Author: Bauman Rare BooksPublisher:
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Languages : en
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Book Dealer's Catalogs Issued by Bauman Rare Books
Author: Bauman Rare BooksBookseller Catalogs of Bauman Rare Books
Author: Bauman Rare BooksPublisher:
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Category : Americana
Languages : en
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Book Dealer's Catalogs Issued by Trebizond Rare Books
Author: Trebizond Rare BooksBook Dealer's Catalogs Issued by Marlborough Rare Books
Author: Marlborough Rare BooksBook Dealer's Catalogs Issued by Amanda Hall Rare Books
Author: Amanda Hall Rare BooksPrinter's Error
Author: J. P. RomneyPublisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062412337
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
A funny and entertaining history of printed books as told through absurd moments in the lives of authors and printers, collected by television’s favorite rare-book expert from HISTORY’s hit series Pawn Stars. Since the Gutenberg Bible first went on sale in 1455, printing has been viewed as one of the highest achievements of human innovation. But the march of progress hasn’t been smooth; downright bizarre is more like it. Printer’s Error chronicles some of the strangest and most humorous episodes in the history of Western printing, and makes clear that we’ve succeeded despite ourselves. Rare-book expert Rebecca Romney and author J. P. Romney take us from monasteries and museums to auction houses and libraries to introduce curious episodes in the history of print that have had a profound impact on our world. Take, for example, the Gutenberg Bible. While the book is regarded as the first printed work in the Western world, Gutenberg’s name doesn’t appear anywhere on it. Today, Johannes Gutenberg is recognized as the father of Western printing. But for the first few hundred years after the invention of the printing press, no one knew who printed the first book. This long-standing mystery took researchers down a labyrinth of ancient archives and libraries, and unearthed surprising details, such as the fact that Gutenberg’s financier sued him, repossessed his printing equipment, and started his own printing business afterward. Eventually the first printed book was tracked to the library of Cardinal Mazarin in France, and Gutenberg’s forty-two-line Bible was finally credited to him, thus ensuring Gutenberg’s name would be remembered by middle-school students worldwide. Like the works of Sarah Vowell, John Hodgman, and Ken Jennings, Printer’s Error is a rollicking ride through the annals of time and the printed word.
Book Dealer's Catalogs Issued by William Wyer Rare Books
Author: William Wyer Rare BooksShakespeare and Company
Author: Sylvia BeachPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803260979
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Sylvia Beach was intimately acquainted with the expatriate and visiting writers of the Lost Generation, a label that she never accepted. Like moths of great promise, they were drawn to her well-lighted bookstore and warm hearth on the Left Bank. Shakespeare and Company evokes the zeitgeist of an era through its revealing glimpses of James Joyce, Ernest Hemingway, Scott Fitzgerald, Sherwood Anderson, Andre Gide, Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, Alice B. Toklas, D. H. Lawrence, and others already famous or soon to be. In his introduction to this new edition, James Laughlin recalls his friendship with Sylvia Beach. Like her bookstore, his publishing house, New Directions, is considered a cultural touchstone.
Book Dealer's Catalogs Issued by Roger Gaskell Rare Books
Author: Roger Gaskell Rare Books (Firm)Publisher:
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The Crock of Gold
Author: James StephensPublisher: The Floating Press
ISBN: 1775459608
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
Pass a pleasant afternoon with this delightful collection of short stories. Simple but not simplistic, these diverting tales are rendered in exquisitely rich and often playful language that will have you lingering over sentences and highlighting your favorite passages so you can revisit them again and again. The Crock of Gold is the perfect blend of literary virtuosity and lighthearted fun.