The Lost Gutenberg: The Astounding Story of One Book's Five-Hundred-Year Odyssey | 
I am posting one book per day from my extensive to-be-read collection. No description and providing no reason for wanting to read it, I just do. Some will be old, some will be new. Don‘t judge me - I have a lot of books. Join the fun if you want.
This is day 253 #bookstoread #tbrpile #bookstagram
Fascinating stuff.
(And I‘d like to be the second woman collector 😉).
#BooksAboutBooks
Couldn‘t work tonight so chilling
pickI am about 1/3 through and am loving the book! I sit and read it with my iPad nearby so I can look up people, books, words that I don‘t understand, etc! The only negative is that I wish the book had come with colored plates of #45!
so-soDavis tells the story of a copy of the Gutenberg Bible, known as Number 45. It took me forever to figure out why this was called the “lost” Gutenberg - and no, it wasn‘t technically lost. I wasn‘t fully engaged with the narrative of this, though it is narrative nonfiction. There‘s something that just didn‘t grab me with this, and I can‘t quite put my finger on it exactly. I‘ll use this one for #SomethingWrittenByAWoman for #Nonfiction2019 .
I‘m not sure if there was really #missing , but the title suggests a copy of the Gutenberg Bible certainly has a rich history. This is due to the library soon...hoping to tackle it this weekend. #ayupaugust
pickVery interesting book about book collectors, sellers, and collections, mostly centered around surviving Gutenberg Bible number 45 (the so-called “lost” Gutenberg, which was actually never lost, so the title 👎🏼). Despite the misleading title, bibliophiles will love this book. Recommended! (I listened to the audiobook).
so-soThe title of this is a little misleading-the book is not really lost, but a number of its owners over the last ~200 years have had to sell it to make ends meet. Also, before the 1800s, we don‘t really know where it was, so the focus is really only on the more recent history of the book, particularly American oil heiress Estelle Doheny, her quest to obtain a copy of the Gutenberg Bible, among other valuable books, and its final destination (Japan).
#Zeke is surveying the new books from the library. #catsoflitsy #libraryhaul
