“There was a pair of books, one by Hemingway, another by Thomas Wolfe. Each had written a long inscription to the other.… — Allison Hoover Bartlett Books Copy Share Image
“The difference between a person who appreciates books, even loves them, and a collector is not only degrees of affection, I realized.… — Allison Hoover Bartlett Books Copy Share Image
“On a spring day in 1988…a Massachusetts man who collected books about local history was rummaging through a bin in a New… — Allison Hoover Bartlett Allan poe Copy Share Image
“I valued that half-dream state of being lost in a book so much that I limited the number of pages I let… — Allison Hoover Bartlett Books Copy Share Image
“A book is much more than a delivery vehicle for its contents.” — Allison Hoover Bartlett Artifacts Copy Share Image
“After all, much of the fondness avid readers, and certainly collectors, have for their books is related to the books' physical bodies.… — Allison Hoover Bartlett Book Copy Share Image
“It had a crisp paper jacket, unlike the paper-covered library books I was used to, and the way the pages parted, I… — Allison Hoover Bartlett Books Copy Share Image
