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This book features a selection of essays from the early days of the book to current times when some claim the book could become an endangered species. Each writer relates a lifelong relationship with the book as a friend, source of inspiration, educational tool, an object to collect or give as a gift, or as a philosophical ally in one's darkest days. Among the writers included: Colette, Franklin, Petrarch, Poe, Lamb, Douglass, Thoreau, Hazlitt, Fuller, Gissing, Eliot, as well as contemporary authors. Printed on 80 lb. Cream White Mohawk Vellum in 12 Bookman type, with a letterpress cover printed on an antique press.
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The Romance of the Book
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Birch Brook Press, Delhi, NY, 1995
ISBN 10: 0913559326
ISBN 13: 9780913559321
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Seller: BISON BOOKS - ABAC/ILAB, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
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Hardcover. Limited edition. pp. 189. 8vo. Bound in grey cloth with pictorial front board, gilt and red lettering. Ex-library; rubber stamps to ffep and foredge, no other lib. markings; very good-. This copy of The Romance of the Book is number 127 in an edition limited to 150 and is signed by the editor. Signed. Seller Inventory # 076289
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The Romance of the Book
Published by
Birch Brook Press, Delhi NY, 1995
ISBN 10: 0913559326
ISBN 13: 9780913559321
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Signed
Seller: Row By Row Bookshop, Sugar Grove, NC, U.S.A.
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Signed. Hardcover. A Very Good or better copy in pictorial gray hard covers. There is a one inch strip of sun-fading along the top edge of the rear cover, else about as new. No dust jacket, apparently as issued. Number 113 of 150 copies signed by the editor in this limited edition. Signed by Author(s). Book. Seller Inventory # 062685