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Harper Perennial, 2004-11-02. Paperback. Good. 6x1x9.

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Harper, 2003-11-24. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 6x1x9. Minor shelf wear to binding. Light wear & soiling on edges of text block with remainder mark on bottom edge. Text and images unmarked. The dust jacket shows some light handling, in a mylar cover.

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New York: Perennial / Harper Collins, 2004. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. 6x1x9. First paperback printing. Minimal cosmetic wear. 2004 Trade Paperback. xviii, 442 pp. 8vo. In A Splendor of Letters, Nicholas A. Basbanes continues the lively, richly anecdotal exploration of book people, places, and culture he began in 1995 with A Gentle Madness (a finalist that year for the National Book Critics Circle Award) and expanded in 2001 with Patience & Fortitude, a companion work that prompted the two-time Pulitzer Prize–winning historian and biographer David McCullough to proclaim him "the leading authority of books about books." Basbanes now offers a consideration of the many pressing issues that surround the role of books in contemporary society, such as the willful destruction of books and libraries in Sarajevo, Tibet, and Cambodia, and the spirited efforts to restore them. The matter of "discards" at various libraries takes on an entirely new… Read More

U.S.A.: Harper, 2003. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" In pictorial jacket, 8vo, 444pp. (remainder mark).