Books About James Branch Cabell

ON THE PLEASURES OF CONNECTING
AND COLLECTING: Or, How a Book Buyer
Obsessed On-Line, by Jethro K. Lieberman

Hall Code
Description
*E35
First Printing 2000

IMAGES

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COMPILATION

Full Title:

There is no separate title page; the front cover serves as the title page recto: [enclosed in a single ruled box, on orange and white vertical striped ground, in black italic] On the | Pleasures of Connecting & Collecting | Or how | A Book Buyer Obsessed On-Line | [below box] JETHRO K. LIEBERMAN | [publisher's device in orange] | The Press at James Pond | [in orange] May 2000 (see image above).

Title page verso: The typeface is Adobe Caslon. | This pamphlet celebrates the acquisition | by the Press at James Pond | of the Tektronix 740DX printer. | This edition is limited to 350 copies, of which this is Copy No. [handwritten in blue] 278. ©2000 by Jerome K. Lieberman  (see image above).

Publication:

n.p. (Ardsley, N.Y.): The Press at James Pond; May 2000

Collation:

Thin crown octavo in self-wraps [22.9 cm. (9-in.) x 15.2 cm. (6-in.)]; ii + 12 + colophon; (i) title page (front cover); (ii) publication data; 1-12 text; colophon located on recto of rear cover.

Wraps:

Cream light card self-wraps; twice stapled; lettering and decorations in black and orange. Front cover: [enclosed in a single ruled box, on orange and white vertical striped ground, in black italic] On the | Pleasures of Connecting & Collecting | Or how | A Book Buyer Obsessed On-Line | [below box] JETHRO K. LIEBERMAN | [publisher's device in orange] | The Press at James Pond | [in orange] May 2000. Rear cover: [decorated bracket in orange] Connecting and Collecting [decorated bracket in orange] | WHEREIN the tale is told | of a 21st-century affliction | ― namely the armchair route | to used bookstores everywhere; | HEREIN, oh yes, of my | [in italic] modem operandi. | [device in orange] (see image above).

Dedication:

None

Colophon:

When he is not ordering books, Jerome K Lieberman | is Professor of Law and Director of the Writing | Program at New York Law School, and effective July 1 | 2000 Associate Dean of Academic Affairs. He is also | adjunct professor of political science at Columbia | University. (see image above).

Notes:

On the Pleasure [&c] is the author's description of, and meditation on, the dawn of internet book-buying in the 1990s, and his pursuit thereby of more and more books (and variant editions of books) by James Branch Cabell.