Dusty Readings

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Vintage books make the perfect backdrop for a beautiful rose...

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A Book of English Letters, chosen and edited by J. E. Mason. Date unknown. Given to me as a gift.

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Doctor Dolittle's Zoo by Hugh Lofting, 1957. Purchased from the Crows Nest Book Fair for $5.

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Interesting notes scribbled in the back of the last book posted (Prose of Yesterday). The first is a series of reader exercises, the second shows some unfinished responses.

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Prose of Yesterday Dickens to Galsworth, selected by Guy Boas, 1937. Given to me as a gift.

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The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens, date unknown. Given to me as a gift.

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Some Australian Poets by A. J. Coombes, 1938. Given to me as a gift.

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Chambers, London 1930

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The Paris Sketch Book by W. M. Thackeray, 1866.

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Elizabeth Craig's Enquire Within, 1948. Given to me by my mum who found it at a Lifeline book fair.

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Blind date books at a second hand book store in Sydney.

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Boxes and boxes full of antique and collectible books at the Lifeline book fair over the weekend.

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New York Antiquarian Book Fair, April 2014.

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Happy 450th birthday to William Shakespeare!

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A Nest of the Gentry by Ivan Turgenev, 1951. Purchased from Elizabeth's Bookshop in Sydney for $16.

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hearthside-reader: Romola Nijinsky (his wife) Illustration: 8 pages of black-and-white photographic plates Cover illustration: drawing of Nijinsky from a poster by Jean Cocteau painted in 1909 - pub. 1960

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Marigold Garden by Kate Greenaway