First Edition Fever

Hardcore book collectors are all crazy. They're downright nuts. It's a gentile madness, true, but never-the-less, a serious, documented condition: Bibliomania. Now, I'll admit to being a bibliophile , but I've never quite crossed the line into full-blown First Edition Fever. I have a few first editions, mostly things I've worked on, books in which I feel I have a personal stake. Some of which are winning major awards.

I appreciate the madness, even if I really don't understand the impulse to p...