Collecting: An Unruly Passion by Werner Muensterberger

Collecting: An Unruly Passion by Werner Muensterberger

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From rare books, valuable sculpture and paintings, the relics of saints, and porcelain and other precious items, through stamps, textiles, military ribbons, and shells, to baseball cards, teddy bears, and mugs, an amazing variety of objects have engaged and even obsessed collectors through the ages. With this captivating book the psychoanalyst Wern

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Collecting: An Unruly Passion by Werner Muensterberger

From rare books, valuable sculpture and paintings, the relics of saints, and porcelain and other precious items, through stamps, textiles, military ribbons, and shells, to baseball cards, teddy bears, and mugs, an amazing variety of objects have engaged and even obsessed collectors through the ages. With this captivating book the psychoanalyst Wern
"What compels some people to buy the same object, albeit in different versions, over and over again?.. To find out why collectors lift their auction paddles long past sanity ... read Collecting: An Unruly Passion."--Art and Antiques "As a study of the phenomenon of private collecting, Werner Muensterberger's book, based on wide reading and personal acquaintance with many collectors, rings true."--The New York Review of Books
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ISBN 13 9780691604282
ISBN 10 0691604282
Title Collecting: An Unruly Passion
Author Werner Muensterberger
Series Princeton Legacy Library
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Princeton University Press
Year published 2014-07-14
Number of pages 320
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.