When someone says they don’t read it makes me feel like someone kicked me in the face.

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Codex Sloane 4016 is a 15th century Italian parchment manuscript belonging to a class of books known as herbals. These medicinal treatises recorded knowledge accumulated in the oral tradition about plants believed to possess therapeutic properties. (via BibliOdyssey: Tractatus de Herbis)

“Being rich is not about how much money you have or how many homes you own; it’s the freedom to buy any book you want without looking at the price and wondering if you can afford it.”  ― John Waters, Role Models

Herbert Gehr, 1949

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أطفال غسان كنفاني

The Children of Ghassan Kanafani, by Ghassan Kanafani, illustrated by Burhan Karkutly (1978). A collection of short stories.

theshipthatflew:illustratedgents: (via my vintage book collection (in blog form).: Aesop’s Fables, illustrated by Alice & Martin Provensen)

Sir Orfeo: A Legend from England - retold by Anthea Davies, illustrated by Errol Le Cain (1970).

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*:*:*: Codex Seraphinianus

fer1972: Ex Libris Mr Reaper - Bookplate from the collection of Richard Sica

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