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

Category: Law, Science Fiction & Fantasy
Author: Pamela Clare
Publisher: Jen Green, Harper Lee
Published: 2018-09-07
Writer: Isaac Asimov
Language: Russian, Italian, Chinese (Simplified), Polish, Hebrew
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A GENTLE MADNESS | Kirkus Reviews - This absorbing volume traces ``the cycle of books among collectors, libraries, and dealers,'' seeking to shed new light on that ``gentlest of infirmities,'' bibliomania. With great aplomb, syndicated book columnist Basbanes tours his reader through an intriguing gallery of case studies. In a medieval poem, Basbanes notes, bibliophiles were assigned a place of honor on the ship of fools. Yet the book lovers seem to have known where they were going. A fascinating account of the great 17th-century diarist Samuel Pepys's collection establishes a predominant motive: creating memorials to the life of the mind. Describing collections now housed in great American research libraries, Basbanes tells the moving tale of the grieving mother who endowed Harvard's Widener Library in memory of a son who went down on the Titanic with a rare edition of Francis Bacon's essays in his pocket. Other ``obsessed amateurs'' include Ruth Baldwin, who fiercely guarded access to her superb collection of children's books at the Universit

A Gentle Madness - Mr. Basbanes talked about his recent book, [A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes and the Eternal Passion for Books], published by Henry Holt and Company. The book focuses on the history of book collecting and preserving over the past 2500 years. It also covers the book collecting culture, including rare book buying and selling, through interviews with various book collectors.

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