I love reading and collecting books.Tumblr (3.0; @matyus)http://matyus.tumblr.com/<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/b99c7604a6b1b90af71ef957b5b65915/tumblr_mmtcjxuINv1qbplj6o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>These are a few of my favorite things</p>http://matyus.tumblr.com/post/50457194903http://matyus.tumblr.com/post/50457194903Tue, 14 May 2013 20:11:57 -0400“But should a man carry out impossible orders knowing what they lead to? Even though they come from Golz, who is the party as well as the army? Yes. He should carry them out because it is only in the performing of them that they can prove to be impossible. How do you know they are impossible until you have tried them? If everyone said orders were impossible to carry out when they were received where would you be? Where would we all be if you just said, “Impossible,” when orders came?”<br/><br/> - <em>For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway</em>http://matyus.tumblr.com/post/49774231552http://matyus.tumblr.com/post/49774231552Mon, 06 May 2013 10:04:22 -0400hemingwayfor whom the bell tollsimpossibleimpossibility<a href="http://royalrex.tumblr.com/post/47829997997/the-elixir-of-life-by-honore-de-balzac">: The Elixir of Life by Honoré de Balzac </a>: <p><a href="http://royalrex.tumblr.com/post/47829997997/the-elixir-of-life-by-honore-de-balzac" class="tumblr_blog">royalrex</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>TO THE READER</p> <p>At the very outset of the writer’s literary career, a friend, long since dead, gave him the subject of this Study. Later on he found the same story in a collection published about the beginning of the present century. To the best of his belief, it is some stray fancy of the brain of…</p></blockquote>http://matyus.tumblr.com/post/47834045922http://matyus.tumblr.com/post/47834045922Fri, 12 Apr 2013 23:11:48 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/53c2d7d86e0947a90d3f6211624a8ca5/tumblr_mkhwzdYsmk1qbplj6o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>new years resolutions: make it big, buy @marsdooney house in brooklyn heights</p>http://matyus.tumblr.com/post/46708060062http://matyus.tumblr.com/post/46708060062Sat, 30 Mar 2013 18:54:48 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/61af88543388984f8447394843f601f2/tumblr_mk7911SQW01qbplj6o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://matyus.tumblr.com/post/46229422979http://matyus.tumblr.com/post/46229422979Mon, 25 Mar 2013 00:41:25 -0400gibransolitudeseclusion<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/3982bab96e85784ba42c9aa3a4b39fba/tumblr_mj26kuBm181qbplj6o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Something special came in the mail today (there goes my weekend)</p>http://matyus.tumblr.com/post/44411915561http://matyus.tumblr.com/post/44411915561Sat, 02 Mar 2013 19:26:53 -0500<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/07ec98f96f4e27d6ed1c6057a5dcf6eb/tumblr_miwr6uovsi1qbplj6o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>ah, #Camus can see the moon in the spoon.</p>http://matyus.tumblr.com/post/44185774537http://matyus.tumblr.com/post/44185774537Wed, 27 Feb 2013 21:06:30 -0500camus<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/7777582bab1d81c406b63dc218f056e6/tumblr_miqpvh9tmJ1qbplj6o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>#borzoi #aaknopf #knopf</p>http://matyus.tumblr.com/post/43915780718http://matyus.tumblr.com/post/43915780718Sun, 24 Feb 2013 14:52:29 -0500knopfborzoiaaknopf<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/1f986df22f2639b6fd8fa69b5c1a2172/tumblr_milnhajr7U1qbplj6o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Go see “Freedom”, pop-up show and book release by @georgegnarlywood, at Bunnycutlet Gallery - 158 Roebling Street, Brooklyn!</p>http://matyus.tumblr.com/post/43690508164http://matyus.tumblr.com/post/43690508164Thu, 21 Feb 2013 21:12:46 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/2df367afd28665e9f70b347f79013f17/tumblr_miliiqqg6h1qbplj6o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>masterful design and letterpress printing, thanks @swayspace!</p>http://matyus.tumblr.com/post/43681864600http://matyus.tumblr.com/post/43681864600Thu, 21 Feb 2013 19:25:38 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/565ede3ee2b74a20083c43dba6c8bc98/tumblr_midhj2rjFI1qbplj6o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>#Schumann</p>http://matyus.tumblr.com/post/43317438776http://matyus.tumblr.com/post/43317438776Sun, 17 Feb 2013 11:23:26 -0500schumann<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/2a9ff0af9e98cb315b1e2cc15fffd089/tumblr_midgxmw7ES1qbplj6o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Excerpt from the back cover of the Pablo Casals renditions of #Schumann</p>http://matyus.tumblr.com/post/43316568433http://matyus.tumblr.com/post/43316568433Sun, 17 Feb 2013 11:10:34 -0500schumann“We watched the beginning of the evening of the last night of the fiesta. The absinthe made everything seem better. I drank it without sugar in the dripping glass, and it was pleasantly bitter.”