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A pound of paper: confessions of a book addict

By John , Baxter

Book information

Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books : St. Martin's Press
Year
2003
ISBN
0312317255, 0312317263, 9780312317263, 9781466839892, 9780312317256
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
353 kB (360991 bytes)
Edition
First U.S. edition
Pages
10 unnumbered pages, 417 pages ; 19 cm\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
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Description

A book collector offers his recollections of his encounters with literary figures and traces his transformation from an Australian bush child to a Parisian penthouse occupant with a personal library worth millions. 1 Collecting Graham 3 -- 2 Left-handed Guns 17 -- 3 The Rules of the Game 41 -- 4 Surly Bonds 58 -- 5 Star Begotten 72 -- 6 The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Reader 83 -- 7 Haunted Screens 102 -- 8 The Old Country 141 -- 9 A Regional Collection 163 -- 10 With the Rich and Mighty ... 191 -- 11 The End of the Affair 219 -- 12 Bookshop Dreams 245 -- 13 Without Whom ... 269 -- 14 There and Back Again 293 -- 15 Guaranteed Anatomically Correct 315 -- 16 Shakespeare and Company, and Company 343 -- Appendix I Lists: Cyril Connolly's The Modern Movement 369 -- Appendix II 'If Your House was on Fire ... ' An Informal Poll 389 -- Appendix III eBay Gems 412.

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