Fuck Yeah, Book Arts!

“About ten days after the troops entered [Basra], the library was completely burnt down. We carried about 30,000 books to the restaurant and to our homes. Then, we transferred them from the restaurant to our homes in my own car and in cars belonging to the employees. Most of these books and manuscripts were rare and important ones. Regrettably, we lost a lot of books in the fire,” she said.

(Source: themugglelibrarian)

kittydoom:

“The Basement Stacks” by Wary Meyers

dsgn-rt:

A boy sits amid the ruins of a London bookshop following an air raid on October 8, 1940, reading a book titled “The History of London.

(via fleurishes)

lookingpost:

Extraordinarily poignant work by Bovey Lee

mounts:

by Christopher Coppers.

fullbloom:

(via a billion tastes and tunes: Georgia Russell)

losslesscompression:

(via Le livre du temps - alexandre.liziard)

(via bookron)

teachingliteracy:

by ElDel777

(via bookron)

leslieavonmiller:

wtj1cover (by luke weichmann)

teachingliteracy:

bandito-on

(via libraryland)