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Condition: Good Cover: some stains; light wear at edges, corners curling, spine worst affected. Half-title has erased pencil inscriptions. Pages browning but otherwise clean. Content:
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Quote from this book "RICHARD HEBER, b. London, 1773. Anyone who has been privileged to attend a meeting of a certain famous American bibliophile club on the East Coast realizes in a flash that a majority of the tuxedo-clad gentlemen gathered to discuss their common passion - book collecting - is rich, recondite, Republican and remarkably gay. Their ancestor of ancestors was English book collector Richard Heber, who made a habit of attending continental book sales, purchasing sometimes single volumes, sometimes whole libraries. He did not confine himself to the purchase of a single copy of a work. 'No gentleman,' he remarked, 'can be without three copies of a book, one for show, one for use and one for borrowers.' He is known to have owned 150,000 volumes and probably many more. And why is Heber included in this book? Because he was forced to leave England in exile after public disclosure of his 'unnatural acts,' that's why. One wonders whether aristocratic Richard licked his index finger whenever he turned over a page!" entry for 5 January Secondhand booksellers |
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