Digital Edition 1.0
Text © 2019 Thatcher Wine and Elizabeth Lane
Illustrations © 2019 Samantha Hahn
Photographs © 2019 Juniper Books, except as noted
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced by any means whatsoever without written permission from the publisher, except brief portions quoted for purpose of review.
Published by
Gibbs Smith
P.O. Box 667
Layton, Utah 84041
1.800.835.4993 orders
Cover design by Jenny Carrow
Front cover photograph by Kylie Fitts
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data:
Names: Wine, Thatcher, 1972- author. | Lane, Elizabeth (Bookseller), author. | Juniper Books (Boulder, Colo.)
Title: For the love of books : designing and curating a home library / Thatcher Wine & Elizabeth Lane of Juniper Books.
Description: Layton, Utah : Gibbs Smith, [2019]
Identifiers: LCCN 2018060862 | ISBN 9781423652168 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Book collecting. | Private libraries. | Books in interior decoration.
Classification: LCC Z987 .W497 2019 | DDC 002.075—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018060862
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