God bless mytelevision set.Most fabulousof toys.But pity me-if I forgetBibliophilicjoys.Bookplate of Dorothy Wheelockfound in a third printing of Brighton by Osbert Sitwell and Margaret Barton published in London by Faber and Faber, 1938.
Have You Read That Song?
The end-cap of the week award goes to 24 year old Martha Pettite of San Francisco's The Booksmith. Her display, titled "My Awesome Literary Mix CD," pairs 18 literary works with a musical counterpart.Pettite says she was "inspired by the song Wuthering Heights by Kate Bush; Todd (also a Booksmith staffer) and I were discussing what a great song it is and I relayed the story of a friend who also loved the song but had no clue that it was a reference to Emile Bronte's novel"1.”Killing an Arab” –The Cure (The Stranger by Albert Camus)2. “Tear in Your Hand”-Tori...
Book Bench
This is the book bench. It resides at the center of the editorial offices of the New Yorker magazine."On any given day, it overflows with hardcovers and galleys, kindly shipped to us by publishers, plus older tomes that people have cleared out of their toppling shelves...When an e-mail is sent out announcing the arrival of new stacks, it is not unlike a drop of blood entering shark-infested waters. Newcomers to the magazine, shocked by the frenzy, are gently reassured by an editor: “But it’s for books.”It is also the namesake of a new blog from the New Yorker, The Book...
Thou Shall Not
Old Chained BibleFrom Memorials of Old Hampshire Edited by Rev. G. E. Jeans, M.A., F.S.A., London, Bemrose and Sons, 1906.Under the bible lies The Knight Hospitaller’s Tomb. Bible dates from 1620 and both reside at North Baddesley Church.via From Old Books
Landscape with Books
Chris Engman. The Library, 2005Engman got the books "at a discounted rate from a used bookstore, where many of them had sat on shelves for more than a decade, unwanted, " and constructed The Library in the desert of eastern Washington State.Haunting in its barrenness yet the mere existence of this textual outpost offers a glimmer of hope.What did the last visitor take with them? What will the next one find? How much time is left before the desert wins?