bibliophile

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To say that an editio princeps has value only for the bibliophile is to admit that all values are personal, as are all thoughts and all feelings, all goodness and all love FOR REFERENCE Robertson Smith, The Religion of the Semites (A.

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  • Mind you, you'd have to be a real bibliophile or scholar to actually want to own this. —  F ;SF; - vol 101 issue 01 - July 2001
  • Science Fiction Magazine Story Index, 1926-1995, by Terry A. Murray, McFarland ; Co., 1999, $65 This is a definite must for any serious sf/f bibliophile or library. —  F ;SF; - vol 097 issue 04-05 - October-November 1999
  • Suddenly become a bibliophile or Hebraist, he ordered a package made of the dead man's books and carried them off to his apartment. —  EQMM,August2008
  • Even the most avid bibliophile is a customer first and a bibliophile second and to expect them to ignore the great strides taken forward in other areas of bookselling, from the pile'em high bestseller approach of Waterstones et al to the long tail of Amazon is to push back against the tide with an old mop. —  Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz
  • While cutting old books apart might seem a bit sacrilegious to a bibliophile, the results are so delicate and beautiful - so suggestive of the other worlds that good books make real - that you'll easily forgive the iconoclasm. —  The Millions
 

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  1. from French bibliophile, from Greek βιβλίον, book, + φίλος, loving.
 

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/ˈbɪblɪəfɪl/
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