The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781518720109)

The determination to found a story or a series of sketches on the delights, adventures, and misadventures connected with bibliomania did not come impulsively to my brother. For many years, in short during the greater part of nearly a quarter of a century of journalistic work, he had celebrated in prose and verse, and always in his happiest and most delightful vein, the pleasures of book-hunting. Himself an indefatigable collector of books, the possessor of a library as valuable as it was interesting, a library containing volumes obtained only at the cost of great personal sacrifice, he was in the most active sympathy with the disease called bibliomania, and knew, as few comparatively poor men have known, the half-pathetic, half-humorous side of that incurable mental infirmity.

Author: Eugene Field
ISBN-10: 1518720102
ISBN-13: 9781518720109
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 11/01/2015
Pages: 66
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.22lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.14d