More embossed leather bookmarks from my (one and only) tour of the U.K. in the year 1976. And yes, I was wearing short pants.
For some reason I seem to have picked up a lot of these in Scotland, even though I don’t remember being there very long. I’ll have to see if I can find my (one and only) journal from the trip and post pics.
Book: Black’s Law Dictionary
Many bookmarks come with tassels. They just seem to go together.
Book: The Hollow Crown: Shakespeare on How Leaders Rise, Rule, and Fall by Eliot A. Cohen
Princess Leia reads books. Darth Vader reads books. Yoda reads books. Maybe not on screen (at least I don’t remember ever seeing any of them with a book), but they do in this set of magnetic bookmarks.
Book: The Great Movies by Roger Ebert
The Highway Book Shop (a.k.a “Northern Ontario’s Unexpected Treasure”) was located on a stretch of Highway 11 (at 1,800 km the second-longest highway in Ontario) just outside of the town of Cobalt. At one time the fourth-highest producer of silver in the world, Cobalt now has a population under 1,000. And if you’re ever planning on visiting, it’s really, really out there.
The Highway Book Shop was a husband-and-wife operation that began life as a print shop in 1957. I don’t know how much foot traffic they ever had, despite being a local tourist attraction, but they did have a presence online. They closed doors in 2011.
Book: Galore by Michael Crummey
This bookmark is from the Montreal Nicholas Hoare bookstore, which opened in 1971 and closed in 2012 due to the usual reasons (per the CBC: “high rent and pressure from online and big box retailers”). Plus the owner was looking to retire. The Ottawa store closed at the same time. The Toronto Nicholas Hoare stayed open for another year.
Book: Noise by Russell Smith
That looks like more than a shiver of sharks! Some friends picked this up for me when they visited North Captiva Island about ten years ago.
Book: Big Pacific by Rebecca Tansley
The Canadian Encyclopedia was the brainchild of publisher Mel Hurtig, and the first edition came out in 1985. The bookmark on the left is a promotion for it, and pictured is the original 1985 edition, which came in three handsome volumes. My father was one of the original subscribers so that’s how we came to have a copy. It sold out its initial run right away, and a second edition was published in 1988. The bookmark on the right is for a single-volume 2000 edition.
I thought it was an excellent resource and I’m glad I’ve held on to it over the years. I don’t think it’s published as a print edition anymore, having moved online.
Book: The Canadian Encyclopedia
An osprey in action, grabbing a fish. In French their name is balbuzard pêcheur, but they are not buzzards.
This brass bookmark comes from Cornovia Designs in Helston, Cornwall. Which is a place I’ve never been so I’m not sure where I got it.
Book: Crossroads by Jonathan Franzen
I don’t know if I’ve ever been in a Frank Lloyd Wright building. The only possibility is the Guggenheim Museum in New York. I know I walked past that one, but I can’t remember if I went inside.
Anyway, this is the Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio building in Oak Park, Illinois. I have a friend who’s an architect who visited it and he picked me up a bookmark. Which, as you know, is the next best thing to being there.
Book: Modern Architecture by Alan Colquhoun
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