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HAWAII STATE PUBLIC LIBRARY SYSTEM
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Basbanes, Nicholas A., 1943-
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Paper -- History.
Papermaking -- History.
Paper industry -- History.
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On paper : the every...
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On paper : the everything of its two-thousand-year history / Nicholas A. Basbanes.
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Basbanes, Nicholas A., 1943-
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2013.
Subjects
Paper -- History.
Papermaking -- History.
Paper industry -- History.
ISBN:
9780307266422 (hardcover) :
0307266427 (hardcover)
Description:
xvi, 430 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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First Edition.
Contents:
Common bond -- Goddess by the stream -- Road trip -- Rags to riches -- Rolling on the river -- One and done -- Fiery consequences -- Papers, please -- Hard copy -- Metamorphosis -- Face value -- On paper -- Things unknown -- The drawing board -- Sleight of hand -- In the mold -- At the crossroads -- Elegy in fragments.
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A consideration of all things paper--the invention that revolutionized human civilization; its thousand-fold uses (and misuses); its sweeping influence on society; its makers, shapers, collectors, and pulpers--by the admired cultural historian.
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Hawaii State Library
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676.09 Ba
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