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Fifty Forgotten Books is a very special sort of book about books,
by a great bookman and for book-people of all ages and levels of
experience. Not quite literary criticism, not quite an
autobiography, it is at once a guided tour through the dusty
backrooms of long vanished used bookstores, a love letter to
bookshops and bookselling, and a browser's dream wish list of often
overlooked and unloved novels, short story collections, poetry
collections and works of nonfiction. In these pages, R. B. Russell,
publisher of Tartarus Press, doesn't only discuss the books of his
life, but explains what they have meant to him over time, charting
his progress as a writer and publisher for over thirty years . . .
and a bibliophile for many more. Here is living proof of how
literature, books, and book collecting can be an intrinsic part of
one's personal, professional and imaginative life, and as not only
a solitary act, but a social one, resulting in treasured
friendships, experiences, and loves one might never, otherwise,
have enjoyed. Filled with a lively nostalgia for the era when
finding strange new books meant pounding the pavement and not just
filling in search engines, Fifty Forgotten Books is for anyone who
wishes they could still browse the dusty bookshelves of their
youth, and who can't wait to get back out into the world in quest
of the next text liable to change their life.
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Ghosts (Paperback)
R.B. Russell; Introduction by Mark Valentine
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R545
Discovery Miles 5 450
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