Bought from withdrawn library stock today for only 30p!

From the blurb:

"From sweet wrappers to smutty postcards, from pianolas to vintage cars; you name it and it's a sure thing there's someone who collects it. The more improbable the better in the twilight world of the true devotee, and what could be more improbable than a collection of collectors?

"So author Steve Geddes assumes as he emabrks on what should be a mildly facetious little study of that venerable instituion, the English eccentric. But that's until the most curious encyclopaedia he's ever seen draws his attention to a novelist it doesn't mnuch rate, and suddenly he's eating, sleeping and rbeathing the works of Thornton McCain. Before he knows it, Steve finds he's become a collector himself: he can't rest until he's located every book, read every sentence. He should get a life, he knows, but his collector's quest is taking him into the very depths of the acquisitive inferno."

Donated to charity.