Lewis, Roy Harley.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Arco Pub. 1985
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 686.3 LEWPetroski, Henry
Summary: This ultimate book on books tells how they came to be and how we keep them, from papyrus scrolls boxed at Alexandria through Gutenberg's era to books shelved upright at the Library of Congress.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD 022.4 PETPetroski, Henry.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 022.4 PETWilliams, Pip
Summary: "It is 1914, and as the war draws the young men of Britain away to fight, women must keep the nation running. Two of those women are Peggy and Maude, twin sisters who live on a narrowboat in Oxford and work in the bindery at the university press. Ambitious, intelligent Peggy has been told for most of her life that her job is to bind the books, not read them-but as she folds and gathers pages,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2023