255 pp. : illustrated with more than 100 color photographs ; 27 cm. ; Chinese text with English titles ; ISBN: 9573253534 ; OCLC: 58593215 ; colorful, stiff paper wrappers ; Chinese-British bibliophile Zhong Fang-Ling discovers a Book Paradise in th e many and varied bookshops and book people in the United States, and leads the reader on a tour of book auctions, makers of library goods, book exhibitions and bookstores, new and antiquarian, electronic and ancient, as well as music shops ; featured are John Warnock of Octavo, shops The Magazine, Serendipity, Vintage Magazine Company, Gallagher Paper Collectibles, Crinkley Bottom Books, Caedmon Records, Village Music, Allan Milkerit, Facsimile Dust Jackets, International Edible Book Festival , Beatrice Coron, Helen Highwater, Melisa Jay Craig, David Mendez, Susan Hanes, Putnam Rolling Ladder Company, The Library of Congress, A. Edward Newton, Samuel Johnson, Helene Hanff and Charing Cross Road Books, Zwemmer, Marks & Co., Candelier, W H Smith, Nice Price Books, The Book Cellar (North Carolina), Pageant, Books & Co., Books of Wonder, Shakespeare & Co., Book Sense, the California Antiquarian Booksellers Fair, Bolerium Books' John Durham and Mike Pincus, Bibliomania, the Boston Book Fair, John Dunning, Nicholas Basbanes, Christie's, Sotheby's, Pacific Book Auction Galleries and George Fox, Swann Galleries, Bloomsbury Book Auctions, The Pierpont Morgan Library, Randall House Rare Books and David Randall, John Howell Books, Ojai California's Krishnamurti Library, Bart's Books and Richard Bartindale, Lost Horizon Books and Jerry Jacobs, Gold Cities Book Town in Nevada City, Brigadoon Books and Gary Stollery, Mountain House Books and Phyllis Butz, Gary Snyder, Toad Hall Book Shop ; there is also an interesting diversion in the examination of bookstores that have appeared on film; an important addition to Books on Books materials, sure to be a classic reference ; VG.

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??? = Book Paradise. [High Tech & Rare Books; The Beauty of Vintage Magazines; The Joy of Book Collecting; Spoken Word & Vintage Record; Cover Story; My Bookshelves; Love of Libraries; Charm of Book People; Auctions; Bookstoes on Film; etc]

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???:?????? [Taibei Shi : Yuan Liu chu ban gong si], 2004.

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2004

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Hardcover

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1st Edition

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Very Good

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