Author: JACKSON, Robert / ROTHKOPF, Carol (edited by)
Title: Book Talk: Essays on Books, Booksellers, Collecting, and Special Collections.
Description: Oak Knoll Press, Oak Knoll Press. 2006, xvii,264pp. Illustrated. Cloth, with dust jacket. In very good condition. Following in the tradition of John Carter, Graham Pollard, and Michael Sadlier, Book Talk Essays on Books, Booksellers, Collecting and Special Collectionstakes the reader on a tour of some major ideas and controversies now current in the rare book world. Robert H. Jackson has assembled these writings of an eminent group of scholors, publishers, librarians, booksellers, and collectors that address issues facing contemporary society. Topics such as the future of the book in a printed-format, the internet and collecting trends are some of the issues discussed. This important work belongs on the reading list of all book lovers.

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