I found this in a copy of the Penguin Poets volume on Thomas Hardy I bought secondhand the other day. Intriguingly it talks about a broadcast. What was that broadcast? And the name at the top of the page - J Holmstrom - is the co-author (thanks, Google) of the 1968 book ‘Thomas Hardy and his Readers’… so are these pronunciations taken from that book, or are these in fact the author’s own typewritten notes - have I bought *his* copy of Hardy’s poems? Oh, the low-level West Country excitement!
The lovely bold colour bars - and the deathly boring illustration - on the front cover of this Pelican remind me precisely why, at school, I dropped Geography at ‘O’ Level and switched to Art instead.
A 1964 Pelican I bought the other day. If poetry analysis doesn’t fry your brain enough, the cover will have a go at finishing the job.
Found while bookshopping in Austerity Britain 2014 - a book from Austerity Britain 1947. A very busily-illustrated (lots of crowd scenes) Puffin book of English Fashions.
Spoiler alert: according to the last page (‘The Inter-war Years’) plus-fours and flannels are where it’s at, kids.
Concrete garage floor + garden detritus (about to be swept away) + a few other bits of crap = instant late-’80s 4AD album cover. Easy!
Just to let you know, I’m taking orders in the Standard Designs shop only until 7AM GMT Wednesday 18 December (i.e. tomorrow). Orders placed after that will be dispatched on 3 January 2014. It’s Christmaaaaaaaaaas! etc.
http://standarddesigns.etsy.com/
Turntable Kitchen has my Radiohead In Rainbows print at No. 1 in their festive rundown. Sweeeeet!
A Pelican from 1959. Am digging the just-stick-the-title-on-the-cover-Fred use of Albertus. Am digging less the cat-lion-thingy. Still, not bad for 10s/6d.
