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Loading... Slightly Chipped: Footnotes in Bookloreby Lawrence Goldstone (Author), Nancy Bazelon Goldstone (Author)
None. More of the kinds of experiences that the Goldstones shared in [b:Used and Rare: Travels in the Book World|195631|Used and Rare Travels in the Book World|Lawrence Goldstone|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172594812s/195631.jpg|1831511]. I particularly enjoyed their search for the earliest notes for Bram Stoker's [b:Dracula|17245|Dracula|Bram Stoker|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255650730s/17245.jpg|3165724]. ( )More of the kinds of experiences that the Goldstones shared in [b:Used and Rare: Travels in the Book World|195631|Used and Rare Travels in the Book World|Lawrence Goldstone|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172594812s/195631.jpg|1831511]. I particularly enjoyed their search for the earliest notes for Bram Stoker's [b:Dracula|17245|Dracula|Bram Stoker|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255650730s/17245.jpg|3165724]. A different book from the earlier Used and Rare. While the first book chronicled the authors' gradual immersion into the world of book collecting, this second volume focuses more on the book trade itself rather than their own relationship with the books. That does make this second book a bit less engaging, but nonetheless informational. It moves from book-related events, such as the auction of the estate of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, to themes like the Bloomsbury group, the history of which is recounted in succinct and engaging detail. An especially intriguing chapter discusses the creation of the Bibliofind used book website (which has since been absorbed by Amazon), and the authors' skeptical doubts about the future of book collecting via the internet. My, how the world has changed! The second book in the ongoing life of Lawrence and Nancy Goldstone as they attend book fairs, book stores, and other literary avenues, in the ongoing hunt for rare first edition books. I really enjoyed this book. Well written and charming. Really makes you appreciate books not only for the stories the contain, but the actuall books history and collectibility. After reading the first book by this couple (Used and Rare: Travels in the Book World) I had to pick up this book also. I enjoyed it almost as much. There is a little less glee of discovery now that the couple are a few years into collecting. The description of the Pequot Public Library in Connecticut and the seminar and book sale they attended had me racing to Google Maps to find out how far it was from where I lived. There are still plenty of information for booklovers and new bookstores discovered. I look forward to the next book this couple has written. no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Amazon.com Review (ISBN 0312205872, Hardcover)Who would have guessed that an innocent search for an inexpensive edition of War and Peace could lead to an all-consuming obsession? Nancy and Lawrence Goldstone's romance with rare books arose from just such a search and led them to a world they had never encountered before: the world of antiquarian books. They quickly found themselves infatuated with this quaint and curious world, and scoured the East Coast in search of first editions and rare books. This search, and the curious people they met along the way, is chronicled in their book Used and Rare. Their second book, Slightly Chipped, continues this exploration, taking us on tours of book fairs, libraries, and auctions. No longer the wide-eyed innocents, the Goldstones delve a little deeper into the book world: they explore facets such as fine printing and literary movements, pour over Bram Stoker's notes for Dracula, and puzzle over the incredible markup of hypermoderns. (Never heard of hypermoderns? They are collectible books recently published. A first edition of Sue Grafton's A Is for Alibi sold for $1,250 in 1998. Better check your shelves.)Both the avid bibliophile and the casual reader will find things to enjoy in Slightly Chipped. For the collector, the Goldstones' discussion of the Internet's impact on collecting is illuminating, and their look at the hypermodern market is positively eye-opening. Plus, visits to such places as the Rosenbach Museum in Philadelphia and the Pequot Library in Connecticut will get any bibliophile's salivary glands going. For the casual reader, Slightly Chipped is as warm and engaging as Used and Rare; although the Goldstones have become sophisticated book collectors, there is still plenty of the ingenuous surprise and delight that made Used and Rare such a joy to read. They balance out the serious aspects of book collecting with a liberal peppering of literary anecdotes, ranging from William Morris's tyrannical leadership of the Kelmscott Press to the sexual proclivities of Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Group, keeping the tone light and the pace lively. All this packed into one volume makes Slightly Chipped a rare treat for book lovers of all types. --Perry Atterberry (retrieved from Amazon Wed, 01 Sep 2010 04:13:14 -0400) No library descriptions found. |
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