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ISBN 10: 0812931122 ISBN 13: 9780812931129
Editorial: Times Books, 1999

Sinopsis

Two publishing industry veterans collect 60 classic and modern musings on the joys and perils of bibliomania. They include book care tips, resources, "The Ten Best-Selling Books Rejected by Publishers Twenty Times or More," cartoons, a bibliobibliography, and a foreword by Ray Bradbury who wrote of book-burning in Fahrenheit 451 . Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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<b>Harold Rabinowitz</b> is director of the book packaging firm The Reference Works and has served as executive editor of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology and science editor of the Encyclopedia Americana. He is the author of books on the history of aviation, on the Old West, and in Judaica. He lives with his family and library in Riverdale, New York. <br><br><b>Rob Kaplan</b> has held senior-level editorial positions with several major New York-based publishing houses and currently heads his own literary services firm, Rob Kaplan Associates. He lives with his family and more than four thousand books in Cortlandt Manor, N.Y.

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have a little money, I buy books. And if any is left, I buy food and clothing."<br>--Desiderius Erasmus<br><br>Those who share Erasmus's love of those curious bundles of paper bound together between hard or soft covers know exactly how he felt. These are the people who can spend hours browsing through a bookstore, completely oblivious not only to the passage of time but to everything else around them, the people for whom buying books is a necessity, not a luxury. <b>A Passion for Books</b> is a celebration of that love, a collection of sixty classic and contemporary essays, stories, lists, poems, quotations, and cartoons on the joys of reading, appreciating, and collecting books.<br><br>This enriching collection leads off with science-fiction great Ray Bradbury's Foreword, in which he remembers his penniless days pecking out Fahrenheit 451 on a rented typewriter, conjuring up a society so frightened of art that it burns its books. This struggle--financial and creative--led t

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Editorial
Times Books
Año de publicación
1999
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0812931122
ISBN 13 
9780812931129
Encuadernación
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Número de edición
1
Número de páginas
355
Editor
Rabinowitz Harold, Kaplan Rob
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