Full name: Used and Rare: Travels in the Book World

Authors: Lawrence Goldstone, Nancy Goldstone Year: 1997 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Books about books, Non Fiction, Memoirs, Travel Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780312187682 0312187688

When Nancy tracked down a ten-dollar copy of War and Peace in order to win a birthday bet with Larry, the Goldstones' love affair with old books began. Over the next three years they haunted every used and rare bookshop between New York and Boston that they could find, from dingy, dust-filled barns to elegant Park Avenue galleries. Starting small on cheap, out-of-print used books, their addiction soon graduated to first editions and, finally, to three-quarter morocco, custom-bound antiquarian classics that they could not afford. Along the way, they gained an education in books--and in people--that we can all savor. This warm and witty story is filled with eccentric characters, from a punk book dealer peddling fifty-thousand-dollar modern firsts to a golf-obsessed Shakespearean scholar with books on demonic possession in his basement. Part travel story, part love story, and part memoir, Used and Rare is an absorbing and delightful journey and a love letter to book lovers everywhere. Similar books: Slightly Chipped by Lawrence Goldstone Memoirs of a Book Snake by David Meyer A Pound of Paper by John Baxter Among the Gently Mad by Nicholas A. Basbanes Warmly Inscribed by Lawrence Goldstone Speaking of Books by Rob Kaplan Book Finds by Ian C. Ellis The Adventures of a Treasure Hunter by Charles P. Everitt Modern Book Collecting by Robert A. Wilson A Splendor of Letters by Nicholas A. Basbanes Patience & Fortitude by Nicholas A. Basbanes The Anatomy of Bibliomania by Holbrook Jackson Editions & Impressions by Nicholas A. Basbanes Great Books and Book Collectors by Alan G. Thomas Old Books, Rare Friends by Leona Rostenberg Little Princes by Conor Grennan Hiking Through by Paul Stutzman Kabul Beauty School by Deborah Rodriguez The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street by Helene Hanff Dispatches from Pluto by Richard Grant