bookmania: from The Casual Vacancy by J.K. Rowling
bookmania: “Ban This Book” by Grant Snider
“People who read books in public places are regarded with suspicion because they appear self-sufficient. When you seem self-sufficient, other people think that you think you’re better than them, and they get resentful.”
bookmania: “Te amo sin saber cómo, ni cuándo, ni de dónde; te amo directamente sin problemas ni orgullo: así te amo porque no sé amar de otra manera.”  “I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where, I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I don’t know any other way of loving.” ― Pablo Neruda,  Cien sonetos de amor [100 Love Sonnets]
bookmania: from The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
bookmania: The Old Town Bookshop, Edinburgh (Photo by Molly Frances)
bookmania: The Casual Vacancy is J. K. Rowling’s upcoming novel and will be published on the 27th of September, 2012. Sounds inviting (because it is, J. K. Rowling!), but I think we better read reviews about it before purchasing.
book-aesthete: Little Brother & Little Sister Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. London: Constable & Co., Ltd., 1917. Bound by Bayntun-Riviere c. 1965. One of 525 Copies Signed by the Artist. Limited to 525 copies signed by the artist, this being copy no. 259. Quarto. Thirteen tipped-in color plates, forty-three black and white text illustrations. Bound by Bayntun-Riviere c. 1965 in full midnight green morocco with inlaid pictorial central panel reproducing the color-plate “She Begged Quite Prettily to be Allowed to Spend the Night There” (opposite p. 206) in gilt-tooled frame within triple gilt-ruled borders and large, gilt foliate corner-pieces. Gilt rolled edges. Broad, gilt dentelles. Gilt decorated compartments. All edges gilt.
book-aesthete: Paradise Lost: A Poem in Twelve Books. John Milton. London: Pr. by Miles Flesher for Jacob Tonson, 1688. “The fourth edition, adorn’d with sculptures” — that is to say,the first illustrated appearance of Paradise Lost, as well as what Hodnett calls “the earliest serious effort to illustrate an important work of English poetry” — andthe first folio edition to boot — Pforzheimer noting that this is additionally the first publication of Dryden’s lines on Milton.
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