Digital Librarian: Book Collecting and Book History

Digital Librarian: Book Collecting and Book History: "Amazon.com - Essential titles for book collectors include ABC for Book Collectors by John Carter and Nicolas Barker, The Book: the Story of Printing and Bookmaking by Douglas C. McMurtrie, Papermaking: The History and Technique of an Ancient Craft by Dard Hunter, An Introduction to Bibliography for Literary Students by Ronald McKerrow, A New Introduction to Bibliography by Philip Gaskell, Bookbinding: Its Background and Technigue by Edith Diehl and Encyclopedia of the Book by Geoffrey Ashall Glaister. Consider, too, Bookstore: The Life and Times of Jeannette Watson and Books & Co. by Lynne Tillman, Collector's Progress by Wilmarth Lewis, A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion for Books by Nicholas A. Basbanes (there is a transcript of the October 15, 1995 C-SPAN Booknotes Nicholas Basbanes Interview), The Island of Lost Maps: A True Story of Cartographic Crime by Miles Harvey, an account of the plundering of academic library map collections by Gilbert Bland (hear a review of the book by critic Maureen Corrigan on the Thursday, September 28, 2000 Fresh Air), Old Books, Rare Friends: Two Literary Sleuths and Their Shared Passion by Madeline B. Stern and Leona Rostenberg, and The Poet and the Murderer: A True Story of Verse, Violence and the Art of Forgery by Simon Worrall."