CHAPTER I
ADVENTURES AMONG BOOKS
'Thou shalt make castels thanne in Spayne.' Chaucer.
t is a sad truth that bargains are met with more frequently in our youth than in our age. The sophist may argue that age begets philosophy, and that philosophy contemns all worldly things; yet certain it is that the book-hunter, one of the most philosophical of beings, remains on the look-out for bargains to the very end of his career....
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