fredag den 29. april 2016

Apfelstrudel


Perhaps apfelstrudel — or mucus — in Leben und Meinungen von Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, Universal-Bibliotek Nr. 1441 [8], Philipp Reclam Jun. Stuttgart, 1982. — This beautiful very compressed yellow edition of Tristram Shandy was found at the "flohmarkt" at Mauerpark, Berlin, — in a 1.5 meters yellow row of other — also great titles in the Reclam series. 

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Readers exclamation mark in Leben und Ansichten von Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, Galiani Verlag, Berlin 2015. Copy at the Amerika-Gedenkbibliothek in Berlin. Stamped: "Pflicht Exemplar ZLB - Zentral- und Landesbibliothek Berlin" and the annotation: "L432 Ster 50 h" in pencil on titlepage.

torsdag den 28. april 2016

*


Lots of * in Leben und Meinungen von Tristram Shandy Gentleman, Insel Verlag, Berlin 2013. Copy at the Amerika-Gedenkbibliothek in Berlin. Stamped: "Pflicht Exemplar ZLB - Zentral- und Landesbibliothek Berlin" on titlepage.
* [asterisk]: Figure used in printing and writing to indicate footnote, omission, etc.," late 14c., asterich, asterisc, from Late Latin asteriscus, from Greek asterikos "little star," diminutive of aster "star" (see astro- ). As a verb in english from 1733

tirsdag den 26. april 2016

Nur Ihre eigene Phantasie...


Printed frame for the readers drawing in Leben und Meinungen von Tristram Shandy Gentleman, Insel Verlag, Berlin 2013. Copy at the Amerika-Gedenkbibliothek in Berlin. Stamped: "Pflicht Exemplar ZLB - Zentral- und Landesbibliothek Berlin" on titlepage. 

mandag den 25. april 2016

Double Black


Spread with two black pages in Leben und Meinungen von Tristram Shandy Gentleman, Insel Verlag, Berlin 2013. Copy at the Amerika-Gedenkbibliothek in Berlin. Stamped: "Pflicht Exemplar ZLB - Zentral- und Landesbibliothek Berlin" on titlepage. 

onsdag den 20. april 2016

Shandy on Air


There is still time for the world — until 24th. april — to listen to the BBC4 Program (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0418phf ) where Melvyn Bragg with his guests Judith Hawly, John Mullan and Judith Newbould takes us on vividly digressive tour through Sterne and Shandy.