Ex Libris: 100+ Books to Read and Reread by Michiko Kakutani - 2020

New York: Clarkson Potter, 2020. SIGNED. 1st/1st. New. NF. Stated First Edition. First printing with complete 10 number line ending in 1. Signed by Michiko Kakutani on a bookplate on the half-title page. This unread book is tight and square with solid hinges and binding. Illustrated paper over boards with gilt details is clean and unmarred. Faint wear to top corners, else corners are sharp and fine. Textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate or markings and not BCE, ex-library or remaindered. Color illustrations and pattern endpapers. No dust jacket, as issued. $25.00 price on back panel. 301 pages. 5 1/2" X 7 3/4" tall. 301 pages.

Michiko Kakutani writes: "In a world riven by political and social divisions, literature can connect people across time zones and zip codes, across cultures and religions, national boundaries and historical eras. It can give us an understanding of lives very different from our own, and a sense of the shared joys and losses of human experience."

Readers will discover novels and memoirs by some of the world's most gifted writers: favorite classics worth reading or rereading and nonfiction works — both old and new — that illuminate our social and political landscape.

With richly detailed illustrations by lettering artist Dana Tanamachi that evoke vintage bookplates, Ex Libris is an impassioned reminder of why reading matters.