So now that Morgan and I have high speed, we like to download the british version of shows we like. Britian's Next Top Model, Big Brother (so much funnier/racier), Hell's Kitchen!!!, etc
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i think i will read the first one first...but, burton barr has the second in a vault, the description reading:
First edition; very rare. Octavo, bound in mottled old calf; covers stamped in blind; bands raised; compartments stamped in gold; red morocco label on spine. Published anonymously; written by Horace Walpole, who acknowledged the authorship in the second edition. Cf. Halkett & Laing; A.T. Hazen. Front free end-paper inscribed by Augusta Walsingham. Published in Dec. 1764, 500 copies. Cf. A.T. Hazen. Hazen, A.T. Walpole, 17. ESTC, t063198. Ex libris Alfred Knight.
ps. what do you think of umberto eco? i like certain quotes by him, such as
"In order to be so perceptive about the meaning of a spot on someone's shoe, you have to ignore the solar system. As for my own incuriosities, I am so uninterested in them that I do not even know they exist."
and
"Every day I do the less urgent task -- this gives me a sense of adultery."
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First edition; very rare. Octavo, bound in mottled old calf; covers stamped in blind; bands raised; compartments stamped in gold; red morocco label on spine. Published anonymously; written by Horace Walpole, who acknowledged the authorship in the second edition. Cf. Halkett & Laing; A.T. Hazen.
Front free end-paper inscribed by Augusta Walsingham.
Published in Dec. 1764, 500 copies. Cf. A.T. Hazen.
Hazen, A.T. Walpole, 17. ESTC, t063198.
Ex libris Alfred Knight.
I want a vault filled with first editions!
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"In order to be so perceptive about the meaning of a spot on someone's shoe, you have to ignore the solar system. As for my own incuriosities, I am so uninterested in them that I do not even know they exist."
and
"Every day I do the less urgent task -- this gives me a sense of adultery."
I have never read anything by him though...
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