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Two publishing industry veterans collect 60 classic and modern musings on the joys and perils of bibliomania. They include book care tips, resources, "The Ten Best-Selling Books Rejected by Publishers Twenty Times or More," cartoons, a bibliobibliography, and a foreword by Ray Bradbury who wrote of book-burning in Fahrenheit 451 . Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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Harold Rabinowitz is director of the book packaging firm The Reference Works and has served as executive editor of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology and science editor of the Encyclopedia Americana. He is the author of books on the history of aviation, on the Old West, and in Judaica. He lives with his family and library in Riverdale, New York.
Rob Kaplan has held senior-level editorial positions with several major New York-based publishing houses and currently heads his own literary services firm, Rob Kaplan Associates. He lives with his family and more than four thousand books in Cortlandt Manor, N.Y.
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Rob Kaplan has held senior-level editorial positions with several major New York-based publishing houses and currently heads his own literary services firm, Rob Kaplan Associates. He lives with his family and more than four thousand books in Cortlandt Manor, N.Y.
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- PublisherTimes Books
- Publication date1999
- ISBN 10 0812931122
- ISBN 13 9780812931129
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages355
- EditorRabinowitz Harold, Kaplan Rob
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