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Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: As New. 1st Edition. First edition, 1995. Signed by David Godine, publisher, on endpaper, inscribed for the bookseller. 152pp. w/Contributors Notes & Bibliography. Bright, clean & tight copy, unread, in Fine condition. "The essays in this collection are not so much about books as about reading--the act itself, its glories, its sensuousness, its hazards. Most of the pieces speak of the writers' personal experiences as readers: portraits of the authors as young readers, what to read in bed, the delights of rereading. Some are more pontifical, instructing the reader on what and how to read. What they all have in common, I hope, is that they are themselves good reading."--Steven Gilbar. "And what treasures are here: Vladimir Nabokov on "Good Readers and Good Writers," Harold Brodkey on "Reading, the Most Dangerous Game," Italo Calvino speaking on "Why Read the Classics," William Hazlitt "On Reading Old Books," and Marcel Proust on reading Ruskin. In all, there are twenty-two separate essays, spanning five centuries and featuring writers as diverse as Henry David Thoreau and Robertson Davies, John Ruskin and John Fowles, Hermann Hesse and Stanley Elkin." [jacket copy] Pristine hardcover w/sharp corners & crisp edges, a square & tight binding, wrapped in a bright-as-new jacket.