Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts: Twelve Journeys into the Medieval World
by Christopher de Hamel
TRUE
This book about beautiful books is, as you would hope, a beautiful book itself. But more so, like the books it describes, it has personality. De Hamel, one of the world's experts on illuminated manusc... (Tom)
Tell Me a Mitzi
by Lore Segal and Harriet Pincus
MADE-UP Phinney by Post Kids #23
Oh what a joy that this book is back in print! I didn't know about it when I was little (though I was the right age for it when it came out in 1973), but it was a favorite to read with our own kids, b... (Tom)
The Land of Little Rain
by Mary Austin
TRUE Phinney by Post #35
Austin was an unknown writer in her 30s, living near Death Valley, when this tiny book of desert sketches first appeared in 1903, but from its first sentences she writes with a startling and compellin... (Tom)
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