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Anthropodermic bibliopegy had been a specter on the shelves of libraries, museums, and private collections for over a century. Human skin books -mostly made by 19th century doctor bibliophiles - are the only books that are controversial not for the ideas they contain, but for the physical makeup of the object. They repel and fascinate, and their very ordinary appearances mask the horror inherent in their creation.
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― Dark Archives: A Librarian's Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin
― Dark Archives: A Librarian's Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin
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Okay, so I know I’m not the last bookseller. People still sell books. But I’m one of the last of a certain kind of bookseller. The kind that for six hundred years rooted around basements, book bins, and bookstores looking for, sometimes, rare books or, more often, secondhand books. They were the hunter-gatherers of the book business, the travelers and pick-ers, who spent their lives saving books that might otherwise have been lost. They are, now, nearly extinct, driven to ground by the machines—
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― The Last Bookseller: A Life in the Rare Book Trade
― The Last Bookseller: A Life in the Rare Book Trade
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