"For the Love of Books" is a highly personal collecting biography of one Paul Jordan-Smith, who has found time to write a book every reader and collector will delight in while serving as literary critic for the Los Angeles Times. There are sections on collecting American and English authors and more special chapters on Caradoc Evans, Jerome Cardan and others. Appended are a number of check lists, including lists of the works of Mary Webb, John Trevena, J. Mills Whitham and Arthur Machen. The book has a charm seldom met with in books of this type and numerous illustrations. Those who are beginning collectors will find sound counsel concerning the worthwhile, and those who look back over a period of years to the time they first bought a "first" will find a mine of information of varied sorts. Shortly, there is no collector to whom this book will not offer something. It is published by the Oxford University Press, and the price is just $2.50.

Hobbies, July 1935