I had mailed out some fun things to a Canadian friend of mine from Royal Holloway. She decided to continue on to her PhD after her MA studies. She is far away in New Zealand finishing up a degree in Classics ;) I thought she might like some fun goodies to brighter up her day.
Since she was the person who got me interested in cross stitch while I was in England, I decided to get her a few embroidery kits along with some chocolate & peanut butter candy. When we were in England, we used to joke about the peanut butter there. It just wasn't the same as American peanut butter.
I also mailed out a package to my friend in CA. The Amitie pinkeep, pink biscornu, and pink floss tag with initials that I had stitched up earlier this year went out to my dear friend ;) Along with some romance novels, Twilight sweetheart candy, and a very long letter. I forgot to take a photo of the box I put everything in O_o" It was pretty....another find at Hobby Lobby for 50% off ;)
While I was out, I drove to The Book Nook in town. I found some amazing books!
Isn't the frontispiece beautiful?
Title: Cranford
Author: Mrs. Gaskell
Publisher: New York, Thomas Y. Crowell & Co.
Date: 1892
Close-up of frontispiece!
I found another one of my favorite author's books there as well....can you guess who?!?! ^___^ Why Anthony Hope of course!
Publisher: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd.
Date: 1925
The Harrap company published ten pocket editions of Anthony Hope's titles.I wonder if I can find the other titles somewhere?!?!
The neatest collection I came across at The Book Nook were these books published by Little Leather Library in New York around 1916. This set of 28 volumes was $20. A steal for such an unusual set of books.
Titles in the set:
Fifty Best Poems of America
Fifty Best Poems of England
Poems and Plays by Robert Browning
The Poems and Songs of Robert Burns
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Other Poems by Samuel Coleridge
Short Stories by Guy de Maupassant
Sherlock Holmes, A Case of Identity and Scandal in Bohemia by Arthur Conan Doyle
Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam by Fitzgerald - trans.
Bab Ballads by W. S. Gilbert
Man Without a Country by Edward Hale
Barrack Room Ballads by Rudyard Kipling
Speeches and Addresses by Abraham Lincoln
The Courtship of Miles Standish by Henry Longfellow
Lays of Ancient Rome by Thomas Macaulay
The Gold Bug by Edgar Allan Poe
Olive Dreams by Schreiber
Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare
The Tempest by William Shakespeare
A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
Will O' the Mill and Markheim by Robert Louis Stevenson
Enoch Arden by Alfred Tennyson
The Coming of Arthur by Alfred Tennyson
Friendship and Other Essays by Henry Thoreau
Speeches and Letters by George Washington
Salome by Oscar Wilde
The Happy Prince by Oscar Wilde
Apparently, there were about a 100 titles available through Little Leather Library. I have a set of the Type II titles which have leather suede covers. Very neat! I've seen these every once in a while at antique shows.
I think my sister (a politics geek) will get a kick out of the Speeches & Letters volumes by Lincoln and Washington.
Until next time!! Happy book hunting to all my fellow lovers of musty old books ;)
I do believe you will have to save to buy your own Victorian house with a large library for your collection of books. Not a bad goal to have for the future.
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