Category: Books on Books

The Unwritten Book: An Investigation

By: Hunt, Samantha

Price: $28.00

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux : April 2022

Seller ID: 178973

ISBN-13: 9780374604912

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

From Samantha Hunt, the award-winning author of The Dark Dark, comes The Unwritten Book, her first work of nonfiction, a genre-bending creation that explores the importance of books, the idea of haunting, and messages from beyond I carry each book I've ever read with me, just as I carry my dead--those things that aren't really there, those things that shape everything I am.A genre-bending work of nonfiction, Samantha Hunt's The Unwritten Book explores the broadest sense of ghosts, ghost stories, and haunting. What is it to be haunted, to be a ghost, to die, to live, to read? Books are ghosts;...
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The Reading Group Handbook: Everything You Need to Know, from Choosing Membersto Leading Discussions

By: Jacobsohn, Rachel W.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Hyperion : April 1994

Seller ID: 85243

ISBN-13: 9780786880027

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Lit: A Memoir

By: Karr, Mary

Price: $13.00

Publisher: Harper : November 2009

Seller ID: 114053

ISBN-13: 9780060596989

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Mary Karr's bestselling, unforgettable sequel to her beloved memoirs The Liars' Club and Cherry--and one of the most critically acclaimed books of the year--Lit is about getting drunk and getting sober; becoming a mother by letting go of a mother; learning to write by learning to live. The Boston Globe calls Lit a book that "reminds us not only how compelling personal stories can be, but how, in the hands of a master, they can transmute into the highest art." The New York Times Book Review calls it "a master class on the art of the memoir" in its Top 10 Books of 2009 Citation. Michiko Kakutani...
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A Boy at the Hogarth Press (Modern Voices)

By: Kennedy, Richard

Price: $7.77

Publisher: Hesperus Press : October 2011

Seller ID: 192939

ISBN-13: 9781843914617

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

A charming coming of age memoir, shedding light on the workings of Leonard and Virginia Woolf's illustrious Hogarth Press "I know I was expected to say something brilliant for the benefit of the group that had collected round us. The truth was that I had only really read Orlando, Mrs Dalloway and The Common Reader . . . I said I didn't think she created character as well as a writer like Turgenev. I could see this didn't go down at all well and felt rather like Peter denying Christ." After a rather unsuccessful education at Marlborough College, in 1926 16-year old Richard Kennedy was put firm...
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Reading Jackie: Her Autobiography in Books

By: Kuhn, William

Price: $13.98

Publisher: Nan A. Talese : December 2010

Seller ID: 134998

ISBN-13: 9780385530996

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis never wrote a memoir, but she told her life story and revealed herself in intimate ways through the nearly 100 books she brought into print during the last two decades of her life as an editor at Viking and Doubleday. Based on archives and interviews with Jackie's authors, colleagues, and friends, "Reading Jackie" mines this significant period of her life to reveal both the serious and the mischievous woman underneath the glamorous public image. Though Jackie had a reputation for avoiding publicity, she willingly courted controversy in her books. She was the first ed...
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Basic Bookbinding

By: Lewis, A. W.

Price: $5.37

Publisher: Dover Publications : June 1957

Seller ID: 173135

ISBN-13: 9780486201696

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Starting from basic principles and assuming no previous experience, this modern exposition of the elements of bookbinding enables both the beginner and the expert to apply the latest and most simplified techniques to rebinding old favorites and binding many new paperback books.A complete list of all necessary materials, including a guide to the proper selection of tools, paper, boards, cloth, leather, or sheepskin covering fabrics and lettering inks and pigments, introduces the subject. In surprisingly easy stages, you are shown how to collate a book, sew it, back it, trim it, make boards, and...
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Antiquarian books: An insider's account

By: Lewis, Roy Harley

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Arco Pub. Co : January 1978

Seller ID: 190017

ISBN-13: 9780668045872

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Valerie & Walter's Best Books for Children

By: Lewis, Valerie V., M., Walter Mayes

Price: $7.98

Publisher: Harper Perennial : August 1998

Seller ID: 61760

ISBN-13: 9780380794386

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Your Sure-Handed Guide Through A World Of Books For ChildrenBooks and reading are an essential part of every child's development. But how can parents, educators and librarians choose the best books among the many thousands that compete for their attention? Here's how--with a comprehensive, charming, common-sense guide from two leading experts on children and reading.With wit, candor and boundless enthusiasm, Valerie V. Lewis and Walter M. Mayes select more than two thousand wonderful books fro children from birth to age 14: from stories that babies can literally chew on, to the very best choic...
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Invitation to the Classics (Masterworks)

By: Louise Cowman [editor], Os Guiness [editor]

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Baker Pub Group : August 1998

Seller ID: 194743

ISBN-13: 9780801011566

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

You know you should read more of the classics, but you need more motivation and you\u2019re not certain where to begin. Reading Invitation to the Classics will help on both counts.
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A Jeweler's Eye: Islamic Art of the Book from the Vever Collection

By: Lowry, Glenn D.,Nemazee, Susan

Price: $16.17

Publisher: Univ of Washington Pr : January 1988

Seller ID: 188114

ISBN-13: 9780295966779

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

A Reading Diary: A Passionate Reader's Reflections on a Year of Books

By: Manguel, Alberto

Price: $6.50

Publisher: Picador : November 2005

Seller ID: 143293

ISBN-13: 9780312424459

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

While traveling in Calgary, Alberto Manguel was struck by how the novel he was reading (Goethe's "Elective Affinities") seemed to reflect the social chaos of the world in which he was living. An article in the daily paper would suddenly be illuminated by a passage in the novel; a long reflection would be prompted by a single word. He decided to keep a record of these moments, rereading a book each month, and forming "A Reading Diary": a volume of notes, reflections, impressions of travel, of friends, of events public and private, all elicited by his reading. From "Don Quixote" (August) to "The...
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The Dictionary of Imaginary Places

