Category: Books on Books

A Portrait Of Southern Writers

Price: $21.00

Publisher: Hill Street Press : October 2000

Seller ID: 58464

ISBN-13: 9781892514837

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Great Endings: Closing Lines of Great Novels

Price: $8.75

Publisher: Harpercollins : April 1995

Seller ID: 129020

ISBN-13: 9780060183479

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

A collection of closing passages from great nineteenth- and twentieth-century novels is accompanied by brief discussions of technique and explanatory notes.
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The Great Conversation (Great Books of the Western World)

Price: $11.00

Publisher: University of Chicago : January 1991

Seller ID: 55917

ISBN: B000BO9PHY

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The Horn Book Guide to Children's and Young Adult Books: Reviews of Books Published January-June 1993/Number 2

Price: $12.50

Publisher: Horn Book : October 1993

Seller ID: 81661

ISBN-13: 9780876750438

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The New York Public Library's Books of the Century

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA : April 1996

Seller ID: 85240

ISBN-13: 9780195108972

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

What are the books that helped shape and define the last hundred years? This was the question put to the librarians of The New York Public Library as part of the Library's 100th anniversary celebration. Which books had influenced the course of events for good or ill? Which interpreted new worlds? Or delighted millions of readers? Their answers to these questions formed "Books of the Century," a highly popular exhibit during the Library's centennial celebration (1895 to 1995), highlighting an exhilarating collection of important works by some of the greatest writers of our times. Now, the compa...
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The Oxford Companion to the Book

Price: $172.50

Publisher: Oxford University Press : February 2010

Seller ID: 70405

ISBN-13: 9780198606536

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The Oxford Companion to the Book is the first reference work of its kind covering the broad concept of the book throughout the world from ancient to modern times. Along with such subjects as bibliography, the history of printing, editorial theory and practice, and textual criticism, it alsoengages with newer disciplines such as the history of the book and the electronic book. Additionally, the companion provides an engaging analysis of how books and societies have shaped one another. Written by the world's top scholars in bibliography and book history, the companion is anauthoritative and high...
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Degrees of Freedom: Early Novels of Iris Murdoch

By: A.S. Byatt

Price: $11.37

Publisher: Vintage : January 1994

Seller ID: 107060

ISBN-13: 9780099302247

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Legal scripts and newspaper quotes form this backbone of this account of New York City governor Franklin D. Roosevelt's investigation into the corrupt city government of the high-living Night Mayor of New York City, Jimmy Walker. The crackdown, the largest ever in US history, dethroned Walker, paved the way for Roosevelt's career as president after almost ruining his chances, and brought the roaring Jazz Age to an end.
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Interpretations of Life: A Survey of Contemporary Literature: The Lives and Opinions of Some Major Authors of Our Time

By: Ariel, Will and Durant

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Simon & Schuster : September 1970

Seller ID: 66364

ISBN-13: 9780671205690

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Craft of Bookbinding

By: BANISTER, MANLY

Price: $12.95

Publisher: Dover Pubns : March 1994

Seller ID: 109744

ISBN-13: 9780486278520

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

Most book lovers are familiar with the frustration of having a treasured book fall apart from age or use or both. Now the solution is at hand in this modestly priced, step-by-step guide to the craft of hand bookbinding. With this book, you'll learn how to restore not only ailing hardcovers, but paperbacks, periodicals, and other materials as well.Profusely illustrated with over 250 photos and drawings by the author, the clear, concise text gives details of book sewing of all types -- antique, flexible, outside cords, lockstitch, whipstitch, and more, as well as the modern practice of perfect b...
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Of Chastity and Power: Elizabethan Literature and the Unmarried Queen

By: Berry, Philippa

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Routledge : August 1995

Seller ID: 51495

ISBN-13: 9780415056724

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Elizabeth I was one of the most powerful women rulers in European history. What can feminism reveal about the attitudes of her male subjects towards this enigmatic figure?Through readings of key Elizabethan texts by Lyly, Ralegh, Chapman, Shakespeare, and Spenser, Philippa Berry shows that while Elizabeth's combination of chastity with political and religious power was repeatedly idealized, it was also perceived as extremely disturbing. The figure of the unmarried queen implicitly challenged the masculine focus of Renaissance discourses of love, philosophy and absolutist political ideology.In ...
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The Letters of John Calmann 1951-1980

