Confessions of a Tax Collector

Confessions of a Tax Collector
Author: Richard Yancey
Publisher: Zondervan
Total Pages: 400
Release: 2009-03-17
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0061740756

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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.

The Confessions of a Collector

The Confessions of a Collector
Author: William Carew Hazlitt
Publisher: London : Ward & Downey
Total Pages: 390
Release: 1897
Genre: Book collecting
ISBN:

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White Spines

White Spines
Author: NICHOLAS. ROYLE
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2020-08-15
Genre:
ISBN: 9781784632137

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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.

The Confessions of a Collector

The Confessions of a Collector
Author: William Carew Hazlitt
Publisher: Theclassics.Us
Total Pages: 70
Release: 2013-09
Genre:
ISBN: 9781230210650

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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...

The Confessions of a Collector

The Confessions of a Collector
Author: William Carew Hazlitt
Publisher: DigiCat
Total Pages: 214
Release: 2022-08-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

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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.

Confessions of a Collector

Confessions of a Collector
Author: Hunter Davies
Publisher: Quercus
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2009
Genre: Collectors and collecting
ISBN: 9781847246042

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An entertaining guide to how to collect a wide range of items - crammed with anecdotes, stories and advice gleaned from a lifetime of collecting.

Confessions of a Literary Archaeologist

Confessions of a Literary Archaeologist
Author: Carlton Lake
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Total Pages: 236
Release: 1990
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN: 9780811211307

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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.

The Confessions of a Collector - The Original Classic Edition

The Confessions of a Collector - The Original Classic Edition
Author: William Carew Hazlitt
Publisher: Emereo Publishing
Total Pages: 102
Release: 2013-03-13
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781486496907

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Finally available, a high quality book of the original classic edition of The Confessions of a Collector. It was previously published by other bona fide publishers, and is now, after many years, back in print. This is a new and freshly published edition of this culturally important work by William Carew Hazlitt, which is now, at last, again available to you. Get the PDF and EPUB NOW as well. Included in your purchase you have The Confessions of a Collector in EPUB AND PDF format to read on any tablet, eReader, desktop, laptop or smartphone simultaneous - Get it NOW. Enjoy this classic work today. These selected paragraphs distill the contents and give you a quick look inside The Confessions of a Collector: Look inside the book: My Antecedents—How and Whence the Passion came to Me—My Father’s People—And My Mother’s—My Uncle—His Genuine Feeling for what was Old and Curious—A Disciple of Charles Lamb—Books My First Love—My Courtship of Them under My Father’s Roof—My Clandestine Acquisitions—A Small Bibliographical Romance—My Uncle as a Collector—Some of His Treasures—His Choice, and how He differed from My Father—An Adventure of the Latter at a Bookstall—Bargains—The Author moralises upon Them—A New View—I begin to be a Bibliographer—Venice strikes My Fancy as a Subject for Treatment—My Want of Acquaintance with It—Mr Quaritch and Mr Ruskin do not encourage Me—I resolve to proceed—I teach Myself what was Requisite to enable Me to do so—Some of My Experiences—Molini the Elder—The London Library Forty Years Ago—What became of My Collections for the Work—Preparing for Another and Greater Scheme, 1 ...My Antecedents—How and Whence the Passion came to Me—My Father’s People—And My Mother’s—My Uncle—His Genuine Feeling for what was Old and Curious—A Disciple of Charles Lamb—Books My First Love—My Courtship of Them under My Father’s Roof—My Clandestine Acquisitions—A Small Bibliographical Romance—My Uncle as a Collector—Some of His Treasures—His Choice, and how He differed from My Father—An Adventure of the Latter at a Bookstall—Bargains—The Author moralises upon Them—A New View—I begin to be a Bibliographer—Venice strikes My Fancy as a Subject for Treatment—My Want of Acquaintance with It—Mr Quaritch and Mr Ruskin do not encourage Me—I resolve to proceed—I teach Myself what was Requisite to enable Me to do so—Some of My Experiences—Molini the Elder—The London Library Forty Years Ago—What became of My Collections for the Work—Preparing for Another and Greater Scheme. About William Carew Hazlitt, the Author: He published further contributions to the subject in Bibliographical Collections and Notes on Early English Literature made during the years 1893-1903 (1903), and a Manual for the Collector and Amateur of Old English Plays ... ...London: Reeves and Turner, 1876. detailed bibliographical entries on many early English printed books; followed by Bibliographical Collections and Notes on Early English Literature, 1474-1700, 2nd series (London: Quaritch, 1882); 3rd series (London: Quaritch, 1892); 4th series (London: Quaritch, 1903).

A Pound of Paper

A Pound of Paper
Author: John Baxter
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 436
Release: 2005-04
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN: 9780312317263

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Originally published: London: Doubleday, 2002.