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 Library: An Unquiet HistoryBest Price: $8.85 Slight, meandering look at libraries, not a true history, more a series of vignettes that Battle... |  Great BooksBest Price: $2.23 As am admitted couch potato middle-brow history buff, I threw this book into the shopping bag at... |  A Family Guide to Narnia: Biblical Truths in C.S. Lewis's The Chronicles of NarniaBest Price: $7.15 A Family Guide to Narnia: Biblical Truths in C.S. Lewis's the Chronicles of Narnia offers the... |  A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion for BooksBest Price: $3.00 Ok not normal, but there are people out there that love books as much as I. Basbanes has created... |  Shakespeare and Company (Second Edition)Best Price: $7.45 This book arrived in excellent condition and during the time it was anticipated. It is a... |
 The Smithsonian Book of BooksBest Price: $26.45 I had been assigned this book for a college course on (duh) the history of books. Before the... |  Introduction to Manuscript StudiesBest Price: $33.04 Providing a comprehensive and accessible orientation to the field of medieval manuscript... |  Flannery O'connor And The Christ-Haunted SouthBest Price: $8.11 This book is both an insightful exploration of O'Connor's dynamic Christian parables as well as... |  Books on Fire: The Destruction of Libraries throughout HistoryBest Price: $7.37 In a Nutshell, this book is just awful. If you have read the earlier review written by Mr Von... |  The Te of Piglet (Pooh)Best Price: $1.45 This book wasn't bad, I just liked Pooh's better. Hopefully they won't make a "Depression... |
 Book History ReaderBest Price: $33.98 Since the invention of the printing press in the fifteenth century, books and print culture have... |  Reading National GeographicBest Price: $15.85 Quite simply, I don't buy into 90% of the authors claims, and the authors seemed to be... |  Flirting with Pride & Prejudice: Fresh Perspectives on the Original Chick-Lit Masterpiece (Smart Pop series)Best Price: $4.84 It is a truth universally acknowledged that magazines should be judged by their best contents... |  120 Banned Books: Censorship Histories of World LiteratureBest Price: $4.00 In "120 Banned Books" the authors pull together a collection of books that have been... |  Angel on the SquareBest Price: $2.87 Angel on the Square is a historical fiction novel that comes alive. Katya a young aristocrat... |
 The Pooh Perplex : A Freshman CasebookBest Price: $8.45 If I ever read Winnie the Pooh, it was decades ago and I have long since forgotten it. An... |  Flags of Our Fathers: Heroes of Iwo Jima (Young Reader's Abridged Edition)Best Price: $1.45 A fascinating look at a part of our history. It provides an in depth look at the American... |  The Books in My LifeBest Price: $12.78 I've been a major HM fiend for 35 years, and this is one that I keep pulling off the shelf just... |  The Zen of Oz: Ten Spiritual Lessons from Over the RainbowBest Price: $10.14 This little book is a gem. The Oz story is viewed through the lense of Zen, yielding yet... |  The Making of a Bestseller: Success Stories from Authors and the Editors, Agents, and Booksellers Behind ThemBest Price: $3.99 "The Making of a Bestseller" is like getting a front row seat in a panel interview... |
 The Statue of Liberty (Ready-to-Read Level 1: Wonders of America)Best Price: $1.19 For many years the Statue of Liberty was the first American sight for many immigrants. Read on... |  Flags of Our Fathers: Heroes of Iwo Jima (Youth Edition)Best Price: $24.00 Anybody who has read about or has had relatives in the war knows about Iwo Jima. Many sadly... |  Booknotes: Stories from American HistoryBest Price: $1.20 Lamb is just great at this kind of compilation. A great take-along or for kids who show an... |  Kafka's Soup: A Complete History of World Literature in 14 RecipesBest Price: $1.49 I bought this book as a gift for a friend who is a great lover of literature. She loved it, and... |  The Evolution of the BookBest Price: $19.50 I should begin by pointing out that the "book," as Kilgour defines it, is not only the... |
 Cyrano de Bergerac (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (B&N Classics)Best Price: $1.17 The scene that has made Edmond Rostand's verse drama in five acts, "Cyrano De... |  Across A Dark & Wild SeaBest Price: $6.12 In the Year of Our Lord, 521, in the Dark Ages that haunted Europe, was born Columcille, the son... |  The Real Rule of Four: The Unauthorized Guide to The New York Times #1 BestsellerBest Price: $2.75 Any best-seller nowadays can be expected to generate a side industry of books, films, computer... |  The Forbidden Best-Sellers of Pre-Revolutionary FranceBest Price: $10.13 The entire study is interesting but is almost entirely based upon a single set of documents... |  Postmodern Pooh (Rethinking Theory)Best Price: $12.04 "Postmodern Pooh" is even funnier than Crews' earlier spoof, "The Pooh... |
 Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created HerBest Price: $2.49 For the feminist historian looking for a book length essay on Nancy Drew's influence on Betty... |  A Companion to Shakespeare (Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture)Best Price: $38.65 There are a few excellent essays here, including George Wright's on Shakespeare's verse, David... |  The Mighty Mississippi (Ready-to-Read. Level 1)Best Price: $1.19 Discover what makes the mighty Mississippi a truly great river. |  Printing, Writers and Readers in Renaissance ItalyBest Price: $20.98 One of the problems for the interested outsider in any field is getting an overview of the... |  Little House by Boston Bay (Little House)Best Price: $16.00 Charlotte Tucker, the then future grandmother of author Laura Ingalls Wilder, is featured in... |
 The Sublime (The New Critical Idiom)Best Price: $18.26 Dorothy Wordsworth, in Recollections of a Tour Made in Scotland, wrote of Coleridge's meeting of... |  The Nature of the Book: Print and Knowledge in the MakingBest Price: $26.97 Adrian Johns tells us much less about the nature of the book than about the origins of the Royal... |  L. Frank Baum: Creator Of OzBest Price: $2.79 During the past several months, I have enjoyed reading the Oz books aloud to my little sisters,... |  Ultimate Peter RabbitBest Price: $12.09 This is one of those amazing DK books where you find something every time you look through it... |  The Historian's Wizard of Oz: Reading L. Frank Baum's Classic as a Political and Monetary AllegoryBest Price: $25.15 Great background on a subject that escapes most history textbooks. The author takes a... |
 Old Books and New Histories: An Orientation to Studies in Book and Print CultureBest Price: $14.63 Studies in the culture and history of the book are a burgeoning academic specialty. Intriguing,... |  American Picturebooks from Noah's Ark to the Beast WithinTruly a labor of love, Barbara Bader's history of the American picturebooks from colonial times... |  Books and Reading: A Book of Quotations (Dover Thrift Editions)Best Price: $1.57 Wasn't exactly what I thought, but is in excellent condition. It's small and easy to get through. |  The Wisdom of Oz: Reflections of a Jungian Sandplay Therapist (Oz Series)Best Price: $6.14 I collect everything Oz, and a friend gave me a copy of this book years ago. At first, I didn't... |  Bemelmans: The Life and Art of Madeline's CreatorBest Price: $15.24 It's our great fortune that two books are published during the same month celebrating two of the... |
 Kiss of Lamourette: Reflections in Cultural HistoryBest Price: $15.00 |  A History of the Book in America: Volume I: The Colonial Book in the Atlantic World (History of the Book in America)Best Price: $28.30 Volume 1, The Colonial Book in the Atlantic World carries the interrelated stories of... |  The Lamp of Experience. Whig History and the Intellectual Origins of the American RevolutionBest Price: $6.93 H. Trevor Colbourn writes that the college-educated colonists received a heavy dose of the Greek... |  100 Banned Books: Censorship Histories of World LiteratureBest Price: $2.95 Great book. Censorship is the enemy of people. One author whose books in China are banned by the... |  Book in Japan: A Cultural History from the Beginnings to the Nineteenth CenturyBest Price: $35.00 This is a very useful study of the history of the book (defined rather broadly) in Japan. It is... |
 Carnival on the Page: Popular Print Media in Antebellum AmericaBest Price: $16.49 This innovative book presents a feast of imagery from the exuberant print culture of the... |  Specters of Mother India: The Global Restructuring of an Empire (Radical Perspectives)Best Price: $21.54 Specters of Mother India tells the complex story of one episode that became the tipping point... |  Pooh and the Philosophers : In Which It Is Shown That All of Western Philosophy Is Merely a Preamble to Winnie-The-PoohBest Price: $4.94 Pooh and the Philosophers is an attempt to link everything Pooh to western philosophy and thus... |  Leyendas cubanasBest Price: $30.64 A reader for your intermediate through early advanced Spanish students. Leyendas cubanas ... |  Perspectives on American Book History: Artifacts and Commentary (Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book series)Best Price: $32.48 This is a book whose time has come! Never before has such an interesting set of essays on... |
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