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When we are collecting books, we are collecting happiness.

Some delightful inscriptions are found in second-hand books. One, the most famous of all, may be fou...

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Here dwell together still two men of noteWho never lived and so can never die:How very near they see...

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Grant Allen once said that an Englishman's idea of God was another Englishman twelve feet high, and ...

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Born in a Bookshop: Chapters from the Chicago Renascence

I hold a theory that, sooner or later, if a man but live long enough, certain books destined for his...

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Vincent Starrett

Writer

Born: 1886-10-26

Died: 1974-01-05

Charles Vincent Emerson Starrett (26 October 1886 - 5 January 1974), known as Vincent Starrett, was an American writer and newspaperman and a co-founder of the Baker Street Irregulars.More