Booking in the Heartland (Johns Hopkins: Poetry and Fiction) - Hardcover

Matthews, Professor Jack

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9780801833328: Booking in the Heartland (Johns Hopkins: Poetry and Fiction)

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ISBN 10: 0801833329 ISBN 13: 9780801833328

Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986

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The author writes of his adventures bargain hunting and collecting books for emotional fulfillment and investment potential and discusses the camaraderie that can develop among collectors

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Matthews travels 30,000 miles a year in search of old books. When he writes of his book-hunting adventures and the treasures he finds, he is informative and entertaining. He introduces the reader to untraveled byways in collectingbarely literate letters and old diaries that reveal the beauty and harshness of frontier life, obscure biographies of pioneers in the Ohio Valleyand he details the joyous discoveries awaiting the lucky finder. In places the account is marred by excessive philosophizing, but generally this is a pleasant, readable book on the rewards of book-collecting.Joseph Rosenblum, English Dept., Univ. of North Carolina, Greensboro
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