NILS, NIX, NADDA, NUTTIN’

I PICKED up The Wonderful Adventures of Nils by Selma Lagerlof at the op shop. I don’t know the story, or the author (inside it says she w...



I PICKED up The Wonderful Adventures of Nils by Selma Lagerlof at the op shop. I don’t know the story, or the author (inside it says she was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1909), but liked the printed cloth cover. It reminds me of Lara Cameron’s Houses and Bicycles print. I also liked how it felt to hold. The pages are soft, but heavy, and there is no smell of stale cigarettes, which would suggest it came from a smoke-free home – pretty rare, I'm guessing, for 1956, which is the year this edition was published.

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