Reblog if you are a writer.
proving a point to my mom.
also, im curious as to how much of the tumblr population writes
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Kelliegram cover & binding from The Water-Babies by Charles Kingsley (1886). From Sotheby’s catalog: ‘Elaborate blue morocco binding by Kelliegram featuring morocco inlays of a fish, a child swimming, and seagulls, spine lettered gilt, edges gilt.’
Happy Children’s Book Week! (via Book Week Online)
Our first Tumblr post - the first edition of Tender is the Night by F Scott Fitzgerald, complete with the dust jacket from heaven.
The first edition of The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway. We love this jacket.
A lovely Book Week poster from 1924, designed by Jessie Wilcox Smith, who illustrated many children’s books. (via bookorithms)
The Book of Kings
William Strang (Scottish, 1859-1921)
Fernand Toussaint (1873-1955) - A Moment of Contemplation
Mbulu Ngulu
ARTIST:Kota
DATE:19th century
MEDIUM:Wood and copper
DIMENSIONS:22 x 11 5/8 x 2 in. (55.9 x 29.5 x 5.1 cm)
CREATION PLACE:Africa, GabonThe Minneapolis Institute of Arts
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10th Century Japanese science-fiction? Yes, please! - via
The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter, also known as Princess Kaguya , is a 10th century Japanese folktale. It is considered the oldest extant Japanese narrative and an early example of proto-science fiction. Specifically, it it is among the first texts of any culture assuming the Moon to be an inhabited world and describing travel between it and the Earth.
image: Kaguya-hime goes back to the Moon, c. 1650
It primarily details the life of a mysterious girl called Kaguya-hime, who was discovered as a baby inside the stalk of a glowing bamboo plant. She is said to be from Tsuki-no-Miyako (“The Capital of the Moon”) and has unusual hair that shines like the moon.
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