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

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1995. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (23.5cm); brown paper-covered boards and black cloth backstrip, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; pictorial endpapers; dustjacket; xviii,638pp; illus. Tiny spot to upper edge of textblock, else Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $35.00), showing light wear to extremities, an old price sticker to rear panel, and some unobtrusive spotting and very mild discoloration to same; Very Good+. Basbanes's best-selling volume on book collectors and book collecting, a finalist for the National Book Award, and nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Non-Fiction. 85299. (Inventory #: 85299)