false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255598400m/5741489.jpg 5741489 1 <B>The first popular narrative history of Shakespeare’s First Folio, the world’s most obsessively pursued book.</B> One book above all others has transfixed connoisseurs for four centuries—a book sold for shillings in the streets of London, whisked to Manhattan for millions, and stored deep within the vaults of Tokyo. The book: William Shakespeare’s First Folio of 1623. Paul Collins, lover of odd books and author of the national bestseller <I>Sixpence House</I>, takes up the strange quest for this white whale of precious books. <P></P>Broken down into five acts, each tied to a different location and century, <I>The Book of William</I>’s travelogue follows the trail of the Folio’s curious rise: a dizzying S otheby’s auction on a pristine copy preserved since the seventeenth century, the Fleet Street machinations of the eighteenth century, the nineteenth century quests for lost Folios, obsessive acquisitions by twentieth century oilmen, and the high-tech hoards of twenty-first century Japan. Finally, Collins speculates on Shakespeare’s cross-cultural future as Asian buyers enter their Folios into the electronic ether, and recounts the book’s remarkable journey as it is found in attics, gets lost in oceans and fires, is bought and sold, and ultimately becomes immortal. 5913161 14 7 2009 The Book of William: How Shakespeare's First Folio Conquered the World total:25|5:8|4:9|3:7|2:1|1:0| 25 99 88 13 5 2 false false Thu Nov 05 06:22:23 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 11 07:21:44 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Aug 14 09:16:15 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 14 09:29:16 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Aug 07 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 30 19:16:24 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 31 22:23:06 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Aug 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 06 17:21:19 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 31 12:37:00 -0700 2009 1
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