book-collecting

In Louis Bayard's historical whodunit "The School of Night" Henry Holt, 338 pages, $25 , Tudor scholar Henry Cavendish succumbs to the terrible and all-consuming madness of book-collecting.

Trying to Keep Parallel Narratives on the Rails Sam Sacks 2011

He and his wife Patricia wrote a price guide that was a book-collecting bible before the internet took over pricing for the majority of modern first titles.

A signed First of Lord of the Flies on the floor close by his bullet-riddled body 2009

He and his wife Patricia wrote a price guide that was a book-collecting bible before the internet took over pricing for the majority of modern first titles.

2009 December 03 | NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS 2009

Besides, breaking up books is now viewed with distaste by the book-collecting community.

Stalking a Masterpiece Ellen Gamerman 2010

Tales From Beyond is an anthology of four stories that begins with a couple visiting an old bookstore to find a gift for their book-collecting friend.

Tales From Beyond (2004) 2010

All the copies in front of me now date from my thankfully abandoned book-collecting phase of life.

Peter Stothard - Times Online - WBLG: 2009

All the copies in front of me now date from my thankfully abandoned book-collecting phase of life.

Books 2009

All the copies in front of me now date from my thankfully abandoned book-collecting phase of life.

A lesbian, a bi-sexual, a wrist-slasher or a good laugh? 2009

The atrocities of book-collecting and kindred afflictions, by Collin Ford

OpEdNews - Quicklink: It's the Government's Job to Shake You Down 2008

Hunt helps us to recognize a paradox that recent historians of book-collecting underplay, which is that the book-collectors 'obsessive acquisitiveness not only vexed their contemporaries but also beguiled them, as the undertone of affection in period commentaries hints.

"Wedded to Books': Bibliomania and the Romantic Essayists 2004