This miniature book reached me quite by accident, and I approached it purely out of literary curiosity.
The contents of these works are in themselves a literary curiosity.
Early advertisements for the first edition appealed to "lovers of literary curiosities" as an oddity.
Clicking on the link I was immediately transported to a virtual cabinet of literary curiosities.
And you have to wonder why it would spend its resources on a work whose primary value is as a literary curiosity.
The curiosity of the lover became, so to speak, a psychological and literary curiosity.
He was responsible for some striking literary curiosities.
Starting with the book's own preface, it has been classified as a "literary curiosity".
But his enthusiasm for guns, it turns out, owes more to moral conviction than literary curiosity.
But the present book will remain a literary curiosity.