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| I really don't know what those people with those scanners are looking for when they are running around the library book sales....but I know what I'm looking for... the oldest and most tattered books who need homes and love. I bet you can tell which ones I picked out. |
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| Yup, I got six books today for only $1 each and they are all over 100 years old. I just can't believe it...so cool. |
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| I can just picture the little kids who learned spelling from this old beauty... |
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| And this, a reader for a new reader, who is now long gone. |
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| Who doesn't like birds? |
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| And, don't tell Trump, but today was Russia Day at the library sale. There were dozens and dozens of books in Cyrillic .... so cool. They too were over 100 years old and tattered and mended and falling apart and wonderful. |
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| A rubber stamp from a Russian bookstore in SF? |
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| Will I tear this up? haven't decided yet. For a while, they will sit in my studio and I will just admire the fixed and aged pages.... |
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| Look at the hand sewing on the spine of that book (and not too neat)but lovingly mended) and passed along... |
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| And then we had the delightfully lurid noir paperbacks... |
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| How this those books get from Russia to SF? And how did this one get from NYC to SF? The stories they could tell. |
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| Interesting to mail artists...but I left it for someone else to find and love. I like my books very old and worn.... So, that was today. Since the shots I posted on Instagram were such a hit I figured you guys who read the blog might really enjoy seeing a little more detail. And, did I mentioned the big farmers market is right next door to the library? TOMATOES That's all I'm going to say.... |
