Collecting Art Books Gifts

Pop Up Pointillism.

"In the first place, it isn't "maddening crowd.' It's 'madding crowd.' "

"That's the guy I hired to read Proust for me."

"Too bad about old Ainsworth. Published and published, but perished all the same."

Great Chinese Dynasties

Ed Flanders, Deconstruction Worker

'It's called 'Oh Bugger It!' if you must know!'

Library sections; Fiction, non-fiction and do-it-yourself.

My Bookshelf Before the Internet

Paul Klee

"Bah, I could've written a better dénouement in my sleep."

"Meet The Author"

"Tonight! Author book signing." "Develop your inner raging bitch."

"Meet the embellisher 3-5 pm"

Books: Novels, Short-Stories, Tall Tales.

Victor Hugo

Sherlock Holmes selling Sherlock Holmes.

'I didn't dedicate my book, A Lifetime of Wine Tasting, to my 3 ex-wives and nine kids, because they made it possible. I did it because they made it necessary.'

'You're going to have to make some changes in your lifestyle.'

'Look! The new long awaited, highly anticipated but ultimately disappointing novel by that guy you like.'

"It's a postmodern mosaic, almost lyrical in its undercurrent." "My five-year-old will be happy to hear that."

"It turns out everyone here is self-published."

Not to be a motion picture. Will remain just a book.

'Mysteries' section of bookshop reveals secret door.

Woman blowing dust off book 'Desert Romance'

Use your imagination.

J. R. R. Tolkien

"I would like a tube of lemon yellow, cadmium red, cobalt blue, ivory, black, and zinc white, a sixteen-by-twenty canvas, a couple of brushes, and that book 'Painting in Oils'."

Rare Books

Characters jumping out of a book.

Great British Eccentrics.

Books: The Wit and Wisdom of Ebenezer Scrooge

Shop struggles to sell books about recession: '90 per cent off on all credit crunch books' (Titles incluude: Beat the Crunch! Who's to Blame? We're all Doomed!)

Sock Puppet in Literature

Baby Einstein. Baby Frankenstein.