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Notes from a bibliophile on the romance of book collecting, the beauty of dust
jackets, the lure of rare and first editions, the art of browsing in second-hand
bookshops, the bibliomania of book thieves, movies about books, the inner life
of a reader, the pleasures of bibliophily, and of course, favourites. The
delightful genre of books about books which looks at the book as physical
object, as a crafted work of art where its bibliographical aspects – binding,
typography, edition, condition, rarity – matter as much as the literary content
inside, has seldom been explored in Indian writing with the cultic devotion
displayed over these little
Notes from a bibliophile on the romance of book collecting, the beauty of dust
jackets, the lure of rare and first editions, the art of browsing in second-hand
bookshops, the bibliomania of book thieves, movies about books, the inner life
of a reader, the pleasures of bibliophily, and of course, favourites. The
delightful genre of books about books which looks at the book as physical
object, as a crafted work of art where its bibliographical aspects – binding,
typography, edition, condition, rarity – matter as much as the literary content
inside, has seldom been explored in Indian writing with the cultic devotion
displayed over these little