I like books. A lot. This is likely obvious.

I recently bought myself a book that I’d had my eye on for awhile. I wanted it based on title alone (Magic 1400s-1950s!), but then I saw pictures and made grabby hands at my computer screen and then I kind of had to have it.

I think I can safely say that it is now the biggest book I own.

It is the only book I have ever purchased that arrived in its own case, complete with convenient handle for carrying.

Here it is out of its box, with some regular-sized books for comparison:

And open:

It is gorgeous and I haven’t had the time to go through it page-by-page yet, but I’m very much looking forward to it. I kind of want to get a podium for it to sit on, like in a library. When I have the space for a podium. And a proper library.

I also got the not-quite-so-large but still rather big The Circus Book. I’m going to need more shelves.

Categories: books

2 Comments

Paul · December 14, 2010 at 5:58 pm

Eeeee! Elephant book! 🙂 That looks lovely, and I know what you mean about a podium! I want one, too, to have a book open on, and a different page on view, every day.

Clovia · December 22, 2010 at 6:44 pm

I just got jealous all over your blog.

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