University of Massachusetts Press, October 2003. Trade Paperback. Books and other texts have not always been read in the way that we read them today. The modern practice of reading--privately, silently, with the eyes alone--is only one way of reading, which for many centuries existed alongside other forms. In the..... More
Routledge, December 2001. Trade Paperback. The Book History Reader brings together a rich variety of writings examining different aspects of the history of books and print culture, much of which is otherwise inaccessible. It looks at the development of the book, the move from spoken word to written texts, the..... More
Holt Paperbacks, May 2007. Trade Paperback. As warm and stimulating as a library to which one returns again and again. --Chicago Tribune (Editor's Choice) While books contain insights into our selves and the world, it takes a conversation--between the author and the reader, or between two readers--to bring them fully..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, June 2004. Trade Paperback. He explores how libraries are built and how they are destroyed, from the decay of the great Alexandrian library to scroll burnings in ancient China to the destruction of Aztec books by the Spanish--and in our own time, the burning of..... More
Paul Dry Books, June 2009. Trade Paperback. Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?--Henry Ward Beecher The Book Shopper is a spirited and witty guide to the world of disheveled used bookstores and dusty basements where shelves sag under the burden of so many books. In the..... More
Easton Press, 1990. First Edition. Leather. Signed by the author on a tipped-in page. Gilt-decorative full leather binding. Raised bands. All edges gilt. Silk endpapers and ribbon marker. More
Random House, January 1974. Limited. Cloth. Octavo. Limited edition of 3200. First edition. Off white cloth covered boards with gold lettering along spine. Silver emblem on front. [57 pp.]. More
Dorset Press, March 1990. Hardcover. More
Penguin Group USA Inc, October 1997. Trade Paperback. At one magical instant in your early childhood, the page of a book--that string of confused, alien ciphers--shivered into meaning. Words spoke to you, gave up their secrets; at that moment, whole universes opened. You became, irrevocably, a reader. Noted essayist Alberto..... More
Yale University Press, April 2009. Paper Back. A celebration of reading, of libraries, and of the mysterious human desire to give order to the universe Inspired by the process of creating a library for his fifteenth-century home near the Loire, in France, Alberto Manguel, the acclaimed writer on books and..... More
Keith a Smith Books, January 1995. Trade Paperback. As is. Previous owner's stamp on the bottom edge of the print block. Inked out owner stamp on the front free endpaper. More
University of California Press, December 1996. Trade Paperback. The death of the book has been duly announced, and with it the end of brick-and-mortar libraries, traditional publishers, linear narrative, authorship, and disciplinarity, along with the emergence of a more equitable discursive order. These essays suggest that it won't be that..... More
Basic Books, May 2015. Hardcover. Libraries today are more important than ever. More than just book repositories, libraries can become bulwarks against some of the most crucial challenges of our age: unequal access to education, jobs, and information. In BiblioTech, educator and technology expert John Palfrey argues that anyone seeking..... More
University of Virginia Press, April 2003. Hardcover. On a December day in 1885, Bill Barnes, a journeyman from the New York World, and Joe McCann, representing the New York Herald, faced off in a match race of Swifts, compositors who set type by hand, individually, letter by letter, with incredible..... More
ECW Press, April 2017. Hardcover. An intimate narrative exploring the past, present, and future of books Four seismic shifts have rocked human communication: the invention of writing, the alphabet, mechanical type and the printing press, and digitization. Poised over this fourth transition, e-reader in one hand, perfect-bound book in the..... More
New York Review of Books, May 2015. Hardcover. Why do we need fiction? Why do books need to be printed on paper, copyrighted, read to the finish? Do we read to challenge our vision of the world or to confirm it? Has novel writing turned into a job like any..... More
Yale University Press, January 1991. Trade Paperback. Discussing a wide range of literary theory in a clear and accessible way, prize-winning author Robert Scholes here continues his ongoing construction of a humane semiotic approach to the problems of reading, writing, and teaching. Taking the view that "all the world's a...... More
Georgian Publishers. Soft Cover. Softcover with hand sewn spine. Minor shelf wear. More
Random House~trade, January 1966. Hardcover. Moderate shelf wear on the jacket. Price clipped. Edges and borders of the print block lightly tanned. More
Harpercollins, September 1998. Hardcover. The compilation of the OxfordEnglish Dictionary was one of the most ambitious and challenging language projects ever undertaken. As definitions were collected, the vast over-seeing committee, led by professor James Murray, discovered that more than 10,000 definitions had been submitted by one man, Dr. W. C...... More
Beacon Press, May 2005. Trade Paperback. Suzanne Shea has always loved a good book-and she's written five of them, all acclaimed. In the course of her ten-year career, she's done a good bit of touring, including readings and drop-ins at literally hundreds of bookstores. She never visited one that wasn't..... More
Verso, January 0001. First Edition. Hardcover. Part-memoir, part-history, "The Business of Books" is an irascible, acute and often passionate account of the collapsing standards of contemporary book publishing. It has appeared throughout the world in seventeen different editions. First/fiirst in dust jacket. Clean, sound, no markings. Appears unread... More
Fulcrum Publishing, October 1991. Trade Paperback. In this humorous confession Tom Raabe addresses the problems of book addiction and offers sympathy to fellow biblioholics. More
Chronicle Books (CA), April 1994. Oversize Softcover. The American paperback went through a brief but gloriously subversive era during the 1940s and '50s when publishers wooed post-World War II veterans with cheap, pocket-sized paperbacks sporting lurid covers and shocking titles. But this era also spawned such great writers as Mickey..... More
St. Martin's Griffin, September 2007. Trade Paperback. "Do we still know how to read a novel?" John Sutherland, Chairman of the 2005 Booker Prize Committee, asks. His answer is an unequivocal, "No." But Sutherland has not given up hope. With acerbic wit and intellect, he traces the history of what..... More
