Playingjane - Playing Jane

Fairy tales on a rainy Sunday for @bibliophilicwitch tomes and tea. Drink is mt dew cause I need caffeine today.

Getting a head-start on producing “Right wingin, bitter clingin’, PROUD clingers” bumper stickers. I’ll be rich!

Guarding me? Or hunting me? Never quite sure.

Astronomical myths. 1877.

New Arrivals: First American Edition of Tolkien’s THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING (1954). In the correct first printing dust jacket with the fold-out map of Middle Earth intact.

First volume of what is likely the most significant trilogy of books written in the last century. The first printing in the US was bound from British sheets, only 1,500 copies. A harder book than you might expect in the correct dust jacket, as points changed between the first 10 or so printings, and people are overly-fond of swapping dust jackets from later printings onto first printing books.

Tsk tsk…

also its fucking hilarious that wicked is getting a movie bc then that movie will be a movie that is based on a musical that is based on a novel that is based on a movie that is based on a novel

Hamlet adaptation where Hamlet is a vlogger and all his soliloquies are breakdowns he uploads to YouTube

“Book Alchemy” by Jacqueline Rush Lee

Look what I got! The best thing about this edition is not its pretty cover, but the fact that it’s a new and supposedly good translation with almost 200 pages of notes. I have only read tiny bits of Dante, so I’m stoked about finally getting this. || “And so my mind, held high above itself, looked on, intent and still, in wondering awe.“