Magic and Madness in the Library: Protagonists Among the Stacks

Eric Graeber, Editor

ISBN 10: 0913559369 / ISBN 13: 9780913559369

Published by Birch Brook Press, 1999

About this Item

First Edition. Pictorial Stiff Wraps, Paperback. A FINE, like-new, bright, clean, tight copy sans flaws. "This anthology will take a different approach to the image of the library, focusing on the variety and range of reactions to libraries filtered through the imagination of the fiction writer over he centuries." Book enhanced with the black and white woodcarving illustrations of Frank C. Eckmair. 155 pages. GB12.

Seller Inventory # 020125

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Magic and Madness in the Library: Protagonists Among the Stacks
• Publisher: Birch Brook Press
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0913559369
• ISBN 13: 9780913559369
• Binding: Pictorial Softcover. Paperback
• Illustrator: Frank C. Eckmair
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket, as Issued

About this title

Synopsis

Classic fiction and "finds" on real and imagined libraries through the minds of Cervantes, Voltaire, Borges, Woolf, Bradbury, King, Eco, Irving, Huxley and more.

About the Author

former head librarian of the General Society Library in New York City.