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
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, September 2016. Hardcover. A spirited and revealing memoir by the most celebrated editor of his time After editing The Columbia Review, staging plays at Cambridge, and a stint in the greeting-card department of Macy's, Robert Gottlieb stumbled into a job at Simon and Schuster. By the..... 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
Georgian Publishers. Soft Cover. Softcover with hand sewn spine. Minor shelf wear. 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
Dorset Press, March 1990. Hardcover. More
Privately Printed, 1929. Limited. Hardcover. Edition limited to 950 copies. Blue boards with paper cover label in cloth backstrip, also with paper label. Wrapped in glassine, housed in box. Bookplate covering scars of previously removed bookplate; else, near fine condition. More
Simon & Schuster, October 2018. Hardcover. A REESE WITHERSPOON x HELLO SUNSHINE BOOK CLUB PICK A WASHINGTON POST TOP 10 BOOK OF THE YEAR * A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER and NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2018 "A constant pleasure to read...Everybody who loves books should check out The..... 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
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
Everthemore Books, December 2014. Trade Paperback. More
University of Chicago Press, August 2013. Trade Paperback. Andrew Piper grew up liking books and loving computers. While occasionally burying his nose in books, he was going to computer camp, programming his Radio Shack TRS-80, and playing Pong. His eventual love of reading made him a historian of the book..... 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
Voyageur Press, February 2018. Trade Paperback. Feed your inner bibliophile with this volume on unearthed rare and antiquarian books. Few collectors are as passionate or as dogged in the pursuit of their quarry as collectors of rare books. In Rare Books Uncovered, expert on rare and antiquarian books Rebecca Rego..... More
Owl Books (NY), June 1997. First Edition. Oversize Softcover. A scrapbook of artwork, humorous writing, and articles culled from the nation's zines--underground magazines produced by individuals and small publishers--includes off-the-wall tips on dating and reviews of grotesque products. Alternative publications called zinesmocked up in bedrooms, using typewriters and rubber cement..... 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Random House~trade, January 1966. Hardcover. Moderate shelf wear on the jacket. Price clipped. Edges and borders of the print block lightly tanned. More
