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

Nicholas Basbanes

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

A Gentle Madness was a finalist for the 1995 National Book Critics Circle award. The passion to possess books has never been more widespread than it is today; indeed, obsessive book collecting remains the only hobby to have a disease named after it. A Gentle Madness is an adventure among the afflicted. Richly anecdotal and fully documented, it combines the perspective of historical research with the immediacy of investigative journalism. Above all, it is a celebration of books and the people who have revered, gathered, and preserved them over the centuries.

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Publisher
Holt Paperbacks
Year
1999
ISBN-13
9780805061765
Genre
Nonfiction
Topics
Book collectingBibliophiliaHistory of books

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