Silly, giddy feelings of excitement and anticipation...

Is it my birthday...is it christmas...no...but in about two weeks or so I am taking possession of an estate library of a few thousand volumes, many of which are...well...exceptional. It is always nice and fun to take in new books, to hold things you have never seen before and to catalogue them (ok, I admit this may well be a personal weakness, but it *does* bring me strange pleasure). But this is one of those once every very so often collections...a library build by at least one and possibly two generations of serious collectors with a great eye and a passion for signficant literature. I think I have goosebumps. Oh, and *then* we get christmas presents...what a great month.