-- The Undercover Shelf --

An ever evolving collection of books, vintage images, and other things mostly related to reading, libraries, and information.

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nancyizazn:

Thank you Esko rummage sales! #librarian #score

This is the most awesome charm ever! I am so jealous! Now, please excuse me while I go troll etsy or ebay or wherever to try and find one for myself…..

(via barbara-bibliotecaria)

“So shines a good deed in a weary world.”

I have seen Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory more times than I can count. It was my favorite movie as a kid, and I used to watch it over and over on a VHS tape that we had recorded off of TV. I’m watching it on TV right now actually even though I own it, of course, but I still almost always stop and watch it when I see it’s on TV. And every time it ends I still feel sort of sad because it’s over again, even though I know I can watch it again anytime.

excitingsounds:

The Second Happiest Day by John Phillips (front cover, A Bantam Giant, A1368, copyright © 1953)

Oh, I would totally read this! I might have to track it down on AbeBooks….

(via realbronxbetty)

electricollection:

under the bar at Ferris and Jack. #librarylove (at MileNorth, A Chicago Hotel)

This must be where they keep all the illegal moonshine and extra strong hooch—“For librarians only.”

Indeed!

More vintage school library posters at the click-through link.

Isadora Duncan’s (in)famous memoir, My Life, is being re-released this month in a revised and updated edition. Check the click-through link for The New York Review of Books essay, “The Ecstasy of a Modern Romantic,” by Joan Acocella.

This book has been on my “to read” list for a little while. I’ll have to see if we’re getting it at my library.