Magnificent Obsessions: Twenty Remarkable Collectors in Pursuit of their Dreams

Magnificent Obsessions: Twenty Remarkable Collectors in Pursuit of their Dreams Mitch Tuchman, photographs by Peter Brenner (Chronicle Books, $19.95) Do you walk through flea markets fretting that you're passing a $5 Rembrandt? Do you refuse to throw out your sixth-grade pen because it might be worth something one day? Then do not page through this book. It might reinforce your obsession. So elegant are the words of the impassioned, so beautiful the photographs, that the reader will find herself lusting after fishing tackle and craving swizzle sticks. A- -Rebecca Ascher-Walsh