Bibliomania


The Man Who Loved Books Too Much: The True Story of a Thief, a Detective, and a World of Literary Obsession
A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion for Books
The Library at Night
Among the Gently Mad: Strategies and Perspectives for the Book Hunter in the 21st Century
Patience and Fortitude: Wherein a Colorful Cast of Determined Book Collectors, Dealers, and Librarians Go About the Quixotic Task of Preserving a Legacy
Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader
The Library Book
The Anatomy of Bibliomania
How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
I Will Judge You by Your Bookshelf
Packing My Library: An Elegy and Ten Digressions
How to Read and Why
Used and Rare: Travels in the Book World
The Eyre Affair (Thursday Next, #1)
A Passion for Books: A Book Lover's Treasury of Stories, Essays, Humor, Love and Lists on Collecting, Reading, Borrowing, Lending, Caring for, and Appreciating Books
O my darling books…how dear to me are they all! For have I not chosen them one by one, gathered them in with the sweat of my brow? I do love you all! It seems as if, by long and sweet companionship, you had become part of myself.
Antoine Issac, Baron Silvestre de Sacy

Well, I've always read in bed, in early years by candlelight, succeeded by lamplight, gaslight, and now electric light, and I'll probably be found dead there with some ponderous tome or book of poems on my chest and a seraphic smile of peace and contentment smoothing out all the ugliness of my visage... ...more
E. Norman Torry, Round My Library Fire: A Book about Books

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