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Ode on the Purchase of Elizabeth Von Arnim's Enchanted April

O NYRB*
I heart you
I buy you
Too Much.




* NYRB = New York Review of Books selection; usually out-of-print classics brought back into print. The whole line of books are produced with uniform (though variegated) design and multicolored spines. Google them. They are very pretty. Very collectible. Munchable.

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Erin said…
lovely...i think i just may be convinced to try my first nyrb...perhaps my reading slump is not a slump after all, but a yearning for something new!
May 26, 2009 at 12:31 AM
Ian Wolcott said…
I have a long lovely shelf of NYRB paperbacks. I just made a trip to Green Apple Books in San Francisco the other day and added Walser's Jakob von Gunten.
May 28, 2009 at 10:55 AM
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