Harold Rabinowitz

Review (examine, summarize, inspect); this book includes:
-In a Second-Hand Bookshop by Christopher Morley
-Unpacking My Library: A Talking About Book Collection by Walter Benjamin
-The Ritual by Rob Kaplan
-How to Get Started in the Book Business by Stuart Brent
-Ten Best-Selling Books Rejected by Publishers Twenty or More Times
-Lending Books by Anatole Broyard
-On the Return of a Book Lent to a Friend by Christopher Morley
-Welcome Home Borrowed Book by Anonymous
-How to Justify a Private Library by Umberto Eco
-How to Organize a Public Library by Umberto Eco
-Samuel Pepys's Library by Nicolas Basbanes
-Pillow Books by Clifton Fadiman
-The New Lifetime Reading Plan by Clifton Faiman and John S. Major
-Comfort Found in Good Old Books by George Hamlin Fitch
-The Collector by Susan Sontag
-Bibliomania by Gustave Flaubert
-Bibliomania by Roger Rosenblatt
-The Book Action by Solly Ganor
-From Areopagitica by John Milton
-Books Unread by Thomas Wentworth Higginson
-Ten Books That Shaped the American Character by Jonathan Yardley
-Books That Changed America by Robert B. Downs
-The Commerce of Reading by Michel De Montaigne
-Book Collecting by Robertson Davies
-Bibliomaniacs by John Michell
-They Don't Call It a Mania for Nothing by Harold Rabinowitz
-Bibliolexicon
-What Is the Matter with the Bookshop? by A. Edward Newton
-Ten Memorable Books That Never Existed (and Where They Were Mentioned)
-The Last of His race by A. Edward Newton
-The Perfect Book by William Keddie
-Books Are the Windows of the Soul by Henry Ward Beecher
-How Reading Changed My Life by Anna Quindlen
-Three by Quindlen: Three Interesting Lists of Books by Anna Quindlen
-Talking of Old Books by A.S.W. Rosenbach
-Potch by Leo Rosten
-A Good Time to Start (a Book Club) by Al Silverman
-Invasion of the Book Envelopes by John Updike
-My Friends by Petrarch
-Norman Mailer's Ten Favorite American Novels
-W. Somerset Maugham's Ten Great Novels
-The Bible Through the Ages by Ben D. Zevin
-Aldus Manutius by William Dana Orcott
-Benjamin Franklln's Epitaph
-The Collection by Wiliam Targ
-The Newark Public Library by Philip Roth
-Why Does Nobody Collect Me? by Robert Benchley
-How Not to Care for Books by Holbrook Jackson
-On Reading and Collecting by Herbert Faulkner West
-How to Care for Books by Estelle Ellis and Caroline Seebohm
-Fifteen Books We Would Memorize If We Were the "Living Books" Characters in Ray Bradbury's Novel Fahrenheit 452 by The Editors
-The "100" Game
-100 Greatest Novels in the English Language
-Top 100 English Language Novels of the Twentieth Century
-91 Chambers Street by Edward Robb Ellis (Map of Fourth Avenue Broadway Booksellers by Mahlon Blaine)
-Bibliobibliography - Books About Books: A Slection… (more)

Ever since Orville and Wilbur Wright tested their flying machine on the sands of Kitty Hawk, designers, builders and pilots have striven to take their planes farther, faster, higher. Presented on the beautiful, large, color pages are the stories and images of 22 of the greatest models ever built, from the Wright Flyer and the French Bl riot XI to the Concorde Supersonic Transport SST and the Northrop B-2 Stealth Bomber. Each of these aircraft introduced new design concepts that opened up whole new vistas in the field of aeronautical engineering: that's what makes them classics. Along with planes such as the Fokker D-VII (Germany), Sopwith Camel (U.K.), Sikorsky Ilya-Mourometz (USSR), Messerschmitt Bf 109f (Germany), and Mitsubishi A6M-3 Risen: The Zero (Japan), come a cast of fascinating, eccentric characters who dedicated their lives to flying… (more)