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  E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/46935873 Title: The anatomy of bibliomania Author: Holbrook Jackson Publisher: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2001. ISBN/ISSN: 0252070437 9780252070433 OCLC:46935873

  
  

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The anatomy of bibliomania

Author:	Holbrook Jackson
Publisher:	Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2001.
Edition/Format:	Print book : State or province government publication : English : 1st Illinois pbk. [ed.]View all editions and formats
Summary:	Jackson inspects the allure of books, their curative and restorative properties, and the passion for them that leads to bibliomania ("a genial mania, less harmful than the sanity of the sane"). His commentary addresses why we read, where we read (on journeys, at mealtimes, on the toilet -- this has "a long but mostly unrecorded history"--In bed, and in prison), and what happens to us when we read. He touches on bindings, bookworms, libraries, and the sport of book hunting, as well as the behavior of borrowers, embezzlers, thieves, and collectors. Francis Bacon, Anatole France, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Leigh Hunt, Marcel Proust, Ralph Waldo Emerson, William Shakespeare, and scores of other luminaries chime in on books and their love for them.  Read more...
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Subjects	Bibliomania. Book collecting. Books and reading. View all subjects
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