From the rear cover
"The covetous foraging for old and rare books", is how Matthews defines "booking". It is an act which leads naturally to the pleasures of adding them to one's personal library, then reading them as instruments of light and measure in a murky and chaotic world. The understanding that books are intrinsic to civilized living is wisdom as old as civilization itself; it is affirmed here, in their various ways, by the people who inspire and inhabit these pages: the quasi-literate clerk of the steamboat Science on the Ohio River in 1835; a young fiction writer who got drunk one night and stole the bust of Edgar Allan Poe from the Poe Museum in Richmond, Virginia; and a guru of the computer age, who writes: "Books have always been important to me and to the people around me". Matthews explores the collecting of old dictionaries, whose definitions can be read as a sort of poetry; an 1840s rhyming book once used as a mnemonic tool for small children; and the wildly scrawled annotations of an exuberant painter in a battered copy of Thomas Hart Benton's An Artist in America.
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- Title Booking Pleasures
- Author Jack Matthews
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 191
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Ohio University Press, Athens, OH
- Date 1995-11
- ISBN 9780821411292 / 0821411292
- Weight 1.12 lbs (0.51 kg)
- Dimensions 9.23 x 6.2 x 0.74 in (23.44 x 15.75 x 1.88 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Ohio - Social life and customs, Book collecting - United States
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 95-31740
- Dewey Decimal Code 381.450
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