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According to author Marilynn Gelfman Karp, collecting is a calling; and those who are driven to collect unloved objects are the purest collectors of all. In this literary and sophisticated celebration of humble objects, Karp shares her passionate insights on what she calls the "rapture of the capture."
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Bringing together elements of personal memoir and cultural history, a celebration of collectibles and the art of collecting examines a host of lost and found objects, including buttons, erasers, cigar rings, pictorial seed packets, and figural matchbooks that are pursued by international collectors, in a volume containing some one thousand full-color photographs.
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