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"Reading this prodigiously researched, often absorbing tome, one can almost hear the cries of dozens of smaller books begging to be let out...[Basbanes'] constant theme, effectively hammered home, is that collectors, whatever their vanity or skulduggery, have been responsible for the preservation of knowledge that might otherwise have been lost."Basbanes, Nicholas A. is the author of 'Gentle Madness Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion for Books' with ISBN 9780805061765 and ISBN 0805061762.
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