The dealers' mission, one declares, is to "inculcate neophytes into the wonder of the object of the book." (Translation; get the suckers hooked.) We glimpse one volume containing mammoth hair; another covered inhuman skin, with teeth embedded in the cover; and a librarian doll, "with Amazing push-button Shushing Action!"
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A review of the documentary "The Booksellers" is about people who are obsessed with print books. I happen to own the librarian doll mentioned, a toy that was all the rage with librarians back in 2003. She was modeled on librarian Nancy Pearl who wrote "Book Lust." Here's a history of the famous librarian action figure: https://mcphee.com/pages/history-of-the-librarian-action-figure
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