bibliophile

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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

Corcoran was a bibliophile who didn’t horde books but who delighted in knowing what she could about those within her sphere of Modern art interests and making them available to others.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 10, 2022

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

Mr Shepherd considers it likely the book was in the safekeeping of bibliophile Harry Elkins Widener.

From BBC • Apr. 14, 2022

This group of literature has grown within the last twenty years almost unattainable by the less opulent bibliophile; its commercial value has risen to four times that to which the previous generation was accustomed.

From The Book-Collector A General Survey of the Pursuit and of those who have engaged in it at Home and Abroad from the Earliest Period to the Present Time by Hazlitt, William Carew