By: Manguel, Alberto,Guadalupi, Gianni

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin : January 2010

Seller ID: 190188

ISBN-13: 9781435125384

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Publish This Book: The Unbelievable True Story of How I Wrote, Sold and Published This Very Book

By: Markley, Stephen

Price: $19.99

Publisher: Sourcebooks : March 2010

Seller ID: 188733

ISBN-13: 9781402229350

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

From the author of Ohio (Best Books of Summer 2018 Selection in Time, Vulture, and the New York Post) comes a brilliant, hilarious, and deeply touching memoir that blows the roof off the genre.Fed up with the complicated quest of trying to get a book published, Stephen Markley decided to cut to the chase and simply write a memoir about trying to publish a book--this book, to be precise. It's the most "meta" experiment he's ever untaken, and like a Mobius strip in book form, the concept is circular, self-indulgent, and--maybe, possibly, hopefully--brilliant. For fans of Dave Eggers and David Se...
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My Life in Middlemarch

By: Mead, Rebecca

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Crown : January 2014

Seller ID: 38840

ISBN-13: 9780307984760

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

A New Yorker writer revisits the seminal book of her youth--Middlemarch--and fashions a singular, involving story of how a passionate attachment to a great work of literature can shape our lives and help us to read our own histories. Rebecca Mead was a young woman in an English coastal town when she first read George Eliot's Middlemarch, regarded by many as the greatest English novel. After gaining admission to Oxford, and moving to the United States to become a journalist, through several love affairs, then marriage and family, Mead read and reread Middlemarch. The novel, which Virginia Woolf...
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Images of the Southern Writer

By: Morrow, Mark

Price: $13.98

Publisher: University of Georgia Press : October 1985

Seller ID: 194754

ISBN-13: 9780820308104

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books

By: Nafisi, Azar

Price: $9.00

Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks : December 2003

Seller ID: 191657

ISBN-13: 9780812971064

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Every Thursday morning for two years in the Islamic Republic of Iran, a bold and inspired teacher named Azar Nafisi secretly gathered seven of her most committed female students to read forbidden Western classics. As Islamic morality squads staged arbitrary raids in Tehran, fundamentalists seized hold of the universities, and a blind censor stifled artistic expression, the girls in Azar Nafisi's living room risked removing their veils and immersed themselves in the worlds of Jane Austen, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Henry James, and Vladimir Nabokov. In this extraordinary memoir, their stories become ...
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Anglo-Saxon Textual Illustration: Photographs of Sixteen Manuscripts with Descriptions and Index (Research in Medieval Culture)

By: Olgren, Thomas H.

Price: $59.50

Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications : May 1992

Seller ID: 130000

ISBN-13: 9781879288102

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Illustrations and major decoration of sixteen Anglo-Saxon manuscripts, fully described and indexed, are reproduced here in 454 photographs, many for the first time. Manuscripts included are: the Athelstan Psalter, the Harley Psalter, the Bury Psalter, the Paris Psalter, the Boulogne Gospels, the Arenberg Gospels, the Trinity Gospels, the Eadui Codex, Pembroke College MS 301, the Bury Gospels, the Judith of Flanders Gospels (Pierpont Morgan MSS 709 and 708), the Monte Casino Gospel Book, the Hereford Gospels, the Psychomachia of Prudentius, and the Junius Manuscript.
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Critics, Monsters, Fanatics, and Other Literary Essays

By: Ozick, Cynthia

Price: $12.50

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt : July 2016

Seller ID: 184811

ISBN-13: 9780544703711

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

In a collection that includes new essays written explicitly for this volume, one of our sharpest and most influential critics confronts the past, present, and future of literary culture. If every outlet for book criticism suddenly disappeared -- if all we had were reviews that treated books like any other commodity -- could the novel survive? In a gauntlet-throwing essay at the start of this brilliant assemblage, Cynthia Ozick stakes the claim that, just as surely as critics require a steady supply of new fiction, novelists need great critics to build a vibrant community on the foundation of ...
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Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson

By: Paglia, Camille

Price: $10.50

Publisher: Vintage Books : September 1991

Seller ID: 156294

ISBN-13: 9780679735793

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Here is the fiery, provocative, and unparalleled work of feminist art criticism that launched Camille Paglia's exceptional career as one of our most important public intellectuals. Is Emily Dickinson "the female Sade"? Is Donatello's David a bit of pedophile pornography? What is the secret kinship between Byron and Elvis Presley, between Medusa and Madonna? How do liberals and feminists--as well as conservatives--fatally misread human nature? This audacious and omnivorously learned work of guerrilla scholarship offers nothing less than a unified-field theory of Western culture, high and low, s...
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Book Lust: Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment, and Reason

By: Pearl, Nancy

Price: $8.49

Publisher: Sasquatch Books : August 2003

Seller ID: 7047

ISBN-13: 9781570613814

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

What to read next is every book lover's greatest dilemma. Nancy Pearl comes to the rescue with this wide-ranging and fun guide to the best reading new and old. Pearl, who inspired legions of litterateurs with What If All (name the city) Read the Same Book, has devised reading lists that cater to every mood, occasion, and personality. These annotated lists cover such topics as mother-daughter relationships, science for nonscientists, mysteries of all stripes, African-American fiction from a female point of view, must-reads for kids, books on bicycling, chick-lit, and many more. Pearl's enthusia...
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Category: Books on Books