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008 200608s2020 nyu b 001 0 eng
010 _a 2020023645
020 _a9780374134709
_q(hardcover)
038 _aAzhar
040 _aDLC
_beng
_erda
_cDLC
042 _apcc
050 0 0 _aZ269.3.A58
_bR67 2020
082 0 0 _a002
_223
_bROS
100 1 _aRosenbloom, Megan,
_d1981-
_eauthor.
_994957
245 1 0 _aDark archives :
_ba librarian's investigation into the science and history of books bound in human skin
_cMegan Rosenbloom.
250 _aFirst edition.
260 _aNew York :
_bFarrar, Straus and Giroux,
_c2020
263 _a2010
300 _apages cm
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
_bnc
_2rdacarrier
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _aThe First Printing -- This Dreadful Workshop -- Gentlemen Collectors -- Skin Craft -- Secrets of the Sages-Femmes -- The Long Shadow of the Night Doctors -- The Postmortem Travels of William Corder -- Echoes of Tanner's Close -- The Highwayman's Gift -- Ghosts in the Library -- My Corpse, My Choice -- The French Connection -- Epilogue: Humane Anatomy -- The Anthropodermic Book Project's List of Confirmed Human Skin Books as of March 2020.
520 _a"A medical librarian presents a fascinating, terrifying look into history's rarest books-- those bound in human skin-- and the stories of their creation and collection"--
_cProvided by publisher.
563 _aPB
650 0 _aAnthropodermic books.
_994958
906 _a7
_bcbc
_corignew
_d1
_eecip
_f20
_gy-gencatlg
942 _2ddc
_cLC
999 _c590584
_d590584