In Toronto, a vending machine that sells random books for $2 apiece.
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Hansel and Gretel and Other Stories by The Brothers Grimm
Illustrated by K. Nielsen
Publisher: New York, George H. Doran Company, [1925]
Finely bound by The Chelsea Bindery in full dark blue morocco, titles and decoration to spine gilt, pictorial multi-coloured onlay of The Gingerbread House to the front board, inner dentelles, original endpapers, gilt edges. With 12 colour and 12 black and white illustrations
The Library, Shakespeare’s House, Stratford Upon Avon.
Shiny tea … by *aoao2
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Siddhartha (by Herman Hesse)
is it good? also, i can’t tell for sure, is it a biography or just a story?
One of my favorite books. Very Hesse-ian if you’ve every read anything else from him. It’s much more of a story rather than a book of teachings or something, but the concepts are still integral to the story.
“Noun is a playful artist’s book about words and their definitions. It is like an exquisite corpse with words.
Starting with 27 real English words, each word and its definition has been divided into two parts. By turning the pages, you get to mix and match the word halves to create humorous and nonsensical new words and meanings.
With over 700 different combinations, this book is the perfect item for bibiophiles, lexicographers, writers, and any lover of words.
Here are a few examples of words and definitions you can put together:
whisper + umbrella = whisbrella: A low sibilan utterance for sheltering one from rain and sun.
banana + onomatopoeia = bananpoeia: A large herbaceous perennial tropical plant that bears fruit imitating the sound of the thing or action signified.
muffin + tyrant = muffrant: A quick bread made of batter unrestrained by law or constitution.
nomenclature + ancestry = nomencestry: A system or set of names for things derived from, or possessed by, an ancestor or ancestors.”
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