By Nicholas A. Basbanes
ISBN-10: 0979949157
ISBN-13: 9780979949159
Whilst first released, A mild Madness astounded and thrilled readers in regards to the ardour and cost a collector is prepared to make in pursuit of the booklet. Written earlier than the emergence of the net yet newly up to date for the twenty first Century reader, A light Madness captures that final second in time whilst creditors pursued their passions in dusty bookshops and highway stalls, excessive stakes auctions, and the subterfuge priceless of a real bibliomaniac. An event one of the stricken, A mild Madness is vividly anecdotal and carefully researched. Nicholas Basbanes brings an investigative reporter s middle to light up creditors prior and found in their pursuit of bibliomania. Now a undying vintage of accumulating, no lover of books can leave out A mild Madness.
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Driven as much by the “action” of collecting as he is by the acquisitions themselves, Zinman wasted no time pursuing new opportunities, focusing since then on a variety of other interests, including a hybrid gathering of vintage constitutions produced as bylaws for various social and civic organizations, numbering when we spoke early in 2012 at close to sixteen hundred items, proof positive that once a collector, always a collector. The creation of the Charles L. Blockson Afro-American Collection at Temple University in Philadelphia set the stage for an even more dramatic example of the phenomenon.
Cataloging-in-Publication Data is on file with the Library of Congress eISBN 978-0-9799491-6-6 Fine Books Press books are available for special promotions and premiums as well as for classroom instructions. com. First published in hardcover in 1995 by Henry Holt and Company First Fine Books Press Edition 2012 Printed in the United States of America First Fine Books Press Edition 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 A digital edition of this book is available online for popular e-book readers. Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following institutions for permission to quote from previously unpublished material: American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Massachusetts; William L.
Basbanes. 53. The Library of Richard Manney. Courtesy of Elliott Kaufman. Acknowledgments Roger E. Stoddard, curator of rare books at the Houghton Library, Harvard University, listened, offered wise counsel, and read substantial portions of the manuscript. For courtesies too numerous to enumerate: Bart Auerbach, bookseller, New York City; Sidney E. Berger, director of special collections, the University of California, Riverside; George B. Griffin, journalist, Douglas, Massachusetts; Priscilla Juvelis, bookseller, Cambridge, Massachusetts; and the late William A.
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