Books, culture, economic history. Enterprise Fellow @UniMelb. Author of Alice, Argyle, The Library, Shakespeare’s Library, Penguin & the Lane Brothers @latrobe

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On the desk today #Penguins #PenguinFounders
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Presentation in the Temple St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 371; Epistolary; third quarter of the 11th century; St. Gall/Reichenau; p.21 (e-codices.ch/en/list/one/csg…)
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"Freebury-Jones will explore the prevailing affinity between kingship, Shakespeare and the Welsh narrative". acecx.org/news/owain-and-hen…
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I found a signed Martin Amis for a buck yesterday. It’s a paperback, it’s falling apart, it’s not worth any lucre, but I have Martin Amis’s handwriting in my house now.
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"Easycare Cesarine lets you decorate-it-yourself easily and economically..." (xitter.cf/LaurenRosewarne/status…) Cesarine "... the wonder cloth". Australian Women's Weekly, 1966.
"Designed for Easycare..." (xitter.cf/LaurenRosewarne/status…) Cesarine "... the wonder cloth". Australian Women's Weekly, 1964.
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A superb fairywren on Cooleman Ridge
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E. M. Forster / Aspects of the Novel Harvest Books
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Italian graphic design in the ’50s and ’60s was on another level. A selection of Olivetti advertisements.
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"tape it alive with National!..." (xitter.cf/LaurenRosewarne/status…) National. Australasian Post, 1966.
"National makes playback like listening to live performance. This is the result of the intensive research. fine workmanship and quality materials..." (xitter.cf/LaurenRosewarne/status…) National Tape Recorders. Pix, 1964.
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Iconic cover George Orwell / Animal Farm Signet
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Sony Liberty CD (1983)
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It was as if the whole city had crashed about my ears. I walked about in it aimlessly as survivors must walk about the streets of their native city after an earthquake, amazed to find how much that had been familiar was changed. — Lawrence Durrell, The Alexandria Quartet
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"Sometimes hazy, occasionally wistful, often picaresque chapters are delivered with a satirist's perfect understated pitch and announced John McNally...as a gifted meta-memoirist." —Washington Post
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JVC&SHPAP ビンテージラジカセ❤💙
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1985年、ソニーは振動を抑えるために画期的なセラミック素材を採用したカセットテープ「HF-Pro」を発売。音の忠実な再現性を追求し、より高音質な録音・再生を実現しました。
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Space Wars: Fact and Fiction by Bob Layzell (1980)
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Gooday
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The #BlueBeetle 🪲 In Three Places At Once… In #MysteryMen Comics Every Month! In his Own Quarterly Comic! 🔹 On the #Radio twice a week! 🐞🪲 Consult Your Local Listings…
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