201pp. First Edition with '1' present in number line. Shiny boards with background of colorful stack of books (detail) with title lettering superimposed in brilliant gilt across middle front cover and on spine. Profusely illustrated with color photos of Contributors' personal libraries, accompanied by personal accounts of their collections and collecting. Lower right front cover corner bumped from fore-edge, causing 1/4" on the diagonal indent, with minor wrinkles to turquoise veneer for 1/4" away from bottom right corner impact point (corner is still essentially square); teeny white chip to surface at gutter bottom edge and small chip nearby, right at the bottom right corner rear cover (virtually undetectable from head-on look at bottom spine): describes much worse than it is, but there you have it, else As New. No previous owner names.

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Title: Unpacking My Library: Writers and Their Books
Publisher: Yale University Press, New Haven and London
Publication Date: 2011
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0300170920
ISBN 13: 9780300170924
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Edition
Printing: 1st Printing
Condition: Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket

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This gorgeous second volume in the popular Unpacking My Library series explores the bookshelves of favorite novelists

As words and stories are increasingly disseminated through digital means, the significance of the book as object—whether pristine collectible or battered relic—is growing as well. Unpacking My Library: Writers and Their Books spotlights the personal libraries of thirteen favorite novelists who share their collections with readers. Stunning photographs provide full views of the libraries and close-ups of individual volumes: first editions, worn textbooks, pristine hardcovers, and childhood companions.

In her introduction, Leah Price muses on the history and future of the bookshelf, asking what books can tell us about their owners and what readers can tell us about their collections. Supplementing the photographs are Price's interviews with each author, which probe the relation of writing to reading, collecting, and arranging books. Each writer provides a list of top ten favorite titles, offering unique personal histories along with suggestions for every bibliophile.

Unpacking My Library: Writers and Their Books features the personal libraries of Alison Bechdel, Stephen Carter, Junot D�az, Rebecca Goldstein and Steven Pinker, Lev Grossman and Sophie Gee, Jonathan Lethem, Claire Messud and James Wood, Philip Pullman, Gary Shteyngart, and Edmund White.

About the Author

Leah Price is professor of English at Harvard University. She is the author of The Anthology and the Rise of the Novel, Literary Secretaries/Secretarial Culture, and How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain. She writes on old and new media for the New York Times Book Review, the London Review of Books, and the Boston Globe.

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Retired academic's reference library with specialization in philosophy, religion, science, and mathematics--all scholarly subject areas; Pre-Socratics to contemporary; biographies; some series collections. General stock also, including fiction, poetry, literary criticism, mysteries, some foreign language, children's, history, sociology, psychology, education. Some signed copies.

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