I libri pesano tanto, eppure chi se ne ciba vive tra le nuvole.

Luigi Pirandello, Il fu Mattia Pascal

Tripitaka Koreana, Korea,

Carved on 81258 woodblocks in the 13th century - is the most successful large data transfer over time yet achieved by humankind. 52 million characters of information, transmitted over nearly 8 centuries with zero data loss - an unequalled achievement.

The Tripitaka Koreana, stored in Haeinsa, a Buddhist temple in Gayasan National Park, South Korea, is the most comprehensive and oldest version of the Buddhist canon, with no known errors in its 52 330 152 characters which are organized in over 1496 titles and 6568 volumes.

Will Pryce Photography

Marshmallow, Signed by Author Clare Turlay Newberry 1st Edition Vintage Children's Book in Dust Jacket. by StompingGroundsBooks

Frogs book // SunnySundaysVintage

Bruintje de beer en zijn vriendjes - vintage illustration by Babs van Wely

Larger version.

All sorts of vintage book imagery is here in my virtual stacks.

Illustrations by George Barbier for 'The Romance of Perfume' by Richard Le Gallienne.

Published 1928 by Richard Hudnut.

State Library of Pennsylvania.

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1989 Legend of Zelda Golden Book “Sticker Fun”

🍽 source: Dr. Oetker Schulkochbuch für den Elektroherd (translation: Dr. Oetker school cook book for the electric stove) ➛ publisher: Ceres-Verlag Rudolf-August Oetker KG ➛ 16th Improved Edition 1969 ➛ Printed in Germany

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Chi sogna di giorno sa molte cose che sfuggono a chi sogna soltanto di notte.

Edgar Allan Poe

from Nightmares: Poems To Trouble Your Sleep - illustrated by Arnold Lobel

Daemonologie by King James Rare Occult Book Hand from HexenhammerBooks

Wayside and Woodland Blossoms // StonebridgeType

Egon Eiermann (1904-70) without doubt was the architect of the young German Federal Republic: his company buildings, the Expo 1958 pavilion in Brussels or the „Lange Eugen“, an office building for the members of the Bundestag in Bonn, are sophisticated examples of German postwar modern architecture. On the occasion of Eiermann 80th birthday in 1984 the first comprehensive monograph dedicated to his life and work was published: „Egon Eiermann 1904-1970: Bauten und Projekte“, published in 1984 by Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt and edited by Wulf Schirmer. The book acts on Eiermann’s maxim „logic, purity, clarity“ and presents his oeuvre, including his postwar and design works, in an exemplarily clean manner: consistently illustrated with black-and-white photographs as well as extensive plan material and brief explanatory texts the book covers each project, including those left unrealized, comprehensively according to size and relevance. In between the projects essays by Klaus Lankheit, Rudolf Büchner, Immo Boyken and Brigitte Eiermann enlarge upon a number of topics, e.g. his personality, the prewar career in Berlin and the furniture he designed. That way Eiermann’s work and also his teaching at TH Karlsruhe receives a personal dimension and additional depth.

40 years after its initial release the book has seen four editions, evidence of its status as reference work to Egon Eiermann and a status I can only underscore.