Bibliomania

October 6, 2013

“Literally, a madness for books. A bibliomaniac is a book-collector with a slightly wild look in his eye.” -from John Carter and Nicolas Barker’s ABC for Book Collectors.

Barker will be here at Wells this Thursday!

We will be posting more exciting references to books throughout the week!

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