Book Talk: Essays on Books, Booksellers, Collecting, and Special Collections, by Jackson, Robert H. and Carol Z. Roghkopf [Editors]
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Book Talk: Essays on Books, Booksellers, Collecting, and Special Collections, by Jackson, Robert H. and Carol Z. Roghkopf [Editors]. Oak Knoll Press: New Castle, Delaware, 2006. Edition: First printing. ISBN: 1584561882. Hardcover, 6.25 by 9.25 inches, 265 pages. Brown cloth with gilt lettering on spine; illustrated with black and white photographs. Includes Index.
Condition: Fine in a Fine jacket.
Contents: Chapters and authors included are:
- Preface, by Robert H. Jackson
- Foreword, by John C. Carson, MD
- Introduction: What is the fellowship of American Bibliophilic societies?, by Lawrence N. Siegler
BOOKS
- The Past, Present, and Future of the Book, by Jason Epstein
- "Only Copy Known": Random Reflections on Rarity, by Bruce Whiteman
- Books That Everyone Has Forgotten: Some Preliminary Notes on Low Spots In Literature, by Garrett Scott
- The Pre-Socratic Project and Remarks on the Philosophical Side of Find Printing, by Peter Rutledge Koch
- The Woodcut in Ferrara in the Late Fifteenth Century, by Daniel De Simone
- Aurora Australis (1908), Edited by Ernest H. Shackleton: A new Description of the First State of the First Book Published on the Antarctic Continent, by Martin L. Greene
BOOKSELLERS
- The Messiah Factor in Bookselling, by Tom Congalton
- The American Antiquarian Book Trade: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow, by John Crichton
- Adventures of a Bookseller, by Priscella Juvelis
- Roxburghe to eBay: A Brief Survey of the Way Books Change Hands, by Peter Kraus
- Some Thoughts on the Maturing of the Rare Book Market, by Ken Lopez
- My Adventures in Academe, by Anthony Garnett
COLLECTING
- Will the Book Collector of Today be the Doner of Tomorrow?, by Robert H. Jackson
- A Book Collector Builds A Life, by Arthur L. Schwarz
- The Future of Book Collecting, by Paul T. Ruxin
SPECIAL COLLECTIONS
- What Can A Librarian Do?, by Roger E. Stoddard
- An Embarrassment of Riches: Collecting Trends in Institutional Special Collections, by Samuel Streit
- I Didn't Know You Had That! -- Resuscitating Special Collections, by Geoffrey D. Smith