Omnivoracious: Summer Reading Lists Are Here

harperbooks:

Last summer my eyes were bigger than my tote bag and it took me the rest of the seasons to get through my own list. These will definitely help when I have to pick-and-choose.

Source: peterwknox

The Diary of a Disappointed Book

{This actually upsets me.}

Susie’s Personal Library.

Susie’s Personal Library.

Gardens of Rare Books Santa Barbara’s Rare Booksellers Show and Tell Pia Oliver holds open a first edition of A Child’s Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson. Inside is a supposed signature by the author. “We know it’s fake, probably by Eugene Field’s son, but,” says Oliver, turning a few pages and indicating ink illustrations of children that are not in any other copies, “who drew these? Field? Stevenson? There’s some detective work involved too.” I am standing in Randall House Rare Books, tucked away in an old adobe building known as the Gonzales-Ramirez House on the corner of Laguna and Canon Perdido streets. Ten minutes ago I asked the obvious question, “Why do people collect rare books?” After all, when a new hardcover edition of A Child’s Garden of Verses sells for $19.95 at Amazon, why pay a bookseller $3,500 for a copy with a forged signature and the “Lower portion of spine leather split over hinge?”

Gardens of Rare Books

Santa Barbara’s Rare Booksellers Show and Tell

Pia Oliver holds open a first edition of A Child’s Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson. Inside is a supposed signature by the author. “We know it’s fake, probably by Eugene Field’s son, but,” says Oliver, turning a few pages and indicating ink illustrations of children that are not in any other copies, “who drew these? Field? Stevenson? There’s some detective work involved too.”

I am standing in Randall House Rare Books, tucked away in an old adobe building known as the Gonzales-Ramirez House on the corner of Laguna and Canon Perdido streets. Ten minutes ago I asked the obvious question, “Why do people collect rare books?” After all, when a new hardcover edition of A Child’s Garden of Verses sells for $19.95 at Amazon, why pay a bookseller $3,500 for a copy with a forged signature and the “Lower portion of spine leather split over hinge?”

Book Hoarding.

Book Hoarding.

Library at Googleplex, The Google Headquarters. {Not necessarily the library, just a library.}

Library at Googleplex, The Google Headquarters. {Not necessarily the library, just a library.}

Unknown French Bookshop.

Unknown French Bookshop.

For Memorial Day… Col. David Hackworth, About Face. {One of the best memoirs, military or otherwise, in the last half century.} 

For Memorial Day…

Col. David Hackworth, About Face. {One of the best memoirs, military or otherwise, in the last half century.} 

thepenguinpress: The city of Prague is appealing to Britons’ desire to flee London during the Olympics with “The Prague Games,” including ingenious sports like Kafkarate. Score one for the Czechs.

thepenguinpress:

The city of Prague is appealing to Britons’ desire to flee London during the Olympics with “The Prague Games,” including ingenious sports like Kafkarate. Score one for the Czechs.

Source: thepenguinpress