Full name: Patience & Fortitude: A Roving Chronicle of Book People, Book Places, and Book Culture

Author: Nicholas A. Basbanes Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Amazon Goodreads ISBNs: 9780060514464 0060514469

In his national bestseller, A Gentle Madness, Nicholas Basbanes explored the sweet obsession people feel to possess books. Now, Basbanes continues his adventures among the “gently mad” on an irresistible journey to the great libraries of the past—from Alexandria to Glastonbury—and to contemporary collections at the Vatican, Wolfenbüttel, and erudite universities. Along the way, he drops in on eccentric book dealers and regales us with stories about unforgettable collectors, such as the gentleman who bought a rare book in 1939 “by selling bottles of his own blood.”Taking the book’s grand title from the marble lions guarding the New York Public Library at 42nd Street, Basbanes both entertains and delights. And once again, as Scott Turow aptly noted, “Basbanes makes you love books, the collections he writes about, and the volume in your hand.” Similar books: A Splendor of Letters by Nicholas A. Basbanes A Gentle Madness by Nicholas A. Basbanes Phantoms on the Bookshelves by Jacques Bonnet Among the Gently Mad by Nicholas A. Basbanes Used and Rare by Lawrence Goldstone Memoirs of a Book Snake by David Meyer The Book on the Bookshelf by Henry Petroski Biblioholism by Tom Raabe A Pound of Paper by John Baxter Warmly Inscribed by Lawrence Goldstone A Passion For Books by Harold Rabinowitz Slightly Chipped by Lawrence Goldstone Speaking of Books by Rob Kaplan Lunacy and the Arrangement of Books by Terry Belanger Unpacking My Library by Leah Price