After love, book collecting is the most exhilarating sport of all.

A.S.W. Rosenbach

A Book Hunter's Holiday

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Tsundoku Books

Author

A.S.W. Rosenbach

Source

A Book Hunter's Holiday

Medium

Essay

Language

English

Time

1936 1930s 20th century

Occupation

Scholar

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United States

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Citation

Rosenbach, A. S. W. A Book Hunter's Holiday. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1936.

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Time
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Roosevelt, Franklin D. "First Inaugural Address." 4 Mar. 1933, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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Roosevelt, Franklin D. "First Inaugral Address: Washington, DC, March 4, 1933." Great Speeches, edited by John Grafton. Dover, 1999.

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A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.

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Time
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Original Citation

Kafka, Franz. Letter to Oskar Pollak. 27 Jan. 1904.

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