Full name: A Splendor of Letters: The Permanence of Books in an Impermanent World

Author: Nicholas A. Basbanes Year: 2003 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Books about books, Non Fiction, History Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780060580803 0060580801

In A Splendor of Letters, Nicholas A. Basbanes continues the lively, richly anecdotal exploration of book people, places, and culture he began in 1995 with A Gentle Madness (a finalist that year for the National Book Critics Circle Award) and expanded in 2001 with Patience & Fortitude, a companion work that prompted the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and biographer David McCullough to proclaim him "the leading authority of books about books." In this beautifully packaged edition, Basbanes brings to a close his wonderful trilogy on the remarkable world of books and bibliophiles. Similar books: Every Book Its Reader by Nicholas A. Basbanes Patience & Fortitude by Nicholas A. Basbanes Phantoms on the Bookshelves by Jacques Bonnet A Gentle Madness by Nicholas A. Basbanes On Paper by Nicholas A. Basbanes Used and Rare by Lawrence Goldstone The Anatomy of Bibliomania by Holbrook Jackson The Book on the Bookshelf by Henry Petroski Among the Gently Mad by Nicholas A. Basbanes Memoirs of a Book Snake by David Meyer Unpacking My Library by Leah Price Biblioholism by Tom Raabe A Passion For Books by Harold Rabinowitz A Pound of Paper by John Baxter Living With Books by Alan Powers Speaking of Books by Rob Kaplan Lunacy and the Arrangement of Books by Terry Belanger Dead Wake by Erik Larson The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs One Summer: America, 1927 by Bill Bryson