Saturday, May 19, 2012

Lawrence's bookplate

.... free- associating here, for Pluvi: my almost accidentally acquired rebound copy of Norman Douglas's Together, from T.E.L.'s library. I picked it up in Berkeley 20 years ago for nothing; when I pointed at the plate and asked why so cheap, the clerk replied that I was the first person in five years to notice... in Berkeley! But then I also picked up a Leigh Fermor first with a dj there for $20, an early Voyage of the Beagle, and the only Linsenmaeier Insects I have ever seen for sale, all the same day...

1 comment:

Reid Farmer said...

I was blown away the first time you showed that to me