The Groaning Shelf and Other Instances of Book Lovey
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Pradeep Sebastian
Hachette India
295 pages, Rs 395
Notes from a bibliophile on the romance of book collecting, the beauty of dust jackets, the lure of rare and first editions, the art of browsing in second-hand bookshops, the bibliomania of book thieves, movies about books, the inner life of a reader, the pleasures of bibliophily and of course, favourites—themes that have seldom been explored in Indian writing with such cultish devotion.
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