"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read." — Groucho Marx Un Gorrión en la Guerra de las Fieras Antoniorrobles (1895 - 1983) México: Secretario de Educación Pública, 1942 PQ6633 O2 S62 1942 Established in 1919, Children’s Book Week is...
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“Somewhere within their walls shall all that forwards perfect human life be started, Tried, taught, advanced, visibly exhibited. Not only all the world of works, trade, products, But all the workmen of the world here to be represented.” — “Song of the Exposition,” Walt Whitman Moscow Alexander Rodchenko (1891 - 1956) Moscow...
“In the beginning was the Word…” John 1:1 Postilla Matej Vaclav Steyer Prague, 1691 xBS2348 C8 S74 The word postil or postilla is an abbreviated term for a marginal note or Biblical commentary. Derived from the Medieval Latin phrase,“post illa verba textus” (after these words), postils were intended to provide clarification...
“Are you willing to be sponged out, erased, cancelled, made nothing? Are you willing to be made nothing? dipped into oblivion? If not, you will never really change…” — “Phoenix,” D.H. Lawrence The Phoenix Woodstock, New York: Maverick Press xAP2 P556 Like the legendary phoenix, some books can be born again, rising...
“Here on the edge we look east to the West, west to the East, and cannot resolve them. We can only watch; watch and prepare; and bide on the time when what we are, and that for which we have taken this stand, can be...
“But I know,” I know that they’ve got me in the wrong place! I know it! I know it! I know it!” PRELUDE TO EDEN: A DRAMA FOR MARIONETTES William Addison Dwiggins (1880-1956) Hingham, MA: Püterschein-Hingham Press, 1956...
Vojvodjanski zbornik: almanah. vols. 1 (1938) and 2 (1939) Novi Sad: S.n., 1938-1939 xPG1400 I5 V64 This journal of art and culture was produced in Vojvojdina, an autonomous province of Serbia, on the eve of the second World War. The journal, published in these two issues only, assembled...