Vintage Book Collectors Mugs

Frontispiece for Juvenal

"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."

"No, it wasn't a sinkhole. Your old TV was so heavy the ground could no longer take the weight."

Ed Flanders, Deconstruction Worker

My Bookshelf Before the Internet

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

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

"Meet The Author"

Victor Hugo

Books: Novels, Short-Stories, Tall Tales.

'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.'

Sherlock Holmes selling Sherlock Holmes.

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

"Meet the embellisher 3-5 pm"

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

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

'Mysteries' section of bookshop reveals secret door.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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

Rare Books

Woman blowing dust off book 'Desert Romance'

Characters jumping out of a book.

Great British Eccentrics.

Barcode on Ancient Greek Vase

Books: The Wit and Wisdom of Ebenezer Scrooge

"Ikea for hippies" 1. Flimsig used pallets, old foam 2. Stinkum goat wool 3. Beetup recycled lumber 4. Riskig kerosene lamp 5. Stupor hand blown by Nils 6. Smokum found on beach in Mendocino 7. Woblig 100% driftwood

Trilby - 'Je prong!'

"I don't care if it is itty-bitty. Turn it off!"

Sock Puppet in Literature

"I did the math. If we want to read all of Proust in this lifetime, we have to start tomorrow morning."

Baby Einstein. Baby Frankenstein.

The original paperless office

Do it yourself books.