A Field Guide to Seashells of our Atlantic Coast, Percy Morris, 1947 painted ceramic whistle muscled arms and huge hands

muscled arms and huge hands with individuated fingers--altogether a pure embodiment of endurance and fortitude

The yarn has held its color very well (the color is bright and everything is super readable)

but I sure love him

the other alternating wood and what appears to be horn

This 1911 special edition of Longfellow’s "Voices of the Night" features a padded white cover with great gold text and flourishes framing a river view

A Field Guide to Seashells of our Atlantic Coast, Percy Morris, 1947 painted ceramic whistle muscled arms and huge handsJust a lovely little book, which I thought would make the perfect gift for the friend of family member with the east coast beach house you are more than ready to descend upon or to send by way of invitation to friends, should you be the one with the house and ready for visitors! I believe this 1947 copy is a first edition, and is chock full of pretty full page photographs of shells grouped by type, and very readable entries describing many hundreds of