A library of one’s own: Meet the man who owns 12,000 books and now organizes the Melbourne Rare Book Week.

By The Solitary Bibliophile

June 24, 2019

“Once upon a time, a university student called Chris Browne decided to take up book collecting. It was 1970, and he bought a first edition of Ian Fleming’s James Bond spy thriller The Man With the Golden Gun for two shillings at a charity shop in Oxford, England.

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