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I had two copies and a dire need of shelf-room, but I felt like a traitor selling it.

'The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society' 2008

MOST book-collectors embark upon their life-long hobby without any clearly defined scheme of collecting, buying just those books which take their fancy, and in many cases not realising that they have caught the dread contagion of bibliomania until they suddenly find that more shelf-room is required for their books, and that the expenditure upon their hobby is growing out of all proportion to their means.

The Book-Hunter at Home P. B. M. Allan

The best room in it was the library, and here, for the first time in his career, Field had the opportunity to provide shelf-room for his books and cabinets for his curios.

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

It publishes an excellently-got-up monthly journal of its own, which now claims shelf-room in the philatelic library for ten stately annual volumes.

Stamp Collecting as a Pastime Edward James Nankivell 1878

The library still exists, and at the present moment gives shelf-room to 1,800 MSS. and more than 41,700 printed books.

Illuminated Manuscripts John William Bradley 1873

Even where shelf-room and funds are forthcoming, there is slight danger of any large percentage of recent literature being added to the stores of a judicious householder.

The Book-Collector A General Survey of the Pursuit and of those who have engaged in it at Home and Abroad from the Earliest Period to the Present Time William Carew Hazlitt 1873

The bookcases have been altered and patched more than once, in order to provide additional shelf-room; but at the bottom of the more modern superstructure part at least of the original medieval desk may be detected.

The Care of Books John Willis Clark 1871

In 1739, when additional shelf-room was required, and the roof was in need of repair, it was agreed to construct the present flat ceiling, and to gain thereby wall-space of sufficient height to accommodate 20,000 additional books.

The Care of Books John Willis Clark 1871

Let us now consider whether the library as thus arranged would have had sufficient shelf-room.

The Care of Books John Willis Clark 1871

They will be also one of our chief expenses, for these journals must be bound in volumes and they require a great amount of shelf-room; all this, in addition to the cost of subscription for those which are not furnished us gratuitously.

Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851