The Man Who Loved Books Too Much

by Allison Hoover Bartlett

Nicholas Basbanes, Among the Gently Mad; A Gentle Madness; Patience and Fortitude; and A Splendor of Letters

  Philipp Blom, To Have and To Hold

  Rick Gekoski, Nabokov’s Butterfly: And Other Stories of Great Authors and Books

  Holbrook Jackson, The Anatomy of Bibliomania

  Robert H. Jackson and Carol Zeman Rothkopf, eds., Book Talk: Essays on Books, Booksellers, Collecting, and Special Collections

  Werner Muensterberger, Collecting: An Unruly Passion: Psychological Perspectives

  Harold Rabinowitz and Rob Kaplan, A Passion for Books: Book Lover’s Treasury of Stories, Essays, Humor, Love and Lists on Collecting, Reading, Borrowing, Lending, Caring for, and Appreciating Books

  William Targ, Bouillabaisse for Bibliophiles

  And this is an invaluable dictionary of terms:

  John Carter, ABC for Book Collectors