By: Calmann, John

Price: $10.00

Publisher: John Murray Publishers Ltd : May 1986

Seller ID: 55091

ISBN-13: 9780719542916

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Beyond the Gray Flannel Suit: Books from the 1950s that Made American Culture

By: Castronovo, David

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic : September 2004

Seller ID: 185411

ISBN-13: 9780826416261

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

American writers of the 1920s, such as Hemingway and Fitzgerald, have been heralded as The Lost Generation, while an earlier generation formed The American Renaissance. Far less critical attention has been paid to mid-twentieth-century literature and how a super-charged body of writing changed our perceptions of the world. Beyond the Gray Flannel Suit considers the books of our lives, which shaped our times, whether we realize it or not. Where did youth culture come from? Why do people argue over pop and high culture? What part do race and ethnicity play in an author's work? By examining a car...
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Literary Coincidences; A Bookstall Bargain; and other Papers

By: Clouston, W.A.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Glasgow, Morison Brothers : 1892

Seller ID: 188177

ISBN: 281ALV1002777

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Bookbinding: The Classic Arts and Crafts Manual

By: Cockerell, Douglas

Price: $15.95

Publisher: Dover Publications : July 2005

Seller ID: 40971

ISBN-13: 9780486440392

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

One of the principal texts of the Arts and Crafts movement in England, this classic work brought a resurgence of life and vigor to the ancient craft of binding books by hand. Its fame and usefulness has endured for more than a century, as evidenced by the many contemporary bookbinders and libraries who consider it to be the clearest and most valuable exposition of the technique of hand bookbinding in English.The text concisely covering virtually every aspect of the craft -- from folding and collating pages, trimming and gilding edges, and cutting and attaching boards to preparing covers, mitri...
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The Buried Book: The Loss and Rediscovery of the Great Epic of Gilgamesh

By: Damrosch, David

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Henry Holt and Co. : March 2007

Seller ID: 128215

ISBN-13: 9780805080292

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Adventurers, explorers, kings, gods, and goddesses come to life in this riveting story of the first great epic--lost to the world for 2,000 years, and rediscovered in the nineteenth centuryComposed by a poet and priest in Middle Babylonia around 1200 bce, The Epic of Gilgamesh foreshadowed later stories that would become as fundamental as any in human history, The Odyssey and the Bible. But in 600 bce, the clay tablets that bore the story were lost--buried beneath ashes and ruins when the library of the wild king Ashurbanipal was sacked in a raid."The Buried Book" begins with the rediscovery o...
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Once Upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller

By: Darkshire, Oliver

Price: $27.95

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company : March 2023

Seller ID: 192273

ISBN-13: 9781324092070

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

A Voice from the Attic: Essays on the Art of Reading

By: Davies, Robertson

Price: $5.97

Publisher: Penguin Books : September 1990

Seller ID: 106881

ISBN-13: 9780140120813

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Great Short Books: A Year of Reading--Briefly

By: Davis, Kenneth C.

Price: $28.00

Publisher: Scribner : November 2022

Seller ID: 191224

ISBN-13: 9781982180034

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

In Praise of Good Bookstores

By: Deutsch, Jeff

Price: $19.95

Publisher: Princeton University Press : April 2022

Seller ID: 180697

ISBN-13: 9780691207766

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

Bookbinding: Its Background and Technique (Two Volumes Bound as One) (v. 1 & 2)

By: Diehl, Edith

Price: $24.95

Publisher: Dover Publications : October 1980

Seller ID: 29751

ISBN-13: 9780486240206

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

Edith Diehl (1876-1955) was one of the world's foremost practitioners of traditional bookbinding and an exceptionally able teacher. From the vantage point of a lifetime's experience, she gives today's bookbinders a historical survey of this centuries-old art and an eminently practical guide.Nearly one half of the encyclopedic volume is devoted to an overview of the historical development of bookbinding. The author shows how the codex form of the book became identified with the Christian era, how bookbinding became a craft and trade in the 15th century, and how the production and distribution o...
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