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Art & Beauty showcases a less well-known side of him: the lifelong junk shop rummager and connoisseur of vintage media.

From The Guardian • Apr. 24, 2016

Slipping a palm furtively under cushions and into crevices as you fish for coins in other people's chairs in a fashion whose psychological symbolism is all too readily apparent, you cranny rummager, you wrong-Scarlatti admirer.

From Time Magazine Archive

There is the rummager, who snarls at all catalogues, and wants the freedom of the library, not for studious research, but to gratify his bookish propensity.

From The Library and Society Reprints of Papers and Addresses by Bostwick, Arthur Elmore

He is brother to the rummager, but he does not despise catalogues.

From The Library and Society Reprints of Papers and Addresses by Bostwick, Arthur Elmore