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The author of this enchanting, exuberant book has been called "America's most vocal and provocative bookman," as well as the "most literate, readable, and perhaps most controversial librarian." His unique gift for communicating his enthusiasm for books, music, and travel in these warm, lively essays opens new worlds to the reader. Powell's earlier books have been about the Book (the little package), book collecting and reading, and the Southwest. The Little Package includes chapters on all these subjects, written with vigor and wisdom, and always with the felicity of the master essayist. Dean Powell's travels around the world on book-buying trips, his delight in music from jazz to Mozart, his reactions to some of his favorite writers--Durrell, Robert Payne, Joseph Wood Krutch, and Erna Fergusson--these are only a few of the pieces that give this book its liveliness and charm. -- Front book jacket flap

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