A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion for Books

by Nicholas Basbanes

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  ——— . Rosenbach Redux: Further Book Adventures in England and Ireland. Philadelphia: Rosenbach Museum and Library, 1989.

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  ——— . Book-Collecting as a Hobby: In a Series of Letters to Everyman. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1974.

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  ——— . The Greatest Book in the World and Other Papers. Boston: Little, Brown, 1925.

  ——— . A Magnificent Farce and Other Diversions of a Book-Collector. Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1921.

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  ——— . The Magic of the Book: More Reminiscences and Adventures of a Bookman. Boston: Little, Brown, 1930.

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  ——— , ed. A Short Title List of the Books in the Chapin Library, Williams College. Portland, Me.: Southworth-Anthoensen Press; London: Bernard Quaritch Ltd., 1939.

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  ——— . The Wonder and the Glory: Confessions of a Southern Bibliophile. New York: Thistle Press, 1962.

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�� . “D. H. Lawrence at Texas: A Memoir,” in The Library Chronicle of the University of Texas, Austin, Texas: University of Texas, new ser. no. 34, 23–38.

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  ——— . The Unpublishable Memoirs. New York: Mitchell Kennerley, 1917.

  ——— . The Collected Catalogues of Dr. A. S. W. Rosenbach, 1904–1951. 10 vols. New York: Arno Press, 1967.

  Rosenthal, Robert. “Three Early Book Collectors of Chicago.” Library Quarterly 53 (1983): 371–83.

  Rosenwald, Lessing J. Recollections of a Collector. Jenkintown, Pa.: Alverthorpe Gallery, 1976.

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  ——— . Old and Rare: Thirty Years in the Book Business. New York: Abner Schram; London: George Prior, 1974.

  Russell, John. “All Booked Up.” Vogue, February 1992, 230–35.

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  A Salute to Clifton Waller Barrett on His Eightieth from Friends and Admirers. Charlottesville, Va.: University of Virginia, 1981.

  Sandburg, Carl. Lincoln Collector: The Story of the Oliver R. Barrett Lincoln Collection. 1949. Reprint. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1960.

  Sander, Max. “Bibliomania.” Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology 31 (1943): 155–61.

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  Sawyer, Charles J., and F. J. Harvey Darton. English Books, 1475–1900: A Signpost for Collectors. 2 vols. London: Chas. J. Sawyer, 1927.

  Schad, Robert O. “Henry Edwards Huntington: The Founder and the Library.” The Huntington Library Bulletin, no. 1 (May 1931): 3–32.

  Schomburg, Arthur A. “The Negro Digs Up His Past.” In The New Negro: An Interpretation. Edited by Alain Locke. 1925. Reprint. New York: Arno Press and the New York Times, 1968.

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  Shirley, Betsy B. Read Me a Story, Show Me a Book: American Children’s Literature 1690–1988. From the Collection of Betsy Beinecke Shirley. New Haven: Yale University, 1991. Catalogue of an exhibition at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, October-December 1991, curated by Betsy B. Shirley.

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  ——— . More of the Rare Book Game. Philadelphia: Holmes Publishing, 1988.

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  Sinnette, Elinor Des Verney. Arthur Alfonso Schomburg: Black Bibliophile and Collector. New York: New York Public Library; Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1989.

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  ——— . First Nights and First Editions. Boston: Little, Brown, 1931.

  Sotheby’s. Catalogue of Rare First Editions of English Literature of the 16th to the 20th Century, Blockbooks, Incunabula and Early Continental Printing, Important Scientific Books, Autograph Letters of the Renaissance and Literary Manuscripts, the Majority Deriving From the Celebrated Collection of the late Louis H. Silver of Chicago, the Property of The Newberry Library, Chicago (Sold by Order of the Trustees). London: Sotheby’s, 1965.

  ——— . The Celebrated Library of Harrison D. Horblit Esq., Removed from Ridgefield, Connecticut. 2 vols. London: Sotheby’s, 1974.

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  ——— . Incunables from the Schøyen Collection. New York: Sotheby’s, 1991.

  ——— . The Library of H. Bradley Martin. 9 vols. New York: Sotheby’s, 1989–1990.

  ——— . The Library of Richard Manney. New York: Sotheby’s, 1991.

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  Starr, Kevin. Material Dreams: Southern California Through the 1920s. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990. Discusses Jake Zeitlin and the Los Angeles rare-book trade.

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  ——— . “Teaching the History of Books at Harvard, 1910–1987/88.” Paper delivered at the American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Massachusetts, June 13, 1987. Typescript available at Houghton Library. Includes detailed information on Fine Arts 5e, the book-collecting course taught by George Parker Winship, 1915–1931.

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  ——— . Owen D. Young: Book Collector. New York: New York Public Library, 1974. Introduction by Joseph Young Case.

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  ——— , ed. Bouillabaisse for Bibliophiles. Cleveland and New York: World, 1955.

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  ——— . Certain Small Works. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1980.

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