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The Saga’s Little Saga

29 Thursday Nov 2018

Posted by la Clarina in Books

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Books, Gösta Berling's Saga, Pavia, second-hand books, Selma Lagerloff

How my father happened to lose his own old copy of Gösta Berling’s Saga, I have no idea. When it came to books, the Colonel was an odd  mix of jealous worship and carelessness… But somehow or other the book was lost.

What I know for sure is that, many years later, I found an old copy of the Saga in a second-hand bookshop in Pavia – an old, tiny and delightful place named Il Parnaso, the kind of place where one can while away a rainy afternoon making discovery after wonderful discovery… oh, you know what I mean. Now, my found Saga was not the same edition my father had lost – but it was old, a little worse for wear, and bore an ex-libris explaining how it had been saved during some flooding or other of the Ticino, Pavia’s river. Continue reading →

Treasure Hunt

05 Thursday Feb 2015

Posted by la Clarina in Books

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Amazon, Books, bookshops, Internet, Internet Archive, Project Gutenberg, second-hand books

bookshopDo you remember a time before the Internet, when looking for a book could entail a good deal of leg-work, physically visiting bookshops, bookstalls and suchlike places?

I am old enough to have spent my adolescence doing just that: always wanting something that was, hard to find at best, but more often not available or no longer in print – and forever scouring bookshops and bookstalls… Continue reading →

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