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Sport of Books
Mason, Harold T. | August 25, 1956 issue

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This article discusses the book "Bouillabaisse for Bibliophiles," edited with an Introduction and notes by William Targ. John Carter defines this happy breed in the initial essay, describing at some length the infinite variety of book collectors, defending them from the charge of bibliomania and explaining the real debt owed them by scholarship generally. In a charmingly modest case history, Wilmarth Lewis in "Collector's Progress," tells of the beginnings of his own interest in collecting which resulted eventually in the formation of a world-famous collection centering around Horace Walpole and the Strawberry Hill Press.

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COLLECTORS & collecting; BOOK collectors; BOOK selection; TARG, William; LEWIS, Wilmarth; WALPOLE, Horace
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