The Confessions Of A Collector

Author : Richard Yancey
Publisher : Zondervan
ISBN 13 : 0061740756
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Confessions of a Tax Collector written by Richard Yancey and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2009-03-17 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twelve years ago, Richard Yancey answered a blind ad in the newspaper offering a salary higher than what he’d made over the three previous years combined. It turned out that the job was for the Internal Revenue Service -- the most hated and feared organization in the federal government. So Yancey became the man who got in his car, drove to your house, knocked on your door, and made you pay. Never mind that his car was littered with candy wrappers, his palms were sweaty, and he couldn’t remember where he stashed his own tax records. He was there on the authority of the United States government. With "a rich mix of humor, horror, and angst [and] better than most novels on the bestseller lists" (Boston Sunday Globe), Confessions of a Tax Collector contains an astonishing cast of too-strange-for-fiction characters. But the most intriguing character of all is Yancey himself who -- in detailing how the job changed him and how he managed to pull himself back from the brink of moral, ethical, and spiritual bankruptcy -- reveals what really lies beneath those dark suits and mirrored sunglasses. This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more.

Author : William Carew Hazlitt
Publisher : London : Ward & Downey
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Confessions of a Collector written by William Carew Hazlitt and published by London : Ward & Downey. This book was released on 1897 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : NICHOLAS. ROYLE
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781784632137
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book White Spines written by NICHOLAS. ROYLE and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A mix of memoir and narrative non-fiction. White Lines is about a Nicholas Royle's passion for Picador's fiction publishing from the 1970s to the end of the 1990s. It explores the bookshops and charity shops, the books themselves and the way a unique collection grew and became a literary obsession.

Author : Hunter Davies
Publisher : Quercus
ISBN 13 : 9781847246042
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Confessions of a Collector written by Hunter Davies and published by Quercus. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An entertaining guide to how to collect a wide range of items - crammed with anecdotes, stories and advice gleaned from a lifetime of collecting.

Author : William Carew Hazlitt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The confessions of a collector written by William Carew Hazlitt and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Carlton Lake
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811211307
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Confessions of a Literary Archaeologist written by Carlton Lake and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1990 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author recounts his experiences in building collections of rare books and manuscripts of French literature, and reveals little-known facts about French artists, composers, and writers.

Author : John Baxter
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312317263
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Pound of Paper written by John Baxter and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2005-04 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published: London: Doubleday, 2002.

Author : William Carew Hazlitt
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
ISBN 13 : 9781230210650
Total Pages : 70 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Confessions of a Collector written by William Carew Hazlitt and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1897 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XVI The Question of Condition considered More at Large-- How One most Forcibly Realises Its Importance and Value--Limited Survival of Ancient Coins in Fine State--Practical Tests at Home and Abroad --Lower Standard in Public Institutions and the Cause--Only Three Collectors on My Lines besides Myself--The Romance of the Shepherd Sale --Its Confirmation of My Views--Small Proportion of Genuine Amateurs in the Coin-Market-- Fastidious Buyers not very Serviceable to the Trade --An Anecdote by the Way--The Eye for State more Educated in England than Abroad--American Feeling and Culture--What will Rare Old Coins bring, when the Knowledge of Them is more developed?--The Ladies stop the Way--Continental Indifference to Condition -- Difficulties attendant on Ordering from Foreign Catalogues--Contrast between Them and Our Own--D'une Beauti Excessive--Condition a Relative Term--Its Dependence on Circumstances--Words of Counsel-- Final Conclusions--Do I regret having become a Collector ?--My Mistakes. Condition, with the majority of coin-collectors, does not rule at all. A man wants a particular piece for the sake of study or of possession; and so long as the type is there, he is satisfied. That is the general religion of amateurs. With a second section this quality becomes a merit; if the coin is a good one, so much the better, if it is not too dear. With halfa-dozen perchance in each generation, if with so many, the state is a postulate; the purchaser of the item depends on that above everything else; and the price is secondary. I have known very few persons in my time, who seemed thoroughly to understand what a fine coin was. It is not sufficient that it is well-preserved or even fleur de coin; for it may have been badly struck, or it...

Author : Lorna Hill
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781773231693
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Author : William Carew Hazlitt
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Confessions of a Collector written by William Carew Hazlitt and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-01 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Confessions of a Collector" by William Carew Hazlitt. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.