As a summer project—and with a lot of assistance from my son Harry—I’ve started a tumblelog called “pages” that you can check out here.
The main purpose of this new tumblr is to reproduce images culled from our collection of rare and collectible books. I want to virtually curate our books as a way to more widely share some wonderful bits-and-pieces of literary esoterica that would otherwise sit unloved on our shelves or eventually disappear into the libraries of customers.
William Gibson call us “…that strange species that constructs artifacts intended to counter the natural flow of forgetting,” which is exactly my goal with pages.
I want to share my enthusiasm for the purely visual pleasures of these books before a renewed effort in the fall to sell many of them off. On the tumblelog you’ll see covers, illustrations, recipes, diagrams…even pictures of things found in the books. I will also be editing and photo-shopping here-and-there in my role as curator.
I hope you enjoy the show and check back often.
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