There is a stack of books in my study catalogued as "books that I want to read." This stack of books has existed as long as I can remember - as a young girl it was a mental list - over time, the stack of books has steadily increased. After all , the more we…
Reading the Cover of the Book
There are books and then, there are covers or dust jackets for hardbound books. I recently came across quite a few books published in the late 1940s with dust jackets intact. They are intriguing, interesting and nice to behold. Can we judge a book by its cover, maybe not. But we can quickly get an…
Rare People and Rare Books
The film, Fading Gigilo opens with Woody Allen carefully tissue wrapping beautiful leather bound books. The camera pans to empty shelves. He is closing the bookstore first established by his grandfather. He laments, This is the end of an era my friend, only rare people buy rare books. Soon after that scene, I lost…