From our recent expedition to Powell’s Books (third volume from the top):
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Gareth and Lynette, etc.
by Alfred Tennyson, D.C.L., Poet Laureate
Strahan & Co.
56 Ludgate Hill, London (1872)
136 pages, many of them still uncut, plus 10-page list of books
published by Strahan & Co. $5.50.
Update:
In the Forum: an hour, a lifetime, an æon etched in gold.
2 comments:
Despite the potential of being labeled a pervert, I would love to smell that book. And, of course, read it.
To the smell I can attest, you would not be disappointed. The reading will come later, in this life or the next, possibly as soon as tomorrow, which doesn’t exist.
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