Bibliomaniac

How many Effing years have we have email and NOW they invent this? site to see • Threadbanger has a bunch of things you can do with vinyl LPs besides play them, i'm kinda over the things you can do with books beside read them. don't forget • April 1st is Edible Book Day kiddies. obit of note • Henry Bemis Hero Bibliomaniac at 97. from Fine Books Blog. at

Archive 2009-03-01 2009

How many Effing years have we have email and NOW they invent this? site to see • Threadbanger has a bunch of things you can do with vinyl LPs besides play them, i'm kinda over the things you can do with books beside read them. don't forget • April 1st is Edible Book Day kiddies. obit of note • Henry Bemis Hero Bibliomaniac at 97. from Fine Books Blog. at

Bibliophile Bullpen 2009

Bibliophobe, a hater of books: Bibliotaph, a burier of books -- one who hides or conceals them: Bibliomaniac, or bibliomane, one who has a mania or passion for collecting books.

A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries Ainsworth Rand Spofford

The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac (1896) chronicles no passions more violent than the desire for books, but it chronicles that desire in forms as diversified as Field’s own career as a collector, and in a tone as piquant and whimsical as that of his own personality.

Chapter 9. The Eighties and Their Kin. Section 1. Varied Types 1921

No other work that he had done so completely satisfied him as “The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac.”

Eugene Field A Study In Heredity And Contradictions Thompson, Slason 1901

Out of the comedy of his nature came the sweetness of his work, and out of his association with all conditions of his fellow-men came that insight into the springs of human passion and action that leavens all that he wrote, from “The Robin and the Violet” (1884) down to “The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac” (1895).

Eugene Field A Study In Heredity And Contradictions Thompson, Slason 1901

It was necessary, he thought, to rehabilitate himself, and a deep-laid plot, to which the Bibliomaniac readily lent ear, was the result of his reflections.

Coffee and Repartee John Kendrick Bangs 1892

"You may think you are very funny," retorted the Bibliomaniac.

Coffee and Repartee John Kendrick Bangs 1892

"I agree with the Bibliomaniac," said the School-master.

Coffee and Repartee John Kendrick Bangs 1892

"Change the subject," said the Bibliomaniac, curtly.

Coffee and Repartee John Kendrick Bangs 1892