Titre et auteur:

Book talk : essays on books, book sellers, collecting, and special collections / edited by Robert H. Jackson and Carol Z. Rothkopf.

Publication:

New Castle, DE : Oak Knoll Press, 2006.

Description:

xvii, 265 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : what is the fellowship of American bibliophilic societies? / Lawrence N. Siegler -- past, present, and future of the book / Jason Epstein -- "Only copy known" : random reflections on rarity / Bruce Whiteman -- Books that everyone has forgotten : some preliminary notes on low spots in literature / Garrett Scott -- pre-socratic project and remarks on the philosophical side of fine printing / Peter Rutledge Koch -- woodcut in Ferrara in the late fifteenth century / Daniel De Simone -- Aurora Australis (1908), edited by Ernest H. Shackleton : a new description of the first state of the first book published on the Antarctic continent / Martin L. Greene -- messiah factor in bookselling / Tom Congalton -- American antiquarian book trade : yesterday, today, and tomorrow / John Crichton -- Adventures of a bookseller / Priscilla Juvelis -- Roxburghe to eBay : a brief survey of the way books change hands / Peter Kraus -- Some thoughts on the maturing of the rare book market / Ken Lopez -- My adventures in academe / Anthony Garnett -- Will the book collector of today be the donor of tomorrow? / Robert H. Jackson -- book collector builds a life / Arthur L. Schwarz -- future of book collecting / Paul T. Ruxin -- What can a librarian do? / Roger E. Stoddard -- embarrassment of riches : collecting trends in institutional special collections / Samuel Streit -- I didn't know you had that! -- resuscitating special collections / Geoffrey D. Smith.

ISBN:

1584561882
9781584561880

Sujet:

Book collecting.
Antiquarian booksellers.
Libraries Special collections Rare books.
Book Collecting
Bibliophilie.
Libraires du livre ancien.
Bibliothèques Fonds spéciaux Livres rares.

Vedettes secondaires:

Jackson, Robert H., 1936-
Rothkopf, Carol Zeman.

Exemplaires:

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 245485
Cote: BIB 175116
Statut: Disponible