Happy Birthday, Mr. Carver.

Put a stack of these on the front table and they will sell. That’s what I just learned.

photo credit to my little sister Anna.

“I was a very ancient twelve; my views at that age would have done credit to a Civil War veteran. I am much younger now than I was at twelve or anyway, less burdened. The weight of the centuries lies on children, I’m sure of it.”

—Flannery O’Connor

Her piece on the peacocks she kept at her home which is in “Mystery and Manners” has to be some of her finest work.

In tandem with the previous Princeton Arch. Press book, we also have Bryan Nash Gill’s “Woodcut”. Filled with precise and ethereal images it comes with a Verlyn Klinkenborg foreward. Win, win, win.

No one image I can put up of Joy M. Kiser’s “America’s Other Audubon” would do this book justice.

At $5,700.00(or so) it’s a little beyond my fiscal reach.

Penguin Classics poster for Ernest Poole’s “The Worker”. And, of course, we agree with the sentiment.

We’re patriots that way.