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a roving chronicle of book people, book places, and book culture

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An edition of Patience and Fortitude (2001)

Patience & fortitude

a roving chronicle of book people, book places, and book culture

1st ed.

by

  • ★★★★ 4.00 ·
  • 1 Rating
  • 8 Want to read
  • 0 Currently reading
  • 1 Have read

In "Patience and Fortitude," Nicholas Basbanes takes us through his discoveries of some of the greatest libraries of the world--from Alexandria to Glastonbury--and then on to the Vatican,Wolfenbüttel, and erudite universities.

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HarperCollins
Language
English
Pages
636

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Subjects
Book collecting, Books, Books and reading, History, Libraries, Boekwezen, Boeken, Books, history, Libraries, history, Books and reading, history

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Cover of: Patience and Fortitude
Patience and Fortitude: Wherein a Colorful Cast of Determined Book Collectors, Dealers, and Librarians Go About the Quixotic Task of Preserving a Legacy
March 25, 2003, Harper Perennial
Paperback in English
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Cover of: Patience & fortitude
Patience & fortitude: wherein a colorful cast of determined book collectors, dealers, and librarians go about the quixotic task of preserving legacy
2003, Perennial
in English - 1st Perennial ed.
Libraries near you: WorldCat
Cover of: Patience and Fortitude
Patience and Fortitude: Wherein a Colorful Cast of Determined Book Collectors, Dealers, and Librarians Go About the Quixotic Task of Preserving a Legacy
March 25, 2003, Harper Perennial
in English
Libraries near you: WorldCat
Cover of: Patience & fortitude
Patience & fortitude: a roving chronicle of book people, book places, and book culture
2001, HarperCollins
in English - 1st ed.
Libraries near you: WorldCat

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Table of Contents

Machine generated contents note: PART ONE: OVERTURE 1. Eternal Life
2. Godspeed
PART TWO: BOOK PEOPLE
3. Madness Redux
4. Splendid Anachronisms
5. Profiles in Bibliophagia
6. Hunters and Gatherers
7. Many Years PART THREE: BO0K PLACES
8. The People's Palace
9. Once and Future Library
10. In the Stacks
l1. Deep Slee
12. As in a Vial oC.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 590-602) and index.

Other Titles
Patience and fortitude

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
002/.09
Library of Congress
Z4 .B395 2001, Z4.B395 2001

The Physical Object

Pagination
xviii, 636 p. :
Number of pages
636

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Open Library
OL3940659M
Internet Archive
patiencefortitud00basb
ISBN 10
0060196955
LCCN
2001016935
Library Thing
22132
Goodreads
883317

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