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June 29, 2005: San Francisco's Rare Book Sellers Featured in the Guardian
"'THERE ARE FOUR kinds of collectors," says John Windle, antiquarian bookseller. There are the Jackdaws, named after the bird attracted to bright and shiny objects; the Completists, who will spend 40 years and thousands of dollars obtaining every book ever written about, say, defenestration; the Peter Pans, who collect every book their mother ever read to them; and, finally, the Investors, who buy low and sell high."
