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Author Powell, Lawrence Clark, 1906-2001, author.

Title Books in my baggage : adventures in reading and collecting / Lawrence Clark Powell.

Publication Info. Cleveland : World Publishing Company, [1960]
©1960

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe Special Collections Whitehead  002.075 P871b 1960    ---  Lib Use Only
Edition First edition.
Description 255 pages ; 22 cm
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Contents 1. First person bibliographical: The time, the place, and the book -- Nine by nine -- Of the earth earthy -- Glory of life -- Of whales and grass -- Ripeness is all -- No life without books -- Speaking of books -- 2. Bookman in Britain: Book hunting in Britain -- A Southwesterner in Scotland -- To Newbury to buy an old book -- Rendezvous in Cadogan Square -- 3. Three Americans: The making of a poet -- The Miller of Big Sur -- Mr. Southwest -- 4. Landscape with books: Bookscapes of California -- Arizona's dry and wrinkled land -- East of the Colorado -- Books in my baggage -- Books determine -- Revista Nueva Mexicana -- Of books and the river -- Landscape with books.
Summary Collection of essays on books, book collecting in Great Britain, western writers, the relationship of writers, their time and place to their books.
Bibliography "A reading list of good books about books": pages 243-247
Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-247) and index.
Subject Bibliomania.
Book collecting.
Book collecting. (OCoLC)fst00836132
Bibliomania. (OCoLC)fst00831405
Genre/Form Essays. (OCoLC)fst01919922
Essays.

 
    
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