collection of more than five hundred quotations captures the wisdom and wit of the most insightful things ever said about books, spoken and written by such legendary figures as: Aeschylus, Ernest Hemingway, John Ruskin, Woody Allen, Thomas Jefferson, Charles Scribner, Maya Angelou, Franz Kafka, George Bernard Shaw, Jane Austen, Helen Keller, Wallace Stevens, Francis Bacon, Malcolm X, Robert Penn Warren, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Groucho Marx, William Carlos Williams, William Faulkner, John Milton, Oprah Winfrey, Robert Frost, George Orwell, and W...read more
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9781620876251 | Skyhorse Pub Co Inc, July 1, 2013, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: "Some books are unreservedly forgotten; none are unreservedly remembered.
Hardcover:
9780307266422 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, October 15, 2013, cover price $35.00
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9780307279644 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, July 1, 2014), cover price $17.95
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9781629147918 | Reissue edition (Skyhorse Pub Co Inc, January 20, 2015), cover price $14.95
Hardcover:
9780760348611 | Voyageur Pr, December 1, 2015, cover price $25.00
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