Somewhere in my late adolescence I stumbled upon a copy of T. E. Lawrence’s memoir Seven Pillars of Wisdom. It said on the title page it was a first edition and the used book dealer who was offering it said it would be a great first aquisition for an aspiring book collector. I wasn’t sure I wanted to be a book collector (and indeed would instead become a book accumulator, a horse of a very different color), but ever since... Read more