• Blog
    • About ContessasHome (revised)
  • Contact Us

ContessasHome formerly Contessa's

~ Vintage fine and decorative art, lamps, mirrors, chandeliers, small occasional furniture pieces, classic "hard cover"books, vintage "smalls", and handmade decorative art craft

ContessasHome formerly Contessa's

Category Archives: “Classic” Hard Cover Books

Rare and Unique Hard Cover Volumes

A New Novel

10 Tuesday Nov 2020

Posted by ContessasHome in "Classic" Hard Cover Books, Today's Update

≈ Comments Off on A New Novel

Contessa enjoys recommending good reads. This is a special one. We are half way through this delightful book. We certainly recommend it.

A “Small Town” very wholesome story.  It just feels …..s w e e t !!

Enjoy!!

Ahab’s Wife – a novel

21 Wednesday Oct 2020

Posted by ContessasHome in "Classic" Hard Cover Books, Today's Update

≈ Comments Off on Ahab’s Wife – a novel

An excerpt from this cherished book…….

**************************

I convey this message…….

Every day I knocked on his door and he on mine. I felt a happiness at our being merely in the same room that transcended any specific language.

Strange it is,  that as I use language, as I shape it into re-creations of people and places, I can feel its inadequacy.  It can serve to describe the past; it cannot describe what I presently feel.

….a plea of understanding. We are friends. Be my friend forever is what is in my heart. My soul mate.

There is only one hand for me, and that is yours. When I will squeeze your hand, then my heart will be….home.

“Be my friend forever” he said.

“Yes, but what am I to do with that flare of feeling that comes when a woman loves a man because they are woman and man?”

*******
Great literature speaks for itself.  An epic novel.  

 

WALDEN……..a book for our time

21 Monday Sep 2020

Posted by ContessasHome in "Classic" Hard Cover Books, Today's Update

≈ Leave a comment


Walden May be the most famous act of “social distancing.”

It’s also a lesson on the importance of community while you are sheltering in place.  

In 1845, a shy young man named Henry David Thoreau “went to the woods to live deliberately.” Using old boards from a nearby shanty, he and a few friends built a small cabin near Walden Pond in Concord, Mass. Determined to break a spell of writer’s block, he stayed there more than two years, trying to “suck out all the marrow of life.”

He was not always alone during this time, as some carping high school student will point out. But Thoreau’s experiment, immortalized in “Walden; or, Life in the Woods,” became the world’s most famous act of social distancing.

Since the coronavirus quarantine began in the United States tens of millions of us have begun something like Thoreau’s retreat, but with a better Internet connection. As the days accumulate into weeks and then months, the burden of remaining cloistered has surely grown more challenging. Thoreau went there before us. He knew there can be contentment alone, just as often as there can be loneliness among company.

Read this book in spurts….. it will bring new meaning to your COVID isolation.

 

my book guy……I miss u!!!

31 Friday Aug 2018

Posted by ContessasHome in "Classic" Hard Cover Books, Today's Update

≈ Leave a comment

Little Women on PBS Tonight

14 Monday May 2018

Posted by ContessasHome in "Classic" Hard Cover Books, Today's Update

≈ Leave a comment

Viewing the premier of Little Women right now on PBS. A true classic and we have the book, a vintage copy listed now on Etsy.com at ContessasHome.

Enjoy this wonderful story.

 

 

SOLD – Literary Volume – MONET, A Retrospective

09 Sunday Jul 2017

Posted by ContessasHome in "Classic" Hard Cover Books, Classic Art volumes, Sold Today, Today's Update

≈ Leave a comment

SOLD  today to our new Etsy customer in Chicago. It’s a superb and flawless 1985 edition. Original purchase price was $75.00. Another very happy customer who is presenting this book as a “gift.”  We are thrilled when our books sell. Some of us still love the feel of a book in our hand.

