The Autolycus of the BookstallsJ.M. Dent, 1902 - 193 psl. |
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... delights of book acquisition has been the aimless hunting with which I have turned over the piled - up treasures of the bookstalls , either ranged along the kerbstone in the poorer districts , or among the gregarious stores of old ...
... delights of book acquisition has been the aimless hunting with which I have turned over the piled - up treasures of the bookstalls , either ranged along the kerbstone in the poorer districts , or among the gregarious stores of old ...
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... delight in book- hunting as the term is generally understood , in having a " subject , " and seeking everywhere for anything bearing in any way upon it . The instinct of the hunting animal is brought into play and diverted - the seeker ...
... delight in book- hunting as the term is generally understood , in having a " subject , " and seeking everywhere for anything bearing in any way upon it . The instinct of the hunting animal is brought into play and diverted - the seeker ...
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... delight ; of neither of them would he have known anything had he not snapped them up from the seemingly dingy treasure - houses which he haunts . One is a massive volume of upwards of a thousand pages - a stinging commentary on poor ...
... delight ; of neither of them would he have known anything had he not snapped them up from the seemingly dingy treasure - houses which he haunts . One is a massive volume of upwards of a thousand pages - a stinging commentary on poor ...
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... delightful of works in that class of what might be called inconsequent books - books in which the author gossips on wisely , profoundly , humorously , by turns , on all manner of subjects as they arise . For the sake of those poor folk ...
... delightful of works in that class of what might be called inconsequent books - books in which the author gossips on wisely , profoundly , humorously , by turns , on all manner of subjects as they arise . For the sake of those poor folk ...
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... delight in buying an odd volume and haunting the stalls in a search for its companions . For a single penny , some eighteen years ago , I purchased Tennyson's " Queen Mary , " in the neat red cloth " Cabinet edition . " Thenceforth ...
... delight in buying an odd volume and haunting the stalls in a search for its companions . For a single penny , some eighteen years ago , I purchased Tennyson's " Queen Mary , " in the neat red cloth " Cabinet edition . " Thenceforth ...
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