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  • Title A Gentle Madness Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion for Books
  • Author Basbanes, Nicholas A.
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  • Publisher Henry Holt and Company, New York
  • Date 1996
  • ISBN 9780805048261
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