... well, not yet, but I hope to find a middle-aged Mr. Adventure to marry some day (soon). However, I did find I Married Adventure by Osa Johnson today at the Book Thing!!!
I've been longing for a copy of this book ever since I saw it featured on Style Court's blog back in January 2007. The great thing about this book is its eternally chic brown and cream zebra print cloth cover. My new copy is in great shape, with a book plate dated 1940, and it's the third printing. Style Court says that it's one of the books that is most frequently seen in styled photographs in shelter magazines. Brilliant Asylum and Beach Bungalow 8, among others have also mentioned this book. In September, I commented on Brilliant's post about this book, I am praying to the gods that i find a copy of this hidden at the Book Thing... and that no-one knows what it is!.
As recently as two weeks ago, I commented to someone on my post about the Book Thing, "it is so completely totally random what you find there. I try to go every other week, but that said, it's a crap-shoot. Russell, who runs the place, told me that someone would ask about a book on the sex life of Mongolian goat herders, and low and behold, one would come in a week later. I must try that trick for "I Married Adventure".
In fact, I went to the Book Thing yesterday morning after the Load o'Fun market with Kitchenography, and the local uptown Farmers Market and had a cruise around the shelves. I went back today on the way to my mother's to drop off a huge bag of books, and thought I would just pop in for a look around. Damn if I didn't find "I Married Adventure" sitting there in the biography section in all it's zebra-striped glory. And yes, that was me doing the happy dance out of the building and telling Russell that I loved him! WOOHOO!
images: Style Court
Fairfax, that's wonderful! Congrats on your find. Enjoy.
ReplyDeleteI am so happy for you! No one deserves it more than you.
ReplyDeleteBtw your care package just arrived - gorgeous and you are just too sweet for words.
Yay! Good for you. How are you going to display yours???
ReplyDeleteI read that book and loved it. Bravo on such a great find!
ReplyDeleteHow lucky can one be?!!! Wow! I'm just a little envious.
ReplyDeleteok, what care package?!? Now, I REALLY am envious!!! I love bloggers.
ReplyDeleteJoni
You are so lucky. I tried to buy that for Ed as an anniversary present from an online dealer, and it never showed up. Thankfully, they gave me a refund.
ReplyDeleteThank you for all your sweet comments on my blog ~ I really appreciate them! I have been meaning to get over here and read through your blog ~ and what fun it is! I am looking forward to following it. Cheers!
ReplyDeleteWOW Congrats on your find !!
ReplyDeleteThe Book Thing is amazing! And that is one great looking cover.
ReplyDeleteglad you found it. The cover is so fun & different from most boring covers.
ReplyDeleteHi there.
ReplyDeleteI too have been fortunate enough to recently find a copy of I Married Adventure at Book Thing. It's the most wonderful place in the city!
Glad you got your copy. :)
How totally cool! I am prepping e-books for a trip, and was Googling around for a text of this one, just in case one existed and all that. I first read the book as a child and loved it, re-read it many times growing up, and then foolishly lent my copy to a neighbour. I'd haunted used bookshops since, years of this, and finally found another in a little place in Penticton (BC). For five dollars, yet. I'd've given fifty without blinking, and rather more with only minimal blinking.
ReplyDeleteSo I fully share in your joy. :)
I remember finding that book, decades ago in NYC, and buying it for the title. My copy has a book jacket on it and I never looked under the jacket. [pause] Ok, I just went and looked in my bookcases and I'm not finding the book. That must mean it's in an unpacked box somewhere in a closet. I'd sure like to find it and see if my copy has that awesome cover.
ReplyDeleteYour yearning, search and ultimate "find" of "I Married Adventure" is not unlike one of the plot lines in a charming little film I saw recently entitled "Definitely Maybe."
ReplyDeleteThere is always something thrilling, uncanny and deeply inexplicable in the rhythms of fate.