Yesterday, the youngin and I went up to Bellingham for the day and happened to stop in the Eclipse Bookstore, a FANTASTIC used bookstore. It takes up two stories and has some real treasures. For some perspective, here's a photo I took near the main stacks upstairs, looking out onto a deck and at Bellingham Bay.
In those stacks, there were regional book sections and I found The Vancouver Book, an almanac of information about the city, it's history, people, resources, etc. It is so intriguing and idiosyncratic that I brought it home and decided to give a feel for the book by posting some pictures in/from it.
First, the front and back covers:
And then there's its horoscope. yes, the author thought it would be useful to take the book's horoscope and include it in the book:
And some of the chapter illustrations.
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