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Bits of Ivory
“The little bit of ivory on which I work with so fine a brush, as produces little effect after much labour.” - Jane Austen
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The Library
Written by Sarah Stewart, illustrated by David Small
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New Roald Dahl book covers by Penguin - want!
Book covers are important. You go into a bookstore and what do you see? You see covers. The bookstore experience is about the design, the color, the shape, the feel. I mean when you walk into a bookstore, sometimes you’re overwhelmed. But aren’t you stimulated by the art? And it is art.
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Judging Books by Their Covers - CBS Sunday Morning - CBS News
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A girl in butterflies, her black cat, and tons of books! (Illustration by Erwin Madrid)
Gorgeous new covers for Penguin classics, the best thing since Coralie Bickford-Smith’s gems.
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(by Babette S.)
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He was mastered by the sheer surging of life, the tidal wave of being, the perfect joy of each separate muscle, joint, and sinew in that it was everything that was not death, that it was aglow and rampant, expressing itself in movement, flying exultantly under the stars.
—Jack London, The Call of the Wild
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