First Edition Books ....
Who wants a Kindle when you can have the joy of reading a Book , in your hands, with that Glorious Book Smell. Imagine, getting your hands on a First Edition of your very favourite old novel. The book you love most in the world, the book that changed your life, the one you go back to time after time... The Desert Island Book.
Imagine a Jane Austen Devotee, reading about the Gorgeous Mr Darcy and the Elusive Elizabeth Bennet, from a Book the Author could have actually touched and held herself ? The original illustrations, the smell of the musty pages, And to take this dream one step further, a book she actually signed herself.. that precious signature, every time you open the first page.
For me, it was Watership Down. That delight from Richard Adams.
And even greater joy, he signed it , dated it, and dedicated it to a friend in Covent Garden.
What a find.
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Imagine a Jane Austen Devotee, reading about the Gorgeous Mr Darcy and the Elusive Elizabeth Bennet, from a Book the Author could have actually touched and held herself ? The original illustrations, the smell of the musty pages, And to take this dream one step further, a book she actually signed herself.. that precious signature, every time you open the first page.
For me, it was Watership Down. That delight from Richard Adams.
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What a find.
More Information on Watership Down
Next Post.... how to Identify a First Edition
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