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, Maurice Sendak and national librarians.
ISBN: 9780060196950
636. 9780060196950. Quarter cloth copper boards w/ copper gilt letters to black spine. Slight curve to rear pages due to dustjacket, bump to bottom rear board and tips, else very good in a very good mylar-covered dustjacket.
ID# 21791
$155.00
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