#lostbooks — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #lostbooks, aggregated by home.social.
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This post asks: can we estimate the extent of what has disappeared? What does the “dark matter” of book history look like?
#BookHistory #DigitalHumanities #PrintCulture #HungarianHistory #LostBooks
https://translationpatterns.substack.com/p/early-hungarian-books-the-dark-matter -
#Obscure #fantasy novel paperback cover, possibly by (surname) Williams, and a one–hit wonder: A gleeful man holding a flower is leading a fantastic procession. Hero's Journey/Bildungsroman motif, bears comparison with A Voyage To Arcturus by David Lindsay & The Pilgrim's Regress by C. S. Lewis. #LostBooks
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Book Detective
"There's a growing band of people digging through library stacks and second-hand bookshops in search of lost classics. I'm one of them."
Wobbuffet posted Lucy Scholes' article "Meet the archive moles" about editors surfacing worthy forgotten or overlooked books for reprint, with links to houses publishing recovered works.
https://www.metafilter.com/198153/My-work-feels-more-like-that-of-a-detective-than-an-editor
#books #reading #publishing #classics #lost #editors #reprints #forgotten #LostBooks #ForgottenBooks #RecoveredBooks #OldBooks #vintage #stacks