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What I collect? I blush to use the term…scrounge is more to the point, since collecting might imply that I am more knowledgeable than I am about things such as editions and conditions. <\/em><\/p>\n <\/em><\/p>\n Not at all, my dear!\u00a0 Knowledge of editions and conditions is NOT necessary to be a true book collector.\u00a0 In fact, it sounds to me as if you have some very interesting collections.<\/p>\n I did study the finer points of bibliography in graduate school and apprenticed as a book collector under one of the finest bookmen in the country<\/p>\n (see\u00a0http:\/\/www.homeschoolblogger.com\/EclecticBibliophile\/6144\/<\/a>), but only my Eudora Welty collection (and it’s a beaut) involves such niceties.<\/p>\n So when I write here about collecting books, I generally mean collecting in the sense of acquiring and accumulating books you love.<\/p>\n Thanks for stopping by and for raising this issue!<\/p>\n Mary Jo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Mama Squirrel commented: What I collect? I blush to use the term…scrounge is more to the point, since collecting might imply that I am more knowledgeable than I am about things such as editions and conditions. Not at all, my dear!\u00a0 Knowledge of editions and conditions is NOT necessary to be a true book collector.\u00a0 … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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