Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Young Men & Old Books


Jordan turned 18 on Friday, we haven't seen very much of him since!

In celebration of my giving birth day we headed over to the Arts Festival in nearby Litchfield Park and found a vintage and antique book sale going on in a very old school building. What a treat! I wanted to buy it all, but I settled on these: (Top to Bottom) Four Shakespearean Comedies, The Little Prince, Guy de Maupassant's Selected Short Stories, Gertrude Stein's 3 Lives, The Highly Sensitive Person, The Size of Thoughts , The Joy of Lex ( I almost passed it by mistaking it for that other joyful book!) The Book of Virtues, an old dictionary for altering, a book that didn't make the photo because it's already tangled up in my comforter (The Prodigal Tongue) and the piece de resistance...

This dusty little unsuspecting wonder is a 1953 copy of Albert Skira's biographical and critical studies of Pablo Picasso's work! I'm in heaven.

Peace and good times and books and stuff!


7 comments:

Barbara said...

Sounds like the festivities were fruitful for all =). Great finds.

mairedodd said...

fabulous reads! and congrats to both you and your son for reaching 18! :0)

Kathy said...

Well Happy Birthday to the guy and what fabulous finds!!

High Desert Diva said...

Happy late birthday to Jordan.......and lucky you with your book scores!

Jennifer said...

Awesome! Those books look yummy and happy late birthday to your son and late giving birth day to you. (I love that!)

Cecile/DreamCreateRepeat said...

Happy Birthday, Jordan!
Happy reading, T!

Unknown said...

i always appreciate how you do things around your house (in regards to celebrations)

the cake looks delightful!

Happy belated b-day to jordan and giving birth day to you!

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