BOOKS ON FIRE. The tumultuous story of the world's great libraries

by Lucien X. Polastron

A$55 · Offered by Kay Craddock Antiquarian Bookseller

Translated by Jon E. Graham. Pp. xii+372 last blank appendices, notes, bibliography, index; med. 8vo; qr. black and red papered boards, spine lettered in gilt, blind embossed emblem on upper board; dust wrapper; Thames & Hudson, London, 2007. First U.K. edition. *'The story of the world's great libraries from the burning of the great library of Alexandria on three separate occasions and the libraries of the Chinese Qing Dynasty to more modern catastrophic losses such as those

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