Author Signatures Quotes

“My advice to any one who may be temped by some volume with an inscription of the author on its fly-leaf or title-page is, 'Yield with coy submission' — and at once. While such books make frightful inroads on one's bank account, I have regretted only my economies, never my extravagances.”
― A. Edward Newton, The Amenities of Book Collecting And Kindred Affections