Michael Selzer, was born in India to refugees from Germany, and was educated in England at Bedales School and at Balliol College, Oxford. He has spent much of his life in one corner or the other of the world of books. He is a prolific (even if not, as he says himself, a particularly distinguished) writer of books and articles, and over the past 25 years has been an antiquarian bookseller, bookbinder, and book auctioneer. He is also something of an...