The Secret and Surprising World of Rare Books

The Secret and Surprising World of Rare Books

Monday, Apr 27, 2020

The Economist — They are hunters and pack-rats, guardians of the unusual and obscure. Rare-book dealers sound like an obsessive breed you might have thought was long extinct (inevitably, the phrase conjures an image of a pipe-smoking gentleman in tweed). Yet as a delightful new documentary makes clear, today’s dealers and collectors are much livelier than the stereotype...