Yet the lost volume is not what it seems, and his search is part of a treacherous game of underworld spies and smugglers, ciphers, and forgeries.
A collection of essays discusses the central and joyful importance of books and reading in the author's life.
His best-known book is 99 Ways to Tell a Story: Exercises in Style, a comics adaptation of Raymond Queneau's Exercises in Style. His recent work includes the comic books Drawn Onward and Bridge.
This witty collection of essays recounts a lifelong love affair with books and language. For Fadiman, as for many passionate readers, the books she loves have become chapters in her own life story.
The very existence of the books she wants has remained secret for centuries. Finally persuaded by Astrid's appeals to his ancestry, Dan reluctantly agrees. But from the moment he enters the monastery, events spiral out of control.
This captivating compilation of science fiction and fantasy short fiction showcases stories of librarians-mysterious curators, heroic bibliognosts, arcane archivists, catalogers of very special collections-and libraries-repositories of ...
Isaac Vainio is a Libriomancer, a member of a secret society founded five centuries ago by Johannes Gutenberg.
An artist-printed signed and numbered silver-gelatin photographic print, eight by ten inches, inside a specially produced clothbound slipcase with a book signed and numbered by the artist.
Ex Libris: Fifty Postcards
But what interested me wasn't the title or the author but the ex-libris pasted to the inside cover. It incorporated a coat of arms, a motto — 'Spe Expecto' — and a name engraved beneath in a heavy Gothic script: Anton Schwarz von ...