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> [“On a spring day in 1988…a Massachusetts man who collected books about local history was rummaging through a bin in a New Hampshire antiques barn when something caught his eye. Beneath texts on fertilizers and farm machines lay a slim,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/allison-hoover-bartlett/on-a-spring-day-in-1988-a-massachusetts-man-who-collected-books-about/)

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## More by Allison Hoover Bartlett

> [“There was a pair of books, one by Hemingway, another by Thomas Wolfe. Each had written a long inscription to the other. A knowledgeable…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/allison-hoover-bartlett/there-was-a-pair-of-books-one-by-hemingway-another-by-thomas-wolfe/)

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> [“The difference between a person who appreciates books, even loves them, and a collector is not only degrees of affection, I realized. For the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/allison-hoover-bartlett/the-difference-between-a-person-who-appreciates-books-even-loves-them/)

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> [“On a spring day in 1988…a Massachusetts man who collected books about local history was rummaging through a bin in a New Hampshire antiques…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/allison-hoover-bartlett/on-a-spring-day-in-1988-a-massachusetts-man-who-collected-books-about/)

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> [“I valued that half-dream state of being lost in a book so much that I limited the number of pages I let myself read…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/allison-hoover-bartlett/i-valued-that-half-dream-state-of-being-lost-in-a-book-so-much-that-i/)

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> [“A book is much more than a delivery vehicle for its contents.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/allison-hoover-bartlett/a-book-is-much-more-than-a-delivery-vehicle-for-its-contents/)

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> [“After all, much of the fondness avid readers, and certainly collectors, have for their books is related to the books' physical bodies. As much…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/allison-hoover-bartlett/after-all-much-of-the-fondness-avid-readers-and-certainly-collectors/)

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> [“It had a crisp paper jacket, unlike the paper-covered library books I was used to, and the way the pages parted, I could tell…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/allison-hoover-bartlett/it-had-a-crisp-paper-jacket-unlike-the-paper-covered-library-books-i/)

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