Editions and Impressions: Twenty Years on the Book Beat

Basbanes, Nicholas A.

ISBN 10: 0979949106 / ISBN 13: 9780979949104

Published by Fine Books Press, Durham, NC, 2007

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Hardcover. First Edition. 209pp. Very good hardback in a very good dustjacket.

Seller Inventory # 67526

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Editions and Impressions: Twenty Years on the Book Beat
• Publisher: Fine Books Press, Durham, NC
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0979949106
• ISBN 13: 9780979949104
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Books About Books

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Synopsis

Nicholas A. Basbanes, called "the leading authority on books about books" by Pulitzer Prize-winner David McCullough, has explored Western book culture as a journalist for twenty years. Editions and Collections brings together for the first time in book form more than thirty of his essays exploring the world of the book. Basbanes travels to Iraq and reports on a nascent library started by U.S. soldiers. He attends a high-stakes auction on behalf of a friend and places bids that exceed his annual salary, and he offers insightful profiles of collectors, librarians, authors, and scholars. This is Basbanes at his best.

About the Author

Nicholas Basbanes was literary editor of the Worcester Sunday Telegram from 1978 to 1991, and for eight years after wrote a nationally syndicated column on books and authors. His first book, A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion for Books (Henry Holt), now in its sixteenth printing, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in nonfiction for 1995 and was named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. He is author of five other books and innumerable columns centered on the world of books. He and his wife, Constance, reside in North Grafton, Massachusetts.