If there’s anyone in the country who might be considered a bibliomaniac, it’s probably John W. Doull, longtime proprietor of the bookstore in Dartmouth, N.S., that bears his name. First popularized by an English cleric, Rev. Thomas Frognall Dibli, in his 1800s study Bibliomania; or Book Madness, the term is used to describe anyone who — as the Oxford English Dictionary puts it — has “a rage for collecting and possessing books.” This furor, of course, often defies simple explanation. But if you find yourself obsessively buying books at every opportunity, scouting second-hand stores for special editions of ones you already own, and running out of space in your own apartment for your collect
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