Book Collectors

Book-collectors are divided into twelve or thirteen classes. There are also, in relation to books, certain sub-classes of human beings, who will some say be investigated and explained. These include the families or individuals who admit into their dwellings no other books except the Six Well-Bound Volumes permitted by interior decorators as the literary ration of a home. These are precisely placed on a table, between a pair of handsome "book-ends" (so called because it is an end to all normal use of books when you acquire them) and may be employed for pressing flowers, or as a place in which to conceal incriminating documents."
— Edmund Lester Pearson, Books in Black or Red, 1923