Opinion - A New Chapter For Rare Book Collecting

Wednesday 19th June

A New Chapter For Rare Book Collecting

Posted at 7:34AM Thursday 29 Mar 2012

Book dealing was once, as Graham Greene told me, a 'treasure hunt'. But the internet has made it all about pots of gold

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