Ah, Spring! For the Book Elves that means its time to dig out the grill & beer cooler and spend pleasant, balmy evenings passed out in the half-dug garden amidst a welter of beer cans and potted tomato seedlings. It also means, regrettably, Spring Cleaning. As part of that ritual this year, the book Elves decided to re-organize the private library in the Cataloging Cave, which is variously described as being somewhere between “a gabajillion” and “umpty bazillion” volumes. Being Book Elves, the “re-organization” consisted of moving every single book one bookcase to the left.
But before they were lost to sight under mounds of hardcovers, softcovers, leather-covers and no-covers, the Book Elves finished our latest catalog-
CATALOG 338: RECENT ACQUISITIONS for JULY:
Books on the Fine and Decorative Arts, Antiques, Design & related subjects.