“When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes”*…
From the proprietors of a second-hand bookshop in Brisbane, Australia, a collection of things they’ve found in the books they’ve bought…
More at Stuff in Old Books.
* Desiderius Erasmus
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As we riffle through the pages, we might recall that it was on this date in 1933, that Federal Judge John M. Woolsey, ruling on an action precipitated by Random House publisher Bennett Cerf as a test case, that the James Joyce’s novel Ulysses is not obscene. Woolsey reserved judgement on the objects found interleaved therein.
1922 first edition cover