Most collectors whose libraries we bought were dead years before libraries came to us, so the only way we could judge the level of eccentricity in the collectors was the books themselves, or from other evidence….

An Orientalist named Paul Linebarger, whose father, we were told, had been Sun Yat-sen's lawyer, had absolutely wonderful books, but he had other things too. He was an early expert at psychological warfare, which I believe he later taught. In one of his closets, for example, we found a huge pile of anticommunist comic books in Mongolian. Paul Linebarger also wrote science fiction, under the name Cordwainer Smith. And he had an interest in ladies' lingerie. One of the more unusual things we bought in his estate was a bra mannequin, complete with bra. Several drawers full of bras we let lie.