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Books and Bookmen
Ian MacLaren
Books and Bookmen
Ian MacLaren
They cannot be separated any more than sheep and a shepherd, but I am minded to speak of the bookman rather than of his books, and so it will be best at the outset to define the tribe. It does not follow that one is a bookman because he has many books, for he may be a book huckster or his books may be those without which a gentleman's library is not complete. And in the present imperfect arrangement of life one may be a bookman and yet have very few books, since he has not the wherewithal to purchase them. It is the foolishness of his kind to desire a loved author in some becoming dress, and his fastidiousness to ignore a friend in a fourpence-halfpenny edition. The bookman, like the poet, and a good many other people, is born and not made, and my grateful memory retains an illustration of the difference between a bookowner and a bookman which I think is apropos...
Media | Książki Paperback Book (Książka z miękką okładką i klejonym grzbietem) |
Wydane | 3 marca 2018 |
ISBN13 | 9781986153430 |
Wydawcy | Createspace Independent Publishing Platf |
Strony | 36 |
Wymiary | 152 × 229 × 2 mm · 63 g |
Język | English |
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