Book Madness: A Story of Book Collectors in America by Denise Gigante

Book Madness: A Story of Book Collectors in America

Denise Gigante

400 pages first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction biography history informative inspiring medium-paced
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The fascinating history of American bookishness as told through the sale of Charles Lamb’s library in 1848 Charles Lamb’s library—a heap of sixty scruffy old books singed with smoke, soaked with gin, sprinkled with crumbs, stripped of illustration...

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