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A Pound of Paper is a totally addictive memoir about book collecting from a highly acclaimed British film critic and biographer. We meet collectors from a man who only collects books about suicide to those who run in celebrity circles like Harvey Weins
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Enter the totally addictive world of book-collecting.
Welcome to the gimlet-eyed, detail-crazed world of the fanatical book collector -- not just the kind who buys at auction or from catalogues -- but also the sleuth, the type who uses bluff and guile to hunt down his quarry.
Meet a cast of eccentric collectors such as the one who only collects books about suicide or by writers who have killed themselves; meet the completists; the condition freaks; the rich and famous collectors -- Barry Humphries, Harvey Weinstein, Sarah Michelle Gellar. The literati will adore this very entertaining memoir.
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Welcome to the gimlet-eyed, detail-crazed world of the fanatical book collector -- not just the kind who buys at auction or from catalogues -- but also the sleuth, the type who uses bluff and guile to hunt down his quarry.
Meet a cast of eccentric collectors such as the one who only collects books about suicide or by writers who have killed themselves; meet the completists; the condition freaks; the rich and famous collectors -- Barry Humphries, Harvey Weinstein, Sarah Michelle Gellar. The literati will adore this very entertaining memoir.
John Baxter is a novelist and broadcaster as well as being a hugely acclaimed film critic and film biographer. His subjects have included Woody Allen, Steven Spielberg, Stanley Kubrick and Robert De Niro.
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- PublisherSt. Martin's Griffin
- Publication date2005
- ISBN 10 0312317263
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. In the rural Australia of the fifties where John Baxter grew up, reading books was disregarded with suspicion, owning and collecting them with utter incomprehension. Despite this, by the age of eleven Baxter had 'collected' his first book - The Poems of Rupert Brooke. He'd read the volume often, but now he had to own it. This was the beginning of what would become a major collection and a lifelong obsession. His book-hunting would take him all over the world, but his first real find was in London in 1978, when he spotted a rare copy of a Graham Greene children's book while browsing on a stall in Swiss Cottage. It was going for 5 pence. This would also, fortuitously, be the day when he first encountered one of the legends of the book-selling world: Martin Stone. At various times pothead, international fugitive from justice, and professional rock musician, he would become John's mentor and friend. In this brilliantly readable and funny book, John Baxter brings us into contact with such literary greats as Graham Greene, Kingsley Amis, J.G. Ballard and Ray Bradbury. But he also shows us how he penetrated the secret fraternity of 'runners' or book scouts - sleuths who use bluff and guile to hunt down their quarry - and joined them in scouring junk shops, markets, auction rooms and private homes for rarities. In the comic tradition of Clive James's Unreliable Memoirs, A Pound of Paper describes how a boy from the bush came to be living in a Paris penthouse with a library worth millions. It also explores the exploding market in first editions. What treasures are lying unnoticed in your garage? Originally published: London: Doubleday, 2002. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9780312317263
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