Essays Of A Book Collector

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Genre : Antiques & Collectibles
Author : Claude Annett Prance
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Release : 1989
File : 232 Pages
ISBN-13 : UOM:39015021986487


The Collector Essays On Books Newspapers C

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Author : Henry Theodore Tuckerman
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Release : 1868
File : 384 Pages
ISBN-13 : OXFORD:600070388


Modern Book Collecting

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Modern Book Collecting offers advice that answers all the basic questions a book lover and collector might have—what to collect and where to find it, how to tell a first edition from a reprint, how to build an author collection, how to get the best price from dealers, how to understand the prices and rarity of books, and more. With a handy dictionary of terms used in auction and dealer catalogs and a new section on Internet resources, this is a must-have guide for book lovers.

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Genre : Antiques & Collectibles
Author : Robert A. Wilson
Publisher : Skyhorse
Release : 2010-11-01
File : 309 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781628732429


A Reference Guide For English Studies

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This text is an introduction to the full range of standard reference tools in all branches of English studies. More than 10,000 titles are included. The Reference Guide covers all the areas traditionally defined as English studies and all the field of inquiry more recently associated with English studies. British and Irish, American and world literatures written in English are included. Other fields covered are folklore, film, literary theory, general and comparative literature, language and linguistics, rhetoric and composition, bibliography and textual criticism and women's studies.

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Genre : Literary Criticism
Author : Michael J. Marcuse
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Release : 1990-01-01
File : 868 Pages
ISBN-13 : 0520079922


Essays Books 1 2

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Genre : Ethics
Author : Aristotle
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Release : 1866
File : 462 Pages
ISBN-13 : HARVARD:HX5MGD


Taste Technique In Book Collecting

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Genre : Book collecting
Author : John Carter
Publisher : CUP Archive
Release : 1948
File : 224 Pages
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Taste And Technique In Book Collecting

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Originally published in 1948, this book contains the text of the Sandars Lectures in Bibliography for the previous year. Carter reflects upon the evolution and method of book collecting from the middle of the nineteenth century until the 1940s, and meditates on what it means to be a book collector, the changing definition of that term, and recent developments in collecting styles. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in bibliophilism or the history of book collecting.

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Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
Author : John Carter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Release : 2014-10-23
File : 215 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781107438149


Gifts And Exchanges

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This important book explores the many questions challenging librarians who work with gifts and exchanges (G&E) as part of their daily responsibilities. Too often, because of shrinking library budgets, library gifts are considered burdensome and unprofitable drains on both financial and personnel resources. However, Gifts and Exchanges: Problems, Frustrations, . . . and Triumphs gives you solutions that will allow you to embrace your library’s gifts as rewards. In this book, you will discover the latest ways of disposing unwanted materials, planning and holding book sales and auctions, and operating a full-time bookstore with Friends of the Library. Gifts and Exchanges covers the many questions that are currently challenging librarians who work with gifts and exchanges--the problems, such as limited space and an understaffed team, frustrations, and triumphs that make up your daily routine in book donations. The many chapters in Gifts and Exchanges will assist you in solving your worst gift and exchange nightmares as you explore research and solutions on: the importance of a gift policy and its interpretation a template for drafting a gift policy G&E procedures in libraries not affiliated with the Association for Research Libraries answers to todays G&E problems disposing and profiting from unwanted gifts encouraging the gifts you want Gifts and Exchanges is a valuable reference that will help you swim through your department’s sea of gifts and exchanges. As a library profesional, you will benefit from this book’s current and well-researched answers to the problems that flood your G&E department.

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Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
Author : Linda S Katz
Publisher : Routledge
Release : 2013-10-18
File : 224 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781317951414


British Librarian Or Book Collectors Guide To The Formation Of A Library In All Branches Of Literature Etc

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Author : William Thomas Lowndes
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Release : 1842
File : 738 Pages
ISBN-13 : ONB:+Z162606201


G K Chesterton Ultimate Collection 200 Novels Historical Works Theological Books Essays Short Stories Plays Poems

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This meticulously edited G. K. Chesterton collection is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: The Father Brown Books: The Innocence of Father Brown The Wisdom of Father Brown The Incredulity of Father Brown The Secret of Father Brown The Scandal of Father Brown The Donnington Affair The Mask of Midas Novels: The Napoleon of Notting Hill The Man who was Thursday The Ball and the Cross Manalive The Flying Inn The Return of Don Quixote Short Stories: The Club of Queer Trades The Man Who Knew Too Much The Trees of Pride Tales of the Long Bow The Poet and the Lunatics Four Faultless Felons The Paradoxes of Mr. Pond The White Pillars Murder The Sword of Wood Poetry: Greybeards At Play The Wild Knight and Other Poems Wine, Water, and Song Poems, 1916 The Ballad of St. Barbara and Other Verses The Ballad of the White Horse Gloria in Profundis Ubi Ecclesia Rotarians Plays: Magic – A Fantastic Comedy The Turkey and the Turk Literary Criticism: A Defence of Penny Dreadfuls Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens The Victorian Age in Literature Charles Dickens - Critical Study Hilaire Belloc Robert Louis Stevenson Historical Works: A Short History of England The Barbarism of Berlin Letters to an Old Garibaldian The Crimes of England The New Jerusalem Theological Works: Heretics Orthodoxy The Everlasting Man The Catholic Church and Conversion Eugenics and other Evils Essays: The Defendant Varied Types All Things Considered Tremendous Trifles What's Wrong with the World Alarms and Discursions A Miscellany of Men Divorce versus Democracy Utopia of Usurers and Other Essays The Superstition of Divorce The Uses of Diversity Fancies Versus Fads The Outline of Sanity The Thing Come to Think All is Grist Sidelights on New London and Newer York All I Survey The Well and the Shallows As I was Saying Other Essays… Travel Sketches: Irish Impressions What I Saw in America Biographical Works Autobiography by G. K. Chesterton G. K. Chesterton – A Critical Study by Julius West

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Genre : Fiction
Author : G. K. Chesterton
Publisher : e-artnow
Release : 2019-02-05
File : 8968 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9788027302062