Editions & Impressions Twenty Years on the Book Beat
Basbanes, Nicholas A.
Place Published: Durham:
Publisher: Fine Books Press,
Date Published: 2008.
Description: 8vo - over 7" - 9" tall. FIRST EDITION, STATED 1ST PRINTING. 250 pages with index. The book is in FINE condition. The jacket is in FINE condition. NOT price-clipped. NOT remaindered. JMVINTAGE specializes in Books, Magazines and Treasures related to the Duke and Duchess of Windsor and..other curious subjects. The dust jacket reads: "Decades before he began writing A Gentle Madness and the other volumes in his acclaimed series on book collecting, libraries, and reading, Nicholas Basbanes got his start as a journalist. His experience as an investigative reporter, literary editor, and columnist makes Basbanes unique among the many chroniclers of book culture, creating a body of work that led two-time Pulitzer prize-winning historian and biographer David McCullough to call him 'the leading authority on books about books.' Editions and Impressions: Twenty Years on the Book Beat brings together the best of Basbanes's book journalism. He reports first-hand on a nascent library springing up on the battlefield in Iraq. He describes putting hundreds of thousands of dollars on the line at a New York auction on behalf of a friend and placing bids that, in some instances, exceeded his annual salary. In Sweden, he writes about a seventeenth-century palace library left unfinished when builders walked off the job three centuries ago. He recalls meeting with one of the most prolific book thieves of the twentieth century and considers instances of the tragic destruction of books and libraries. Basbanes often says that he is a collector of collectors, and this book brims with profiles of fascinating rare-book aficionados, from the extremely wealthy who can buy almost anything they want to collectors who have built marvelous and important collections on limited budgets. Most of these pieces are significantly revised and expanded from their original appearances in print, and throughout the book, Basbanes has added notes to bring the stories up-to-date. These essays, collected from two-decades worth of magazine and newspaper appearances, establish Basbanes as one of the leading book journalists of our time. "
Edition: First printingBinding: Hard Cover
Condition: Fine in Fine dj
ISBN: 0979949106
Book Id: 17507
Price: $28.50
