Author: BASCOVE
Title: Where Books Fall Open. A Readers Anthology of Wit and Passion
Description: David R. Godine Publisher, 2003. Hardcover. Pp: 149. This is a book about books, about the pleasures, passions, and rewards of reading, about authors dedicated to writing and readers who delight in words in the right order. It contains a rich selection devoted to this seductive subject, from Calvino's meditation on selecting a title in a bookstore to Woolf's essays on the joys of "the common reader," from Schwartz's "Ruined by Reading" to Eco's "How to Organize a Public Library." The book is illuminated by sixteen full-color paintings by Bascove, who here serves as editor, illustrator, and primum mobile. Produced to the highest standards, it is not only a gift for the literary, but also an inducement to the diffident. ISBN: 9781567921861. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.
Keywords: 9781567921861
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Title: Where Books Fall Open. A Readers Anthology of Wit and Passion
Description: David R. Godine Publisher, 2003. Hardcover. Pp: 149. This is a book about books, about the pleasures, passions, and rewards of reading, about authors dedicated to writing and readers who delight in words in the right order. It contains a rich selection devoted to this seductive subject, from Calvino's meditation on selecting a title in a bookstore to Woolf's essays on the joys of "the common reader," from Schwartz's "Ruined by Reading" to Eco's "How to Organize a Public Library." The book is illuminated by sixteen full-color paintings by Bascove, who here serves as editor, illustrator, and primum mobile. Produced to the highest standards, it is not only a gift for the literary, but also an inducement to the diffident. ISBN: 9781567921861. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.
Keywords: 9781567921861
Price: EUR 10.00 = appr. US$ 10.87 Seller: De Slegte
- Book number: 2174069
- Book number: 2174069
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