Collecting


To Have and to Hold
The Man Who Loved Books Too Much: The True Story of a Thief, a Detective, and a World of Literary Obsession
ABC for Book Collectors
The Word Collector
The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Family's Century of Art and Loss
Used and Rare: Travels in the Book World
In Flagrante Collecto (Caught in the Act of Collecting)
Collector's Encyclopedia of Depression Glass, Eighteenth Edition
In a Jar
The Cultures of Collecting
The Amenities of Book Collecting And Kindred Affections
Stuff: Compulsive Hoarding and the Meaning of Things
Do Not Sell at Any Price: The Wild, Obsessive Hunt for the World's Rarest 78rpm Records
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
Star Wars Super Collector's Wish Book: Identification & Values
Randy O. Frost
This has led some scholars to suggest that collecting is a way of managing fears about death by creating a form of immortality. This is consistent with a popular theory in social psychology called the terror management theory (TMT). TMT grows out of an existential predicament--that people, like animals, are mortal. But unlike animals, we are aware of our own mortality. Knowledge of the inevitability of death and its unpredictability can produce paralyzing fear. To cope with this potential terror ...more
Randy O. Frost, Stuff: Compulsive Hoarding and the Meaning of Things

Michael Bassey Johnson
Dreams are the museum for artists.
Michael Bassey Johnson, The Oneironaut’s Diary

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