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Overly fussy writer with a selection of good books in photo (8)

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pedantic

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'overly fussy' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'good books in photo' is the wordplay.
'good' becomes 'eda' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'books' becomes 'nt' (New Testament).
'in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'photo' becomes 'pic' (I've seen this before).
'eda'+'nt'='edant'
'edant' inserted within 'pic' is 'PEDANTIC'.

'writer with a selection of' acts as a link.
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(Other definitions for pedantic that I've seen before include "Overly concerned with insignificant detail" , "Abstruse" , "Fussy about correctness" , "Fussy about small details" , "Excessively scrupulous" .)

I've seen this clue in the Irish Times and the Irish Times (Crosaire).
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