Speaking of Books - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0609608525 ISBN 13: 9780609608524

Publisher: Crown Publications, 2001

Synopsis

Collects quotations and expressions about books, libraries, reading, and book collecting.

About this title

About the Author:

Rob Kaplan served in senior-level editorial positions with several major New York-based publishing houses before starting his own literary services firm, Rob Kaplan Associates. Among his previous books are A Passion for Books, which he coedited with Harold Rabinowitz, and Science Says. He lives with his family in Cortlandt Manor, New York.

Harold Rabinowitz has been director of the Reference Works, a New York book packaging firm, since 1994. He has also been executive editor of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology and science editor of the Encyclopedia Americana. In addition to serving as coeditor of A Passion for Books, he is the author of many books on subjects as diverse as aviation, the Old West, and Jewish folklore. He and his family live in Riverdale,

From the Inside Flap:

eally knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours."
-- J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye (1951)

"I would rather be a poor man in a garret with plenty of books than a king who did not love reading." -- Thomas B. Macaulay, Life (1876)

The love of books, and the desire to speak and write of that love, are as old as books themselves. In fact, they are even older than printed books. "All the glory of the world would be buried in oblivion, unless God had provided mortals with the remedy of books," wrote Richard de Bury in The Philobiblon (The Love of Books), which was completed in 1345, more than a hundred years before Gutenberg printed his first Bible.

And in every generation since de Bury's there have been new voices expressing the pleasures they take in books and reading. Speaking of Books contains hundreds of the bes

About this edition

• Publisher: Crown Publications
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0609608525
• ISBN 13: 9780609608524
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 276
• Editor: Kaplan Rob, Rabinowitz Harold