The Books in My Life PDF

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There are three magazines I forgot to mention when Speaking of good magazines: jugend, The Enemy (edited by that amazing, bright spirit, Wyndham Lewis), and The Masque of Gordon Craig. And now a word about the man to whom this book is dedicated - Lawrence Clark Powell.

It was on one of his visits to Big Sur that this individual, who knows more about books than any one I have ever had the good fortune to meet, suggested that I write (for him if for no one else) a short book about my experience with books.

Some months later the germ, which had always been dormant, took hold.

After writing about fifty pages I knew that I could never rest content with a summary account of the subject.

Powell knew it too, no doubt, but he was cunning or discreet enough to keep it to himself.

I owe Larry Powell a great deal. For one thing, and it is a big to me because it means the correction of a false attitude, I owe him my present ability to view librarians as human beings, very live human beings, sometimes.