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Download - Lonely Planet Hidden Libraries: The World's Most Unusual Book Depositories Gift Collection
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items A tightly curated set of beautifully produced books for readers who are fascinated by libraries, bookstores, and the culture of reading. Each title deepens or complements the globe-spanning, story-rich perspective found in Lonely Planet Hidden Librar...
Essential centerpiece for anyone intrigued by unconventional reading spaces, this book profiles 50 hidden or unusual libraries across six continents, from desert outposts to prison libraries and mobile book tanks. It blends travel writing, human stor...
Lonely Planet Hidden Libraries: The World's Most Unusual Book ...
A massive photo volume for design, architecture, and book lovers who want to linger over the grandeur of historic libraries. Italian photographer Massimo Listri documents baroque, monastic, and civic interiors from around the world in over 500 pages ...
Massimo Listri. The World's Most Beautiful Libraries - Taschen
This updated edition condenses Listri's celebrated library photography into a slightly more compact, gift-friendly format while preserving the sense of awe. It highlights papal, monastic, and university collections such as the Vatican Apostolic Libra...
Massimo Listri. The World's Most Beautiful Libraries - Taschen
For readers drawn to the backstories behind the institutions in Hidden Libraries, this narrative history traces libraries from ancient Mesopotamian tablet rooms to modern public systems. Historians Andrew Pettegree and Arthur der Weduwen emphasize cy...
The Library: A Fragile History - Books - Amazon.com
Stuart Kells offers an eclectic, anecdote-driven tour of real and imagined libraries, from the Bodleian and the Folger to fantasy and literary creations. This is well suited to readers who enjoyed the quirky human stories in Hidden Libraries and want...
The Library: A Catalogue of Wonders: Kells, Stuart - Amazon.com
Compiled by the Library of Congress, this lavishly illustrated volume focuses on how libraries organize and reveal their collections through cataloging. Featuring over 200 images of historic catalog cards, first-edition covers, and archival photograp...
The Card Catalog: Books, Cards, and Literary Treasures
New Yorker cartoonist Bob Eckstein combines watercolor storefront portraits with short anecdotes from 75 storied bookshops around the globe. While Lonely Planet Hidden Libraries focuses on libraries, this book shifts the lens to bookstores as communi...
Footnotes from the World's Greatest Bookstores: True Tales and Lost ...
Edward Brooke-Hitching assembles an illustrated cabinet of curiosities featuring bizarre and rare books, from blood-written texts to enormous tomes and undeciphered manuscripts. It's a natural next step for readers intrigued by the more extreme or un...
The Madman's Library: The Strangest Books, Manuscripts and Other ...
Susan Orlean blends true-crime investigation with institutional history in her account of the 1986 Los Angeles Public Library fire and its aftermath. For readers of Hidden Libraries who were struck by how vulnerable book spaces can be, this offers a ...
The Library Book: Orlean, Susan: 9781476740188 - Amazon.com
Jen Campbell's illustrated nonfiction surveys more than 300 unusual bookshops on six continents, from boats and barns to mountain book vans, mixing micro-histories, interviews, and trivia. It makes an excellent companion for readers who enjoyed the t...
The Bookshop by Evan Friss - Penguin Random House