Books and readers - Book collecting - Bibliomania

Lot Comprises:

Terry Belanger, Lunacy and the Arrangement of Books, New Castle, DE, 1985, 8vo., publisher's printed wrappers

P.‐L. Jacob (Bibliophile) [pseud. of Paul Lacroix], Les Amateurs de vieux livres, Paris, 1880, 8vo., publisher's printed wrappers

F. Somner Merryweather, Bibliomania in the Middle Ages, London, 1933, 4to., publisher's blue cloth, number 27 of 750 copies

Nicholas A. Basbanes, A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes and the Eternal Passion for Books, Newark, 1995, 4to., publisher's brown boards, cloth spine, dust jacket

Nicholas A. Basbanes, Among the Gently Mad: Strategies and Perspective for the Book Hunter in the Twenty‐First Century, New York, Holt, 2002, 8vo., paperback

Eugene Field, The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac, New York, 1896, 8vo., publisher's blue cloth gilt

Holbrook Jackson, The Anatomy of Bibliomania, New York, 1950, large 8vo., blue cloth, dust jacket

Philomneste Junior, pseud. Gustave Brunet, Bibliomania in the Present Day in France and England, or Some account of celebrated recent sales, giving the prices at which the more important books were sold, together with the prices brought by the same books in previous sales, New York, J. W. Bouton, 1880, 8vo., original paper wrappers

Sold as a group, not subject to return.