Re: Best Memoirs of Book Collectors/Dealers

["Patricia L. Chalmers" <Patricia.Chalmers@UKINGS.NS.CA>]

        I have enjoyed this thread and look forward to reading Altick's 
The scholar adventurers.  In looking for his book, I found that he has also 
written an autobiography, A Little Bit of Luck: The Making of an 
Adventurous Scholar, published by the Xlibris Corporation in Philadelphia 
in 2002.  Xlibris is a self-publishing company, and so, typically, the book 
has not achieved a wide distribution.  I wonder why Altick, who had 
published so many books with major publishers, including several university 
presses, chose to go this route.  Has anyone read the book?

        Patricia L. Chalmers



At 09:20 PM 27/07/2006 -0700, you wrote:
> Altick's The Scholar Adventurers. What a  wonderful book!
>
> I read  this  while a graduate student in the early 1970s  before I ever
> considered becoming a bookseller.  Altick's  wonderful prose style stays
> with me, after all these years, along with a small handful of  books
> that  reflect their  author's love of their  subject matter and of
> language.
>
> Gordon Hollis

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