Friday, May 18, 2018

UNDER THE DUST-JACKETS..ARE TOUGH BINDINGS...











Have you ever heard of this English Book 
Company?

These are better books than you will find 
in an airport magazine shoppe.

Those paperbacks use paper that will
last a thousand days...and The Folio
Society book pages might endure for 
a thousand years.

There are likely no books extant in the
world to match these in quality and 
beauty. Many have excellent paintings,
drawings, and art work as illustrations.

The only books close to them in quality 
and beauty are the leather-bound volumes 
of several publishers. They also have 
special paper and bindings that will last a
millennium.

The prices for these books have gone
up considerably since I first became
acquainted with them. They range 
upwards over a half-hundred...often.

It is worth it to have at least one in 
your library...if you are a book lover---
just to sit and heft it and tho' it lacks
the marvelous smell of an old book,
it does have a fine bookish smell.

Every book aficionado knows that
one can absorb much learning from
the smell of a book!

I myself, have only three or four. I think
I acquired two on a deal once, just for
joining. My "membership" died for lack
of exercise, but one I treasure highly is
"one of twenty" Patrick O'Brian's  sea
novels.  I read all twenty, most of them
from the public library. Mine is "Master
and Commander."

These are books, to be highly coveted,
but for younger people, though even they
may not outlast the paper life.

And one needs a little cash to spare,
to own a whole Folio library.
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BY MIL

17 MAY 2018

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