Patience & Fortitude A Roving Chronicle of Book People, Book Places, and Book Culture
New York: HarperCollinsPublishers, 2001. First Edition, First Printing, SIGNED by Basbanes on half-title page. 636 pp. Index, bibliography, notes, illustrations. Author's second compilation (after A Gentle Madness) of lovingly researched profiles of bookish people and places, including Abel Berland, Nicholson Baker, Umberto Eco, Peter B. Howard of Serendipity, Barry Moser.....