Document Type
Book
Journal/Book Title/Conference
Publishing Books
Publisher
Transaction Publishers
Publication Date
Summer 1997
First Page
ix
Last Page
xv
Abstract
WISE COMMENTATORS have long evaluated books and bookmaking. "Man builds no structure which outlives a book," wrote Eugene Fitch Ware in The Book, and Justin M'Carthy's A Ballade of Book-Making declared, "The critics challenge and defend ... of making books there is no end." Others have written loving odes to the book. Garrison Keillor, for instance: The book is a "great and ancient invention," he marveled, "slow to hatch, as durable as a turtle, light and shapely as befits a descendant of the tree .... A handsome, useful object begotten by the passion for truth ... [books] contain our common life and keep it against the miserable days when meanness operates with a free hand, and save' it for the day when the lonesome reader opens the cover and the word is resurrected."
Recommended Citation
Everette E. Dennis, Edward C. Pease and Craig LaMay, Eds. Publishing Books. (New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers, 1997).
