Memoirs of a Book Snake: Forty Years of Seeking and Saving Old Books
by David Meyer
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The author describes his passion for book collecting, which has taken him around the world in search of rare books, finding treasures and meeting interesting people along the way.Tags
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Loved it!! Filled with tons of stories of rare or valuable or just plain fun books found by Mr. Meyer's over the course of his life as a book hunter. Highly recommend for anyone who loves books but not just the stories in them but the life of the actual book itself.
Well written, but primarily a collection of anecdotes rather than a connected narrative. That isn't necessarily a flaw, but just not my preference.
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Common Knowledge
- Original publication date
- 2001
Classifications
- Genres
- Nonfiction, General Nonfiction, Biography & Memoir
- DDC/MDS
- 002.092 — Computer science, information & general works Computer science, knowledge & systems Books (Science and history of the book) Standard subdivisions Biography and History Biographies related to books and book collecting
- LCC
- Z989 .M49 .A3 — Bibliography, Library Science and Information Resources Libraries Book collecting
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- 131
- Popularity
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- Reviews
- 2
- Rating
- (3.68)
- Languages
- English, Finnish
- Media
- Paper
- ISBNs
- 1
