Patience & fortitude
Subtitle: a roving chronicle of book people, book places, and book culture
By: Nicholas A. Basbanes.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 636
Subjects: Books -- History; Books and reading -- History; Book collecting -- History; Libraries -- History
Other titles: Patience and fortitude
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 590-602) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: PART ONE: OVERTURE 1. Eternal Life; title: 2. Godspeed; title: PART TWO: BOOK PEOPLE; title: 3. Madness Redux; title: 4. Splendid Anachronisms; title: 5. Profiles in Bibliophagia; title: 6. Hunters and Gatherers; title: 7. Many Years PART THREE: BO0K PLACES; title: 8. The People's Palace; title: 9. Once and Future Library; title: 10. In the Stacks; title: l1. Deep Slee; title: 12. As in a Vial oC.