A passion for books
Subtitle: a book lover's treasury of stories, essays, humor, lore, and lists on collecting, reading, borrowing, lending, caring for, and appreciating books
By: edited by Harold Rabinowitz and Rob Kaplan ; with a foreword by Ray Bradbury
Contributors: Rabinowitz, Harold, 1948-; Kaplan, Rob
Edition: 1st paperback ed
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 355
Subjects: Books and reading; Books and reading -- Literary collections
Genres: Literary collections
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 343-349)
Table of contents: title: Introduction: a passion for books; title: In a second-hand bookshop / Christopher Morley; title: Unpacking my library / Walter Benjamin; title: The ritual / Rob Kaplan; title: How to get started in the book business / Stuart Brent; title: "Look who's been remaindered now"; title: Ten best-selling books rejected by publishers twenty or more times; title: Lending books / Anatole Broyard; title: On the return of a book lent to a friend / Christopher Morley; title: Welcome home borrowed book; title: How to justify a private library / Umberto Eco; title: How to organize a public library / Umberto Eco; title: Samuel Pepys's library / Nicholas Basbanes; title: Pillow books / Clifton Fadiman; title: The new lifetime reading plan / John S. Major; Clifton Fadiman; title: Comfort found in good old books / George Hamlin Fitch; title: The collector / Susan Sontag; title: Bibliomania / Gustave Flaubert; title: "All the Friedrich Nietzsche you'll ever need"; title: Bibliomania / Roger Rosenblatt; title: The book action / Solly Ganor; title: From Areopagitica / John Milton; title: Books unread / Thomas Wentworth Higginson; title: Ten books that shaped the American character / Jonathan Yardley; title: Books that changed America / Robert B. Downs; title: The commerce of reading / Michel de Montaigne; title: Book collecting / Robertson Davies; title: "Holy cow!"; title: Bibliomaniacs / John Michell; title: They don't call it a mania for nothing / Harold Rabinowitz; title: Bibliolexicon; title: What is the matter with a bookshop? / A Edward Newton; title: "Non-books"; title: Ten memorable books that never existed; title: The last of his race / A. Edward Newton; title: The perfect book / William Keddie; title: Books are the windows of the soul / Henry Ward Beecher; title: How reading changed my life / Anna Quindlen; title: Three by Quindlen; title: Talking of old books / A.S.W. Rosenbach; title: Potch / Leo Rosten; title: "Damn! Wait your turn!"; title: A good time to start a book club / Al Silverman; title: Invasion of the book envelopes / John Updike; title: "And to some people we might not sell it at any price"; title: My friends / Petrarch; title: Norman Mailer's ten favorite American novels; title: W. Somerset Maugham's ten greatest novels; title: The Bible through the ages / Ben D. Zevin; title: Aldus Manutius / William Dana Orcutt; title: Benjamin Franklin's epitaph; title: The collector / William Targ; title: The Newark Public Library / Philip Roth; title: Why does nobody collect me? / Robert Benchley; title: How not to care for books / Holbrook Jackson; title: On reading and collecting / Herbert Faulkner West; title: Fifteen books we would memorize if we were the "living books" characters in Ray Bradbury's novel Fahrenheit 451; title: "I just like to be in their presence occasionally"; title: The "100" game: 100 greatest novels in the English language / A. Edward Newton; title: Top 100 English-language novels of the twentieth century; title: 91 Chambers Street / Edward Robb Ellis; title: Bibliobibliography; title: books about books: a selection