A Splendor of Letters: The Permanence of Books in an Impermanent World (Inscribed First Edition)
Language: English
Published by Harper Collins, New York, 2003
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Harper Collins, New York, 2003. First edition, as stated. First printing, with full number line to 1. Fine in a fine jacket. Quarter black cloth over brown paper-covered boards; spine lettered in gilt. Marbled endpapers. Inscribed by Nicholas A. Basbanes to a prior owner on the half-title page in Storrs, Connecticut. A tight, clean copy with publisher's original price ($29.95) intact on front jacket flap. 8vo. 444 pp. Includes preface, ten chapters, notes, bibliography, author's interviews, and index. Comes with archival-quality mylar dust jacket protector. Basbanes's fourth book, continuing his exploration of books, manuscripts, collecting, and literary culture, with particular emphasis on letters and the documentary record of writers' lives. Inscribed by Nicholas A. Basbanes to Charles William Anthes, longtime volunteer at the University of Connecticut's Homer Babbidge Library, in Storrs, Connecticut, a fitting association between two devoted participants in the world of books and libraries.…
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- Title
- A Splendor of Letters: The Permanence of Books in an Impermanent World (Inscribed First Edition)
- Author
- Basbanes, Nicholas A
- Publisher
- Harper Collins, New York
- Publication year
- 2003
- Condition
- Fine
- Dust jacket
- Fine
- Signed
- Inscribed by Author(s)
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0060082879
- ISBN 13
- 9780060082871
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Printing
- 1st Printing
In A Splendor of Letters, Nicholas A. Basbanes continues the lively, richly anecdotal exploration of book people, places, and culture he began in 1995 with A Gentle Madness (a finalist that year for the National Book Critics Circle Award) and expanded in 2001 with Patience & Fortitude, a companion work that prompted the two-time Pulitzer Prize–winning historian and biographer David McCullough to proclaim him "the leading authority of books about books."
Basbanes now offers a consideration of the many pressing issues that surround the role of books in contemporary society, such as the willful destruction of books and libraries in Sarajevo, Tibet, and Cambodia, and the spirited efforts to restore them. The matter of "discards" at various libraries takes on an entirely new dimension as well, with fully researched stories about the kind of attitudes that may lead to the loss of “last copies” of important works.
In vivid detail, Basbanes examines the many materials that have been used over the centuries to record information -- among them clay tablets, papyrus scrolls, slabs of stone, palm leaves, animal skins, and hammered sheets of gold and copper. Also discussed are the various debates that continue to rage about preservation, which may mean saving and storing books on paper indefinitely, or as electronic data, which are by nature ephemeral.
In this beautifully packaged edition, Nicholas Basbanes brings to a close his wonderful trilogy on the remarkable world of books and bibliophiles.
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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.
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