Speaking of Books
Subtitle: The Best Things Ever Said About Books and Book Collecting
Publisher: Crown
Published: July 17, 2001
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780609608524
First sentence: ALL THE GLORY OF THE WORLD would be buried in oblivion," wrote Richard de Bury in Philobiblon, "unless God had provided mortals with the remedy of books."
Table of contents: title: Introduction : Books in our future; title: In praise of books; title: The pleasures of buying and owning books; title: What to read; title: The influence of books; title: Bibliomania; title: The pleasures of reading; title: What books do and don't do for us; title: All those books; title: How to read; title: Libraries; title: Good books and bad; title: The comfort found in books; title: Lending and borrowing books; title: Books and the young; title: What books can and cannot teach us; title: Authors and their readers; title: Collectors and collecting; title: The book trade; title: The enemies of books; title: Books forever!; title: About the editors