Quarter creme spine over back and brown marbled boards, gilt title to spine. Blumenthal relates fascinating facts and stories on the charm of books: old libraries; the beginnings of the great University of Paris; stories of authors; etiquette books, cooking books, etc.; vanished volumes; colored bibles, in the South; offbeat authors; rare books; printing, and much more. 'Foreword' There was of old the implication of magic in the word charm, and books can be magical. They give wings to imagination; they recall the past and discern the present. They tell how, when, and who. They are the sesames to careers and the treasuries of memories. Without books we should live in a lost world. Here, in these modest pages, is a 'charm of books' to regale the curious and, perchance, to reward the reflective. Walter Hart Blumenthal. Limited to 500 copies. Original onion skin wrapper, chipped with loss of 1/2 inch to head of spine, 2 inches to lower spine. .Pale stain to lower rear e.p. Cean, tightly bound. sm 8 vo. 110 pp

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