This blog is a project run by a secondhand English language bookshop in the Baltics. Here we will be posting about the stranger books we receive and archiving the odd ephemera we find in them. Such as photographs and hand-written notes, interesting typography and design, old tickets and faded letters.
28.12.13
27.12.13
New Yorker, July 26 1947
From the New Yorker, July 26 1947, an opinion piece on Kafka along side some lovely old adverts. Found folded neatly in a book about German bridges.
The Shavian Alphabet
George Bernard Shaw (b.1856) left in his will the details for the creation of a new phonetic alphabet. This copy of Androcles and the Lion contains an example of the Shavian alphabet along with the English original. One of the purposes of the alphabet is to express accents in written text as well as be easier to write and print. Note the large margin on the left page; the Shavian alphabet takes up 1/3 less space and typesets rather well.
Bacon's Large Print Map of London, circa 1947
We found a fold out street map of London in a haul of books we received in December 2013. There is some mild fraying on the edges but all-in-all it's in great shape. The inks are still very vivid and it's presumably been relatively untouched for the past +60 years.
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