Edited by Steven Gilbar (6 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. near fine. First edition, as stated. 5 x 8 in. Cloth and paper boards. Condition is FINE ; like brand new on all points. DJ is NEAR FINE ; not price-clipped, no wear. Writing. Stax.

First edition Fine and bright stiff wraps with strong spine and clean text throughout. Neat owner's name to the opening flyleaf which bothers none of the text. Attractive.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st. 224 pages, illustrations; 22 cm. SIGNED by the authors Steven Gilbar and Diane Johnson. Numbered "7"/100 hardcover copies on the limitation page. A fine copy. Fine DJ. Size: 8vo. SIGNED.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. First edition, 1995. Signed by David Godine, publisher, on endpaper, inscribed for the bookseller. 152pp. w/Contributors Notes & Bibliography. Bright, clean & tight copy, unread, in Fine condition. "The essays in this collection are not so much about books as about reading--the act itself, its glories, its sensuousness, its hazards. Most of the pieces speak of the writers' personal experiences as readers: portraits of the authors as young readers, what to read in bed, the delights of rereading. Some are more pontifical, instructing the reader on what and how to read. What they all have in common, I hope, is that they are themselves good reading."--Steven Gilbar. "And what treasures are here: Vladimir Nabokov on "Good Readers and Good Writers," Harold Brodkey on "Reading, the Most Dangerous Game," Italo Calvino speaking on "Why Read the Classics," William Hazlitt "On Reading Old Books," and Marcel Proust on reading Ruskin. In all, there are twenty-two separate essays, spanning five centuries and featuring writers as diverse as Henry David Thoreau and Robertson Davies, John Ruskin and John Fowles, Hermann Hesse and Stanley Elkin." [jacket copy] Pristine hardcover w/sharp corners & crisp edges, a square & tight binding, wrapped in a bright-as-new jacket.…

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 1st Softcover Edition: 2006. 227 pp. A great, almost spotlessly clean copy! Solidly and tightly bound, essentially and nearly flawless copy with minimal internal and external wear and use. Copy with crisp pages, spotlessly clean text, and light shelf wear. Smooth covers. …