Bibliophilia: An Epistolary Novel of One Man's Obsession with Book Collecting

Synopsis

Flush With $400,000 From Selling His Great Great Grandfather's Correspondence With Victorian Authors, Larry Dickerson, Our Unassuming Retired Bank Clerk, Amateur Editor, And Literary Neophyte, Needs A Creative Outlet For His Newly Acquired Funds And Quickly Escalating Obsession With All Things Bookish. His Journey Begins With Collecting Rare Editions Of Victorian Novelists But Soon Spirals Rapidly Into The Abyss Of New Yorker Authors, His Determination Growing With Each New Purchase. James Thurber, E. B. White, Vladimir Nabokov, J. D. Salinger, And Dorothy Parker All Find Their Way Onto Larry's Shortlist, Standing Alongside Previously Acquired Victorian Greats Trollope, Dickens, Thackeray, And Hardy. Larry Approaches The Biggest Names In Rare Book Collecting With A Childish Glee And, With Refreshing Brashness, Finds Himself Handling Copies Of Authors' Most Coveted Editions, Touring New Yorker Offices, And Then Involved In One Of The Biggest Scandals Book Collecting Has Ever Seen. -- Book Flap. N. John Hall.