Carrousel for bibliophiles : a treasury of tales, narratives, songs, epigrams and sundry curious studies relating to a noble theme / edited, with an introduction by William Targ.
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New York :
P.C. Duschnes,
1947.
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Table of Contents:
- The lost first folio / Edmund Lester Pearson
- O for a book! / Anonymous
- Books bound in human skin / Holbrook Jackson
- In a second-hand bookshop / Christopher Morley
- Sandy MacPherson: book collector / Newman Levy
- The bookworms / Robert Burns
- Why does nobody collect me? / Robert Benchley
- Books and friends / Ben Jonson
- The books of my boyhood / A. Edward Newton
- Folio old calf: a fairytale book for booksellers and collectors / Vincent Starrett
- Symptoms of the disease / Thomas Frognall Dibdin
- A Canterbury pilgrim / Geoffrey Chaucer
- On getting books into the home / Ben Abramson
- Psalmanazar the fabulous forger / Alan Devoe
- Famous book collectors / Irving Browne
- Bibliotaphs and book misers / Holbrook Jackson
- Notes on bibliokleptomania / Lawrence S. Thompson
- "Mother Goose melodies" and their author / James O'Donnelll Bennett
- Cacoëthes scribendi / Oliver Wendell Holmes
- Tom Folio / Joseph Addison
- A Blockhead's bookshelf / Walter Hart Blumenthal
- Come over and stay till Domesday / Charles Reade
- Ballade of an old friend / Chrisopher Morley
- The Tractate Middoth / M.R. James
- Books / Lizette Woodworth Reese
- The first American humorist / James henry Thompson
- On Andrew Toraqueau / Anonymous
- Samuel Johnson and his dictionary / John T. Winterich
- Naughty, naughty! / Leo M. Alpert
- The ideal book or book beautiful / T.J. Cobden-Sanderson
- One hundred good novels / A. Edward Newton
- Early American book auctions / George L. McKay
- Oneirocritica Americana / Harry B. Weiss
- In retrospect / Bruce Rogers
- The Philobiblon: a selection / Richard De Bury
- The fine art of forgery / Vincent Starrett
- The temptation of Friar Gonsol / Eugene Field
- Lost but not forgotten / Clip Boutell
- On getting into print / H.L. Mencken
- Reperusal / Chrisopher Morley
- Did Mark Twain write "Alice in wonderland"? / George Lanning
- On reading old books / William Hazlitt
- Men of letters / Alexander Smith
- Some curious changes in book titles / Ellery Queen
- The Caveat Book Shop -catalog of rare books / Francis P. Farquhar.