Patience and Fortitude : A Roving Chronicle of Book People, Book Places and Book Culture.
Basbanes, Nicholas A.
Place Published: New York, NY, U.S.A.:
Publisher: Harper Collins,
Date Published: 2001.
Description: STATED FIRST EDITION. First Printing (10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1). 636 pages with index plus 32 pages black and white photos. This book and dust jacket are in FINE/AS NEW (unread) condition. NOT price-clipped. NOT remaindered. Book comes with BRODART archival jacket cover. Dust jacket reads: "In 1995 Nicholas Basbanes introduced a resonant phrase to describe the obsessive passion people have had over the past twenty-five hundred years to possess books, a condition more commonly known as bibliomania, one he christened in his book A Gentle Madness. Reviewing the work in the Washington Post, Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Michael Dirda judged it to be a gallery of wonderful characters, "each more appealing than the last." Now, in Patience & Fortitude, Basbanes continues his discursive adventures among the gently mad, expanding his focus to probe the more comprehensive concept of book culture, Visiting many key "book places" around the world, he talks with a striking variety of kindred spirits, each one a living testament to the unending elevance of these essential artifacts in our lives, Drawing its tide from the unofficial names of the marble lions that guard the New York Public Library on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, Patience & Fortitude explores the changing form of the book over the centuries and describes the nature of the institution's that have evolved to contain them, including academic, public, private, and national repositories. Using the same narrative technique that made A Gentle Madness a national bestseller, Basbanes employs a lively balance of scholarly research with investigative journalism to document many pertinent book stories that have not been told before, and offers unprecedented depth to others that have barely scratched the surface. Picking up seamlessly where its predecessor left off, Patience & Fortitude profiles the experiences and thoughts of all kinds of dedicated "book people," be they librarians, readers, writers, bookmakers, booksellers, preservationists, or collectors.
Edition: First editionBinding: Hard Cover
Condition: Very Fine/As New in Very Fine/As New dj
ISBN: 0060196955
Book Id: 13845
Price: $55.50
