"Many new book dealers think of the antiquarian bookseller as a second-hand junkman or as a weird character who obtains books by sorcery, prices them by cannibalistic necromancy, and sells them by black magic."

Sol Malkin, "Rare and Out-of-Print Books," in A Manual on Bookselling (New York: American Booksellers Association, 1974), 208. Quoted in Evans, Developing Library and Information Center Collections