A Gentle Madness. Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion for Books.
New York: Henry Holt, (1995), Third Printing. octavo, cloth in dust jacket. 638 pp. Henry Holt, From the prospectus: "The passion to possess books has never been more widespread or popular than it is today; indeed, obsessive book collecting remains the only hobby to have a disease named after it..... More