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Book

Ex libris : confessions of a common reader

Call Number

  • 814 F139 (CEN)

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Edition

1st ed.

Publication Information

New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, c1998.

Physical Description

xi, 162 p. ; 20 cm.

Contents

  • Marrying libraries
  • Joy of Sesquipedalians
  • My odd shelf
  • Scorn not the sonnet
  • Never do that to a book
  • True womanhood
  • Words on a flyleaf
  • You are there
  • His'er problem
  • Insert a caret
  • Eternal ink
  • Literary glutton
  • Nothing new under the sun
  • Catalogical imperative
  • My ancestral castles
  • Sharing the mayhem
  • P.M.'s empire of books
  • Secondhand prose.

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