This Book-Collecting Game

410 pp. Includes color frontispiece and black-and-white illustrations. CONTENTS: Preliminary Canter; This Book-Collecting Game; The Books of My Boyhood; "When We Were Very Young"; The Book Itself; The Binding; The Auction Room; Caveat Emptor; "Abuses Stript and Whipt"; What to Collect--and Why; American Literature; Conversation in the Library at "Oak Knoll"; Humor and Pathos of Dr. Johnson's Dictionary; The Format of the English Novel; One Hundred Good Novels; Index.