Every Book Its Reader: The Power of the Printed Word to Stir the World

New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2005. Hardcover. Fine. Hardcover. A handsome first edition of this fifth book to be written by Basbanes on the world of books, authors, and literary scholarship. This work examines a specific aspect of book culture - what can we know about influential past and present figures by what they read. Bound in a bright blue cloth binding with gilt titling to spine. In a white and black dust jacket with a red spine with white titlling. Housed in a blue slipcase. In fine condtion. Octavo. 360 pages including notes and index. BOB/011024.