Jul 11, 2022 Rare Books Goes On Vacation!
"May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view...
"May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view...
“This book is a remembrance of what was lost, an appreciation of what is left, and a celebration of what could be. Forests are not eternal. For all their solemn stillness, they constantly change, evolve, die, and regrow. But they are persistent, and they always...
"Yet he who praises Dr. Franklin for mere ability, praises him for that quality of his mind, which stands lowest in his own esteem. Reader, whoever you are, and how much soever you think you hate him, know that this great man loves you enough to wish...
Memorie di Matilda La Gran Contessa...
“On mesa and valley floor and treeless loma, the mantle of vivid green is overlaid riotously with color — the orange of California poppies; the blue and lavender of sturdy lupines and lolling wild heliotrope; the mauve of owl’s clover; the pale gold of sun-cups...
De unicornu observationes novae Thomas Bartholin (1616-1680) Second edition edited by Caspar Bartholin Amsterdam: apud JHenr. Wetstenium, 1678 For thousands of years, in literature as well as in art, the unicorn has been depicted as a white horse-like animal with a long straight horn made up of spiraling grooves...
"It's a terrific crash, ladies and gentlemen. The smoke and the flames now and the frame is crashing to the ground, not quite to the mooring mast. Oh, the humanity...
"The first we saw of that high-toned tramp war over thar' at our Pecos camp; he war comin' down the Santa Fe Trail astride of a wheel with a crooked tail, a skinnin' along, with a merry song, an' ringin' a little warnin' gong...
"Above in sun and wind the fertile rains, Below in clamorous waters thriving fish, and fields of summer filled with living bread, and fields of autumn filled with living wine." Easter W.R. Johnson (1933-) with relief prints by Claire Van Vliet West Burke, Vermont: The Janus Press, 1970 Z232.5 J36 J639 1970 Claire Van...
"Once upon a time in the land of Hushabye Around about the wondrous days of yore I came across a sort of box Bound up with chains and locked with locks And labeled, kindly do not touch, it's war" The Box Kendrew Lascelles (1935 - 2022) Los Angeles, CA: Nash Publishing, 1974 PR6062...