Buy this book on-line GEKOSKI, RICK: : Tolkien's Gown & OTHER STORIES OF GREAT AUTHORS AND RARE BOOKSLONDON.CONSTABLE & ROBINSON LTD.,2004. ISBN 184119929X.
UK,slim 12mo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE+/FINE+. No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj. Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,colour photographic illustrated dw/dj with white lettering; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog- ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered, publisher's original plain maroon cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/ backstrip,a maroon headband and montage'd colour pictorial photographic illustrated endpapers of rare book dw/djs.UK,12mo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,v-xvipp+1-240pp [paginated] includes acknowledgements,contents list/table,author's introduction,20 essays/discourses on 20 authors and a sought after title of theirs; plus [unpaginated] half-title with assorted author's facsimile epigraphs to reverse and title page.
In each of the twenty chapters of this erudite and funny work,rare book dealer Rick Gekoski tells the inside story of a great work of modern literature.Based loosely on a hugely successful Radio 4 series,'Rare Books,Rare People',each essay gives the publishing biography of a single book,together with details of Rick Gekoski's involvement with the first edition of the work.
The stories are fascinating and diverse, and involve memorable encounters with,among others, Graham Greene, William Golding, J.D. Salinger, Ted Hughes, Salman Rushdie, Julian Barnes and Harold Pinter.
Relations between book dealers and authors are not always amicable. J.D. Salinger threatens a law suit,William Golding is moved to produce a parody of Dr Gekoski,while Graham Greene is simply delighted to have done business.
Always entertaining,the author also shares some valuable insights: 'What is the value of a book?' he asks.His answers are both critical and financial,involving appraisals of the literary qualities of the works,together with an account of their (sometimes surprising) value in the rare book trade.
For anyone who loves books,'Tolkien's Gown' offers a wealth of amusement and instruction,and enough literary anecdotes to last a lifetime.
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