All the best rubbish
Subtitle: the classic ode to collecting
By: Ivor Noël Hume
Edition: 1st Harper paperback.
Publisher: Harper
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 323
ISBN-13: 9780061809897
Subjects: Collectors and collecting
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 309-310) and index.
Table of contents: title: "What's past is prologue"; title: To have and to hold; title: Cabinets, closets, and dubitable curiosities; title: In search of bald sextons; title: Something for nothing; title: Billie and Charlie and Margaret North; title: Of mud, and pots, and puppy dogs, and mistakes that come back in the night; title: Adam and Eve to Caroline, with intermediate stops; title: History in a green bottle; title: "All the best rubbish is gone"; title: A word in your eye; title: Of mermaids, fakes, and other grave matters; title: And then what?