book-hunter

• “Not only was Poggio the greatest book-hunter of his era; he also wielded one of its wickedest pens, satirizing the vices of the clergy and lambasting rival scholars in his Ciceronian Latin.”

  The Wall Street Journal: 'Stop Me if You've Heard This: A History and Philosophy of Jokes'

• “Given my bibliographic background I don't mind being a book-hunter or library antiquarian, but I don't think that should be a necessary tool for all seminarians!”

  Philocrites: Reading your way to Unitarian Universalist ordination.

• “And the question, where in an extensive collection, a book-hunter admitted to freely range over all the shelves, and a stranger to the minute classification of books, has misplaced the missing volumes, is an insoluble problem, except by hunting over or handling the entire library.”

  A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries

• “The stock in these shops is constantly changing, thus adding a piquant and sometimes exciting element to the book-hunter, who is wise in proportion as he seizes quickly upon all opportunities of new "finds" by frequent visits.”

  A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries

• “Part of the secret lay in this idea: to be a good book-hunter one must not be too dainty; one must not be afraid of soiling one's hands.”

  The Bibliotaph and Other People

• “He was the only man I have known, whether book-hunter or layman, who could sleep peacefully upon a supper of cucumbers and milk.”

  The Bibliotaph and Other People

• “It is rare, so rare that Boswell's latest biographer speaks of it as the 'forlorn hope of the book-hunter,' though he doubts not that copies of it are lurking in some private collection.”

  The Bibliotaph and Other People

• “Let the book-hunter inwardly digest the following plain tale of a clergyman and a book of plays.”

  The Bibliotaph and Other People

• “It is generally classed among the failings of the book-hunter that he looks only to the far past, and disregards the contemporary and the recent.”

  The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author

• “The mercenary spirit must not be admitted to a share in the enjoyments of the book-hunter.”

  The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author

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