bibliophile
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Best known for his diaries, the tailor's son was also a bibliophile who bequeathed his large library to the University of Cambridge's Magdalene College.
From BBC • Jul. 22, 2024
In 1895, Adam Clark Vroman, an ex-railroad worker, bibliophile and photographer, new to the San Gabriel Valley, partnered with J.S.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 18, 2024
He was a Christian Zionist and bibliophile, who by all accounts knew the land of Israel better than many of the Jews who lived there.
From Salon • Oct. 28, 2023
As something of a bibliophile, I found cutting pictures out of books appalling, but newspaper work hardens even the most sensitive soul.
From Washington Post • Sep. 22, 2022
He had been the underbidder, but what chance had a poor devil of a bibliophile against the wealthy captains of industry?
From The Unpublishable Memoirs by Rosenbach, A. S. W.