Publishers Weekly
"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." 07/03/1995Washington Post Book World
"Nicholas A. Basbanes has compiled a wonderful gallery of modern eccentrics, isolates, charmers and visionaries." - Michael Dirda 07/30/1995 New York Times Book Review
"...an impressive achievement in its compilation of vast information, as well as instructive and interesting." - Philip Kopper 08/20/1995 Kirkus
" ...the joy Basbanes takes in his abundance of anecdotes captures the spirit that truly links the collectors whom he treats--the spirit that prizes and passes on its heritage not just of using books, but also of acquiring them." 06/01/1995 |
