| #3101274 in Books | Chronicle Books | 1994-08-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.92 x.42 x9.61l, | File type: PDF | 144 pages | ||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| A nice book about unusual private collections|By Bemma|This book is for anyone who avidly collects anything. In the 70's kids collected comic books and trading cards especially baseball, football, and Star Wars. When you got older, you might have moved on to books or model spaceships, and then later, you chased after the comic books and trading cards you didn't have when you|From Kirkus s|Meet Norma Hazelton, connoisseur and collector of swizzle sticks. If you're not impressed by a plastic Jackie Gleason long since separated from its maraschino cherry, take a look at Robert Cade, inventor of Gatorade and a collector of Studebakers
Everybody accumulates things, but the 20 collectors whose achievements are showcased in Magnificent Obsessions have amassed extraordinary arrays of objects ranging from the whimsical to the conceptual, the classic to the capricious. Rich color photographs reveal the sprawling scope and fascinating detail of each magnificent collection.
You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Magnificent Obsessions | Mitch Tuchman.Not only was the story interesting, engaging and relatable, it also teaches lessons.
