Basbanes, Nicholas A.

A GENTLE MADNESS: BIBLIOPHILES, BIBLIOMANES, AND THE ETERNAL PASSION FOR BOOKS.

New York: Henry Holt, (1996). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 584 pages. Reprint of the first edition. Fine condition in fine jacket. A must read for everyone interested in bookselling and bookcollecting, the passion of the chase, the thrill of the formation of a library, the nastiness of the forger, etc. READ MORE about A GENTLE MADNESS: BIBLIOPHILES, BIBLIOMANES, AND THE ETERNAL PASSION FOR BOOKS

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Basbanes, Nicholas A.

A GENTLE MADNESS: BIBLIOPHILES, BIBLIOMANES, AND THE ETERNAL PASSION FOR BOOKS.

Chapel Hill, NC: Fine Books & Press, 2012. 8vo. softcover. 633 pages. Reprint of the first edition. A must read for everyone interested in bookselling and bookcollecting, the passion of the chase, the thrill of the formation of a library, the nastiness of the forger, etc. A fine copy. READ MORE about A GENTLE MADNESS: BIBLIOPHILES, BIBLIOMANES, AND THE ETERNAL PASSION FOR BOOKS

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Basbanes, Nicholas A.

A SPLENDOR OF LETTERS, THE PERMANENCE OF BOOKS IN AN IMPERMANENT WORLD.

(New York: HarperCollins, 2003). 8vo. paper-covered boards, dust jacket. xviii, (ii), 444 pages. First edition, first printing. A fine copy. Basbanes "examines the many materials that have been used over the centuries to record information - among them clay tablets, papyrus scrolls, slabs of stone, palm leaves, animal skins, and hammered sheets of gold and copper." He discusses the current situation on book preservation and conservation textually and physically in relationship to our new electronic..... READ MORE about A SPLENDOR OF LETTERS, THE PERMANENCE OF BOOKS IN AN IMPERMANENT WORLD

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