From the Book - 1st paperback ed.
Introduction: a passion for books
In a second-hand bookshop / Christopher Morley
Unpacking my library / Walter Benjamin
How to get started in the book business / Stuart Brent
"Look who's been remaindered now"
Ten best-selling books rejected by publishers twenty or more times
Lending books / Anatole Broyard
On the return of a book lent to a friend / Christopher Morley
Welcome home borrowed book
How to justify a private library / Umberto Eco
How to organize a public library / Umberto Eco
Samuel Pepys's library / Nicholas Basbanes
Pillow books / Clifton Fadiman
The new lifetime reading plan / John S. Major; Clifton Fadiman
Comfort found in good old books / George Hamlin Fitch
The collector / Susan Sontag
Bibliomania / Gustave Flaubert
"All the Friedrich Nietzsche you'll ever need"
Bibliomania / Roger Rosenblatt
The book action / Solly Ganor
From Areopagitica / John Milton
Books unread / Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Ten books that shaped the American character / Jonathan Yardley
Books that changed America / Robert B. Downs
The commerce of reading / Michel de Montaigne
Book collecting / Robertson Davies
Bibliomaniacs / John Michell
They don't call it a mania for nothing / Harold Rabinowitz
What is the matter with a bookshop? / A Edward Newton
Ten memorable books that never existed
The last of his race / A. Edward Newton
The perfect book / William Keddie
Books are the windows of the soul / Henry Ward Beecher
How reading changed my life / Anna Quindlen
Talking of old books / A.S.W. Rosenbach
A good time to start a - On reading and collecting / Herbert Faulkner West
Fifteen books we would memorize if we were the "living books" characters in Ray Bradbury's novel Fahrenheit 451
"I just like to be in their presence occasionally"
The "100" game: 100 greatest novels in the English language / A. Edward Newton
Top 100 English-language novels of the twentieth century
91 Chambers Street / Edward Robb Ellis
books about books: a selection.
