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A Gentle Madness:
Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion for Books

by Nicholas A. Basbanes

ISBN 0805061762 / 9780805061765 / 0-8050-6176-2
Publisher Henry Holt & Co
Language English
Edition Softcover
List price $20.00
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What a delightful book about books and people who love books! As a second generation bibliophile, a possible bibliomane who had several people move out of my house a year ago because they erroneously believed that my books were taking over the household, and a devout employee of "Earth's Biggest Bookstore," I can vouch that Basbanes accurately describes the glorious role of book collectors as archivists of human knowledge, and -- in continual counterpoint -- sometimes pathologically obsessed book junkies. [via]