<br/><br/> - <em>The Sun Also Rises, by Ernest Hemingway</em>http://matyus.tumblr.com/post/43231333072http://matyus.tumblr.com/post/43231333072Sat, 16 Feb 2013 11:05:58 -0500hemingwayernest hemingwaythe sun also risessun also risesabsinthebittersugar<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/28fd33c7cf97c2b23333bf8f639cc44d/tumblr_mi44xrQnNB1qbplj6o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Cooper Fullface developmentsl drawings, 1929 – Slide presented by @PaulShawLetters at @CooperType (#latergram) (at The Cooper Union)</p>http://matyus.tumblr.com/post/42926441955http://matyus.tumblr.com/post/42926441955Tue, 12 Feb 2013 10:13:03 -0500latergram<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/350d336258607d5329d5b1b28e73512e/tumblr_mi325byfvN1qbplj6o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Cooper Black Italic developmental drawing 1925 – slide presented by @PaulShawLetters at @CooperType</p>http://matyus.tumblr.com/post/42885483567http://matyus.tumblr.com/post/42885483567Mon, 11 Feb 2013 20:15:11 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/4e6275399af1b626f547aa57cc14b11e/tumblr_mhneaj8iW31qbplj6o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>A detailed bit of history of a typeface in the #colophon of The Possessed, a play by #Camus (adapted from the novel of the same name by #Dostoyevsky). A #Knopf publication.</p>http://matyus.tumblr.com/post/42186104997http://matyus.tumblr.com/post/42186104997Sun, 03 Feb 2013 09:15:55 -0500camusdostoyevskycolophonknopf<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/3cc3e820fed8f4b2b9ee74e91477d5e3/tumblr_mhm473pLcu1qbplj6o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>is it a coincidence that we live down the street from the best fucking pie in new york city? thanks @marsdooney (at Four & Twenty Blackbirds)</p>http://matyus.tumblr.com/post/42130167330http://matyus.tumblr.com/post/42130167330Sat, 02 Feb 2013 16:40:14 -0500<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/87b0a882c4c2f657f839ae146f07cdb0/tumblr_mgl4yvabOc1qbplj6o1_500.jpg"/><br/> Volume 1, Front Cover<br/><br/> <img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/8cc53fcb1f3f849ad958edd0fb7f5b6d/tumblr_mgl4yvabOc1qbplj6o2_500.jpg"/><br/> Volume 1, Back Cover<br/><br/> <img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/e8cdb1d9a686962eed09c7783cc08711/tumblr_mgl4yvabOc1qbplj6o3_r1_500.jpg"/><br/> Volume 2, Front Cover<br/><br/> <img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/04659b0d7558eccf0acc740a494cba35/tumblr_mgl4yvabOc1qbplj6o4_r2_500.jpg"/><br/> Volume 2, Back Cover<br/><br/> <img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/df677830d6a7df937f4ee39f9efe6683/tumblr_mgl4yvabOc1qbplj6o5_500.jpg"/><br/> Volume 3, Front Cover<br/><br/> <img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/ea60fe849f97116e93e514faa1eec190/tumblr_mgl4yvabOc1qbplj6o6_500.jpg"/><br/> Volume 3, Back Cover<br/><br/> <p>Remembrance of Things Past (or In Search for Lost Time) by Marcel Proust</p>http://matyus.tumblr.com/post/41619925909http://matyus.tumblr.com/post/41619925909Sun, 27 Jan 2013 12:30:06 -0500marcel proustproustremembrance of things pastin search for lost timemy booksbook coverfrench literature<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/12facc3e2af4d43be3fc83a79e77d880/tumblr_mgl4nxNtDK1qbplj6o1_500.jpg"/><br/> Front Cover<br/><br/> <img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/cec01e7d03651eccfb3d479a4bfed45d/tumblr_mgl4nxNtDK1qbplj6o2_500.jpg"/><br/> Back Cover<br/><br/> <p>Broon by Erin Jane Nelson</p> <p>Published by Gottlund Verlag</p>http://matyus.tumblr.com/post/41532520286http://matyus.tumblr.com/post/41532520286Sat, 26 Jan 2013 12:30:09 -0500broongottlund verlagerin jane nelsonletterpressphotographydiy<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/a666b2422eaab6627b29005a6b90152e/tumblr_mgl4e3Mt611qbplj6o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge by Rainer Maria Rilke</p>http://matyus.tumblr.com/post/41448986925http://matyus.tumblr.com/post/41448986925Fri, 25 Jan 2013 12:30:25 -0500notebooks of malte laurid briggesrainer maria rilkerilkemy booksbook coverletteringtypographygraphic design