Vintage Novel Aficionado Gifts

Rudyard Kipling.

Honoré de Balzac

Trilby - 'The old studio'.

'...then Johannes Gutenberg built the first bookcase'

"It was a lot more satisfying before 'catch and release.'"

The Kitchen area of a Whitechapel Boarding House

'Plimbco Bank &Trust, Old Money Division.'

Sock Puppet in Literature

You had me at vintage.

'Man...You age great!'

A burgandy from when the dow hit a record high.

Antiques

The Epsom Derby - The Finishing Line

A man with Dwarfism is reading Little Women.

'This is a letter opener, from the days before faxes and email. I just sold it online after I listed it as a vintage communication device.'

Victorian Fast Food - 'I'll have the lark pie festooned with eels, a full stilton, two bottles of port,,,'

"Mommy, look! Tablets from olden days!"

'This book is so rare it's never been published.'

'Who are you kidding? This is a wind-up isn't it!'

Mark Twain and Charles Dickens make a joint appearance on the lecture circuit

"Tell us again about the humpback of Notre dame."

"No. I don't want to see an all-male production of 'Little Women.' "

A.M Gorky

Old West Bounty Hunter.

'Oooh. By Emily Bronte. A very controversial book...Cruelty! Passion! Death! Risky territory for a woman author in the 1800s.'

Punk rocker passing punk codger in street.

"It's a novel about interest rates."

"Oh goody! It's just like the Columbian Exposition of 1893."

"Hold it, Lucy! Here I am!"

"Wow!"

"You'll never believe who's here."

'It says here that later in life they were able to patch things up and became best of friends.'

A 1950's Barber Shop

Cab Calloway Swings

In the eighties, Americans knew how to be Americans. Big cars. Big radios. Big hair. Everything was big. Unfortunately, I was so buff that all my huge stuff looked tiny in comparison. So I would loan my stuff to the skinniest, wimpiest kid I could find. Hold this. Let me reminisce vicariously through you. (Sigh.) Those were the days. Is it working?