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Sarah's Books - Used & Rare: November 2005
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Sarahs Books - Used and Rare. Painter - reader - writer - bookseller. Wednesday, November 30, 2005. Welcome to Sarah's Books. Right now, for example, I'm in the middle of a sweetheart of a book entitled. Book Shops: How to Run Them. By Ruth Brown Park, Doubleday, Doran Book Shops, Inc., 1929. I bought this at an antiquarian bookfair last year and am just getting around to reading it. And I'm halfway through. The Book That Changed My Life: Interviews with National Book Award Winners and Finalists. I buy a...
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Sarah's Books - Used & Rare: August 2006
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Sarahs Books - Used and Rare. Painter - reader - writer - bookseller. Thursday, August 31, 2006. I've been catching some flak for being away, and yesterday my dear pal-in-books Gary came by to visit and catch up, and he gave me this sign for my shop door - I particularly like the use of The Royal We (I have no employees):. To be able to get away for so long and this and such and so forth. Well, this is a good time to talk about that word "luck" - people tell me all the time how. Wednesday, August 30, 2006.
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Sarah's Books - Used & Rare: town and country
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Sarahs Books - Used and Rare. Painter - reader - writer - bookseller. Tuesday, May 19, 2015. As I transition slowly from Volume II into Volume III, I can't help but think that reading Horace Walpole's Letters. Of my paintings. Reading is, after all, my anti-anxiety medicine of choice! Keeps me busy (as does writing) so I don't worry as much! Do you get my letters? Or do I write only for the entertainment of the clerks of the post office? His friends must have shouted with laughter as they read. I smi...
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Sarah's Books - Used & Rare: speaking volumes
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Sarahs Books - Used and Rare. Painter - reader - writer - bookseller. Thursday, June 04, 2015. Last night I made inroads with Volume IV! Shall I mention a few things from Volume III before we move on? Horace Walpole to his inquisitive friend George Montagu, in 1756, from Volume III of the Letters. His life as a country gentleman is appealing, no? How about this, from the same to the same, on May 5, 1761, describing a spring evening in the country (p.399):. Till one o'clock in the morning.". Painting of c...
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Sarah's Books - Used & Rare: October 2006
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Sarahs Books - Used and Rare. Painter - reader - writer - bookseller. Monday, October 30, 2006. And I am, too. Please excuse the brief glitch over the weekend. My missing post has returned intact from the ether. I'll leave the other one as a reminder that communication isn't flawless in this technological age. Reminds me of one of my favorite scenes in the movie. Norton 2004). Sometimes I listen to the movie soundtrack here at the shop, and inevitably someone asks "What. Saturday, October 28, 2006. Seems...
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Sarah's Books - Used & Rare: hasty trifles
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Sarahs Books - Used and Rare. Painter - reader - writer - bookseller. Wednesday, July 08, 2015. To send you empty paragraphs when you expect and want news is tantalising, is it not? Pray agree with me, and then you will allow that I have acted very kindly in not writing till I had something to tell you.". From The Letters of Horace Walpole. Whenever the humour takes me, I will write, because I like it; and because I like myself better when I do so. If I do not write much, it is because I cannot.". Sounds...
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Sarah's Books - Used & Rare: song of myself?
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Sarahs Books - Used and Rare. Painter - reader - writer - bookseller. Friday, May 29, 2015. After some silence, one might take the opportunity. to revive a little correspondence with popular topics; but I think you are no violent politician, and I am full as little so; I will therefore tell you of what I of course care more, and I am willing to presume you do too; that is, myself." (Volume III, pp.161-162). What more could I want in my leisure reading? Not that everything I do isn't leisure reading, but ...
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Sarah's Books - Used & Rare: hiding in plain sight
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Sarahs Books - Used and Rare. Painter - reader - writer - bookseller. Saturday, May 16, 2015. Hiding in plain sight. What led me into this Horace Walpole madness, anyway. I found myself wondering this afternoon (nearly finished with Volume II of his Letters. Oh yeah, it was that charming David Cecil book I read many weeks ago, Two Quiet Lives. Famous poem, the oft-quoted and -misquoted Elegy Written in a Country Church-Yard. Isn't that a nice paper cover? The black cloth spine has the gently faded title ...
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Sarah's Books - Used & Rare: a tale of two titles
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Sarahs Books - Used and Rare. Painter - reader - writer - bookseller. Monday, July 20, 2015. A tale of two titles. I was recently at my book booth, in the antiques mall where I sell my books, and I came across this little gem. I said to myself, Self, why did you ever put this book out for sale? Why isn't this book still at home? I mean, honestly! So I brought it back home. And promptly found the book just to the right in the photograph below, already here on a shelf:. And the title page has a hand-colore...