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Our local bookshop - August 23rd, 2006 [ « ] [ » ]

Our local book shop (yikes! What yucky website.) has some great books at the moment, I mean it always has some great books but it has some great editions at the moment, specifically some US Penguin Classics and some lovely abstract covered new edition Victor Gollancz sci-fi books, the new version of The Dispossed is particularly cool, they look nicely retro and have great texture as well as web 2.0 style rounded corners.

The printing of Candide they had, cover by Chris Ware, was so incredibly lovely that I spent £7.99 on it rather than buying the £1.99 version that you can get in Waterstones or wherever.

It has a little map inside the front cover and a bit about Leibniz (upon whom professor Pangloss is purportedly based) inside the back cover.

Also I knocked all their postcards over and they were very nice about it.

And then Neil said:

I saw an exhibition of Chris Ware’s work in Chicago, including the recent house project he did. And on a similar note, I bought a second hand book the other day just because the cover was by Dan Clowes.

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