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Portable magic : a history of books and their readers / Emma Smith.
Smith, Emma (Emma Josephine), author.; ProQuest (Firm)
2022
Z4.Z9 S63 2022
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Title
Portable magic : a history of books and their readers / Emma Smith.
Author
Smith, Emma (Emma Josephine), author.
ISBN
9781524749101
1524749109
9781524749095
1524749095
9780593081839
0593081838
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New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2022.
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©2022
Language
English
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1 online resource ( unpaged)
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Z4.Z9 S63 2022
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002.09
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"Originally published in by Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Random House UK., in London in 2022."
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
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Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 13, 2022).
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Introduction: Magic books
Beginnings: East, West and Gutenberg
Queen Victoria in the trenches
Christmas, gift books and abolition
Shelfies: Anne, Marilyn and Madame de Pompadour
Silent Spring and the making of a classic
The Titanic and book traffic
Religions of the book
10 May 1933: burning books
Library books, camp, and malicious damage
Censored books: '237 goddams, 58 bastards, 31 Chrissakes, and 1 fart'
Mein Kampf : freedom to publish?
Talismanic books
Skin in the game: book-binding and African-American poetry
Choose Your Own Adventure: readers' work
The empire writes back
What is a book?
Epilogue: Books and transformation.

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