Ventures in Book Collecting

xvii, 356 pp. Includes black-and-white illustrations and plates. "One of the foremost bookmen of America here recounts the pleasures to be had in adventuring among books." CONTENTS: The Making of a Book-Collector; A Book-Hunter's Garner; Luck of a Book-Collector; Some Eighteenth-Century Books and Letters; Some Victorian Books and Letters; My Tennysons; My Stevensons; Letters of Notable Women; Index.