SOLD – Literary Volume – Monet’s Table

07 Saturday Jan 2017

Posted by ContessasHome in "Classic" Hard Cover Books, Sold Today, Today's Update

≈ Leave a comment

SOLD today on Etsy.com by ContessasHome. Thanks to our new buyer in Chicago. $38 USD. Enjoy!!!
img_0928

SOLD Today – Literary Volume

31 Sunday Jul 2016

Posted by ContessasHome in "Classic" Hard Cover Books, Classic Art volumes, Community Affairs, Sold Today, Today's Update

≈ Leave a comment

Sold today on etsy.com  Check it out at ContessasHome  $22


image image

SOLD TODAY – Literary Volumes, Classic Little Women and Gone With The Wind, Vintage Editions

19 Sunday Jun 2016

Posted by ContessasHome in "Classic" Hard Cover Books, Sold Today, Today's Update

≈ Leave a comment

SOLD Today at ContessasHome on etsy.com to our buyer in Indiana. Purchased at $55.

Check out our other listings on ETSY or on eBay at  ContessasHome 2016
image image

SOLD – Versailles, Illustrated History Volume

18 Wednesday May 2016

Posted by ContessasHome in "Classic" Hard Cover Books, Classic Art volumes, Sold Today, Today's Update

≈ Leave a comment

Versailles a historical monument; an informative history of the monument, illustrated in color and black and white; a selection of literary excerpts about the monument and a comprehensive reference section. Versailles, the palace is a true Wonder of Man. Built by King Louis XIV because he was in love with a women and a place. Versailles is the most popular visit in France, even to this day This volume is a fresh history lesson and the pictorials definitely take you to this magnificent place. 9″ x 11.5″ x 3/4″ If you have not visited Versailles this book will urge you on to do so. If you have visited this grand chateau, this book is a wonderful memory of the magnificent opulence of this time period in France’s long history.

image image image image image imageSold today on etsy.com at ContessasHome.

← Older posts

Subscribe

  • Entries (RSS)
  • Comments (RSS)

Archives

  • January 2021
  • December 2020
  • November 2020
  • October 2020
  • September 2020
  • August 2020
  • July 2020
  • June 2020
  • May 2020
  • April 2020
  • March 2020
  • December 2018
  • November 2018
  • September 2018
  • August 2018
  • June 2018
  • May 2018
  • March 2018
  • February 2018
  • January 2018
  • December 2017
  • November 2017
  • October 2017
  • August 2017
  • July 2017
  • June 2017
  • May 2017
  • March 2017
  • February 2017
  • January 2017
  • December 2016
  • November 2016
  • October 2016
  • September 2016
  • August 2016
  • July 2016
  • June 2016
  • May 2016
  • April 2016
  • March 2016
  • February 2016
  • January 2016
  • December 2015
  • November 2015
  • October 2015
  • September 2015
  • August 2015
  • July 2015
  • June 2015
  • May 2015
  • April 2015
  • March 2015
  • February 2015
  • January 2015
  • December 2014
  • November 2014
  • October 2014
  • September 2014
  • August 2014
  • July 2014
  • June 2014
  • May 2014
  • April 2014
  • March 2014
  • February 2014
  • January 2014
  • December 2013
  • November 2013
  • October 2013
  • September 2013
  • August 2013
  • July 2013
  • June 2013
  • May 2013
  • April 2013
  • February 2013
  • December 2012
  • November 2012
  • October 2012
  • June 2012
  • May 2012
  • April 2012
  • March 2012
  • January 2012
  • November 2011
  • October 2011
  • September 2011
  • August 2011
  • July 2011
  • May 2011
  • April 2011
  • March 2011
  • February 2011
  • January 2011
  • December 2010
  • November 2010
  • October 2010
  • September 2010
  • August 2010
  • July 2010
  • June 2010

Categories

  • "Classic" Hard Cover Books
  • Art
  • Birds
  • Classic Art volumes
  • Community Affairs
  • Del Ray UMC
  • Downton Abbey Tour
  • eBay
  • Garden Tips
  • Handmade
  • Helpful Tips
  • Lighting
  • New Products
  • Pinterest
  • Professional Services
  • Sale Items
  • Sold Today
  • Special Events
  • Today's Update
  • Uncategorized
  • United Methodist Women – UMW
  • Vintage Acquisitions
  • Vintage Smalls
  • WELCOME!
  • Wrought Iron
  • Yoga (Hatha)

Meta

  • Register
  • Log in

Blog at WordPress.com.

Cancel