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These are books worth stealing, books remembered in the twilight that precedes sleep, books that, for these authors, provided "that moment when a reader seems to have found the perfect mate." Though many of the books extolled here are acknowledged classics, many are not. Helen Garner cherishes a childhood book that "except for members of my immediate family, no Australian I've mentioned the book to ... has had any knowledge of it whatsoever." Sarah Sheard writes lovingly of Down and Out in the Woods: An Airman's Guide to Survival in the Bush, "a manual of food, shelter and first aid [that] was the companion text of my childhood summers." Michael Turner reminisces about a book he never actually read, and Erin Mouré describes a book about the history of fishes that "no one I knew was ever interested in reading." Anne Holzman laments her inability to find a copy of a book for lefty activists called Reweaving the Web of Life (hint to Holzman: check online--used copies are readily available). And Nancy Huston introduces Kressmann Taylor's Address Unknown, "a perfectly astonishing [and prescient] little book." A kind of Rand McNally for the literary explorer, each chapter a hand-forged map leading down bookish roads less traveled. --Jane Steinberg
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Book Description First Edition. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth-backed boards. Spine bands and panel edges slightly dust-toned and rubbed as with age. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Physical description: xiv, 274 pages : illustrations ; 22cm. Subjects: Authors -- Books and reading. Literature -- History and criticism. 1 Kg. Seller Inventory # 315427
Book Description 2001, xiv,274pp. Illustrated. Halfcloth. In good condition. "The editors of "Brick" celebrated the new century by asking contributors to the journal for essays about their favourite "lost classics" books they treasured that are now forgotten. The next issue contained 32 such essays, which led to the idea of soliciting more, and also this book.". Seller Inventory # 65085
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