I love this.


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Flipping through a book on bookplates and other small pieces designed by illustrator Rockwell Kent, I came across this one, which I love. This looks like something from one of Lynd Ward's novels in woodcuts.


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It's been surprisingly difficult to get back to cataloging. Especially when I have to keep getting up to look for a ruler, an eraser, a first edition guide, etc. Things are going VERY slowly ( Read more... )

The guy with the books called me back and surprised me by saying he's all for the idea of my trying to flog his books for him online. We're going to experiment with only about ten or so to see if it's worth the hassle. (And, of course, the hassle would be MINE alone.) I'm not all that excited about doing this, but, god knows, I need SOMEthing to ( Read more... )

Recently TCM ran a block of movies that all had the word "Alice" in the title. I recorded two of these Alice movies: "Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore" (1974) and "Alice's Restaurant" (1969) (movies which, I have to admit, I've gotten confused as long as I've known about them -- I may even have thought they were the same movie at some point). "Alice ( Read more... )

The guy I may or may not be doing some cataloging work for wrote back to say he needs to mull over my offer, adding that it sounds like a lot of work with little return for me. Which sounds like an easy excuse for him to pass. So, I'm guessing he's unlikely to go for it. Which, as I said, would be fine with me ( Read more... )

Oh my god. I just spent an entire day writing a proposal for a book cataloging job -- not for a company, but for an individual. I am exhausted. I kind of want the guy to say he doesn't want to go ahead with it. I don't think I really want to do it. I should be working on this manuscript ( Read more... )

Some entity called Pro Quo Books in Toledo, Ohio has this single sentence as a book description for almost 125,000 books they've listed on ABE:

"Book has signs of wear, but remains fully functioning and easily readable."

If you've ordered something from them and it's only partially functioning, I'd demand my money back ( Read more... )

My first weird spam call on a cell phone! It was a recorded message from an excited man calling from deep inside a "prayer closet" in an undisclosed location. Here was his message ( Read more... )

I'm researching some books and came across a photocopied piece of paper laid inside one of them. It appears to be a sort of "Certificate of Authenticity" for the signature in the book ( Read more... )