Bookish Talk #3 – Looking for Bargains on Book Markets
Is it wrong to buy a book at a low price when you know its real (high) value? How do the street book sales in Bucharest and Sofia look like? What's special about the book market in the Hague?
Book Markets
Sometimes Somewhat Naive Covers are the Best
This cover decoration is just an ink drawing on a canvas material of the cover that wasn't even properly fixed on the cardboard. Add not-really-straight lettering, voila! Metamorphoses by Publius Ovidius Naso. German edition, from 1897.
Southbank Book Market in London
Usually, our city walks bring us to different bookish places even when I don't plan for it. This time wasn't an exception. We started from St. James Park but ended up near Waterloo Bridge, where we found Southbank Book Market.
