Presenting the first happy winners of a Letterpress Keepsake
“Librarians: Working for you since 2600 B. C.” — Miguel Correia Librarian at ISCAL Portugal
Submitted by Deborah H, Meridian, ID
“Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?”– Henry Ward Beecher
Submitted by Jeremy D, Charlottesville, VA
“Milton wrote his best books after he lost his sight. I have written eleven books since I had cancer . . . My copy of Paradise Lost once belonged to Deborah Milton Clarke, the daughter who took Milton’s dictation after he went blind. For me, it was like the apostolic succession. I was touching the hand that touched the hand that touched the Hand.” -Reynolds Price quoted in Basbanes’ A Gentle Madness, 1995
Submitted by Sylvia Jane W, Enfield, CT
“I cannot live without books; but fewer will suffice where amusement, and not use, is the only future object.” —Thomas Jefferson to John Adams, 10 June 1815
Submitted by Vadim R, Greenwood Village, CO
“Seeing someone read a book you love is seeing a book recommend a person.”
Submitted by Steven W, Holbrook, MA
Yo, que me figuraba el Paraíso bajo la especie de una biblioteca (I, that used to figure Paradise In the guise of a library) — Jorge Luis Borges “Poema de los Dones” (“Poem of the Gifts”), 1959
Submitted by Amelia F, Rochester NY