Treasures

Today's Treasures: Engraving, Book and Grow-Your-Own-Rubber Ducky

Those of you who know me well know that my passions in life are simple: Coffee, Kids and Books. Coffee is my comfort food, I've wanted to be a mother all my life, and Books have been my dear friends since the beginning of time ;)

Well today my friend Butler introduced me to my new version of heaven: Tom Williams Rare Books. Add a coffee machine and a baby of my own to cuddle and teach, and so help me, I could want for nothing more in life. I want to live there.

I thought I'd been to every Used Book Store on the Red Mile, but Tom Williams' is an unassuming door across MacLeod Trail from the Stampede Grounds and Saddle Dome. Much like a wizard door in Harry Potter, you'd have to be a book lover to notice it there. You open the door to a delightful waft of musty-book-smell and go down the stairs into a veritable wonderland of hardcover books, first editions, engravings, strange old records, etc. Books piled to the sky, shelves filled tightly around you, enormous, delicious, quiet, beautiful. Excitement trilled in my stomach. I wanted to read every book I saw. I wanted to hunker down on the floor and just start reading, and never leave. I was a junkie surrounded by a life-time supply.

I'm very proud to announce that I limited myself to an engraving of a ship for my mum, and ONE book for myself: "Mistress Beatrice Cope" by M.E. Le Clerc. Once again, the cover drew me in. I know nothing about it except it was in the "mystery" section, and was once owned by a Mrs. N. Arnold of Edmonton. Even the page with the publication date has been removed.

It was very nice to see Butler again after so long. I don't know about him, but I had a lot of fun :) He even bought me a "Grow Your Own Rubber Ducky". I will document Ducky's growth in a later post. For now I am soooo tired, and am off to bed.

I wish you all endless shelves of the things you love. Thanks Butler, for introducing me to this delightful place!
~g~