Library booksale treasures

The library booksale is, in all honesty, one of my favorite events of the entire year. As a bibliophile (or perhaps more accurately, a bibliomaniac!), I am filled with a mixture of bliss at finding treasure and a panic that someone else will find them before me. It's a mad rush that puts any black friday shoppers to shame when the open those doors and the hoards of book-hungry enthusiasts pour in and start the hunt. These are a few images from my recent finds.

 Robin Hood from a vintage/antique children's book I found

Knights protect the inside cover

 

I love how dignified the author portraits are in old books

 Confession: I bought this mostly for the awesome cover.

 Chapter headings are the best!

 

From a small book on an artist I'd never heard of - it reminded me of the Pre-Raphaelite art that I fell in love with during a class on the history of photography

From an antique textbook on physiology. It was falling apart, but the images are still in good shape.

 

The dangers of "tight lacing"!

The attention to detail in antiques is no small part of why I'm so drawn to them

I found these notes the photo, and the inscription inside an old Literature textbook. It's these little treasures and glimpses into the lives of previous owners that make the hunt for antiques so exciting!

Art is

biology lab notes

I am lost without my Boswell!

I wish my handwriting looked like this...