Patience & Fortitude: A Roving Chronicle of Book People, Book Places, and Book Culture

Basbanes, Nicholas A.

ISBN 10: 0060196955 / ISBN 13: 9780060196950

Published by HarperCollins, 2001

About this Item

1st printing. Signed by Basbanes on title page. Crisp and clean in quarter cloth binding. 636pp. Unclipped jacket is lightly rubbed at tips and in a protective mylar cover. Size: 8vo - 8" - 9" Tall.

Seller Inventory # 074995

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Patience & Fortitude: A Roving Chronicle of Book People, Book Places, and Book Culture
• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0060196955
• ISBN 13: 9780060196950
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Signed: Signed
• Seller catalogs:
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Synopsis

The author explores the history and continuing relavance of books, introducing readers to librarians, readers, writers, scholars, bookbinders and booksellers around the world. 40,000 first printing.

About the Author

Nicholas A. Basbanes has worked as an award-winning investigative reporter, a literary editor, and a nationally syndicated columnist. The author of five books, he also writes a regular column for Fine Books & Collections magazine and lectures widely on book-related issues. He and his wife, Constance, live in Massachusetts.