Book of Books

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An aging beatnik with a ragged knapsack plunked down next to me in the Haufbrauhaus and started raving about the "book of books."

From Slate • Aug. 10, 2015

By such signs and tokens, this book, for an English-speaking person marooned in the middle of the 20th Century, would be the book of books for him to have along.

From Time Magazine Archive

Then might she again take up the book of books with as much enjoyment as in her early youth, but now she liked it not.

From Persuasion by Austen, Jane

Hitherto it had been received as a matter of implicit faith, that this book of books was composed in one spirit; that it was even inspired, and, as it were, dictated by the Divine Spirit.

From Autobiography: Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life by Oxenford, John

The Bible is the book of books in Ulster, and there is no page of Mr. Mayne's Ulster plays but shows him acquainted with its great rhythms.

From Irish Plays and Playwrights by Weygandt, Cornelius