Books in my Baggage: Adventures in Reading and Collecting

by Lawrence Clark Powell

Book, 1960

Status

Available

Call number

010

Genres

Collection

Your library

Publication

Cleveland, World Pub. Co. [1960] 255 p. 22 cm.

Description

“Any librarian who wants to convert a potential every-day-a-week reader into a real one could do much worse than by slipping him a copy of Powell's essays.”– Library Quarterly

Subjects

Bibliomania

Language

English

Physical description

255 p.; 22 cm

Local notes

READIN, bedroom table

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