Endless Bookshelf

nice place you work in !

SFO -> EWR

after the book fair

always a pleasure to talk books in San Francisco
/ saw old friends & made new ones*, sold stuff & bought a few good things
/ * cc : @gillyarcht.bsky.social

Happy (much-missed) Peter Straub's birthday!

❤️

The Little Prince, signed by Antoine de Saint Éxupery

The Little Prince

at the California International Antiquarian Book Fair
pier 27 on the Embarcadero (booth 117), through Sunday

/ file under : the reason for the visit

the orange fence
says
work in progress
but the green grass
speaks an eternal truth

The two of us sitting on the edge of very very green grass, pink tree blossoms beyond

@jwomack.bsky.social if your ears were burning in spite of the snow, @endlessbookshelf.bsky.social stopped by and we had a lovely stroll through Precita Park, which was giving bright spring, even though February!

met up today with @gillyarcht.bsky.social for a walk around a sunny green neighborhood park
/ cc : @jwomack.bsky.social
/ file under : IRL

The Little Prince, signed by the author, Antoine de Saibt Éxupery

title page of The Little Prince

the reason for the visit

California International Antiquarian Book Fair
/ opens tomorrow at Pier 27 on the Embarcadero (Cruise Terminal), through Sunday
/ come say hello (Cummins booth 117

www.jamescumminsbookseller.com/searchResult...

restaurant sign, BON, NENE

will stop by tomorrow (or Weds.) or by appt

rhododendrons in the snow

/ meanwhile, back in New Jersey

the snow rhododendrons of Montclair Himalaya

come say hello

am in town for the ABAA antiquarian book fair, Fri to Sun at the Cruise Terminal, Pier 27 at the Embarcadero

california poppies on a hillside, Bernal Heights, San Francisco

yesterday on Bernal Heights

EWR -> SFO

Happy New Year !

good wishes to all

/ will be offline for a few days

Headline : Rubio hails Orbán's role as ‘essential’ to YS and backs him in election test

today's headline in FT @financialtimes.com

the president _and _the secretary of state of the Trump administration are shilling for Orbán

/ file under : finding new lows

This is glorious.

Bare trees throw shapes above the wet leaves and drenched brambles of the wood's floor.

Hampstead Heath, 08:08

as Fran Leibowitz said, late stage capitalism can always get much, much later

Agnès b. in FT HTSI
“I've been raised to share. I think rich people have to share. Not paying people, not paying taxes and paying lawyers to not pay taxes is immoral to me. I work 65 percent for the state. Perhaps that's why they gave me a lot of medals.”
/ the world needs more people like Agnès b.

Hear, hear! No concentration camps in Jersey, Governor Sherrill.

also : “Say to yourself self, ‘Really look at what's on your desk.'"

Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work.

"We can't find it right now, but when we do we'll give you a call."

Why Do Americans Accept The Extrajudicial Killing of Civilians By Police? Some thoughts.

"In 2021, the French police, who are armed, killed 37 people. In the United Kingdom in 2019, where police are not armed, except for special response units, they killed only three. In the United States in 2022, police killed 1,096 people."

AOC on DHS Warehouses: I think every American should be alarmed. They are building—and have built—a black box system that disappears people, both immigrants and U.S. citizens alike.

dear Governor Sherrill @mikiesherrill.bsky.social

I trust you and the NJ state legislature are paying attention and will swiftly be enacting similar legislation.
Which side of the fence will you be on ?

Sincerely,

Henry Wessells
Upoer Montclair, NJ

orange marmalade, batch 4

I did a thing for the #Shelfie website. Click on over to find out more -- including a few highlights of this modest and rather random collection of books about #Londontown.