Auchincloss *bit more* in The Book Book

I took Tales of Manhattan by Louis Auchincloss to work with me today.

Like so many beautiful women (or at least like so many former beauties) she was instinctively, pointlessly if you wish, a politician with no visible goal beyond the compulsion to please.

Old picture. My hair is shorter and there is now a coffee pot on the counter. This was before I gave up pop and wheat. And before Gracie had to eat my pizza bottoms.

• bit more *

The book is too good to take to work. It's a hardcover, first printing, copyrights 1964 through 1967. It has a good dust jacket with a full page really nice photo of the author and his son on the back. The dustcover has a plastic cover - I think the book store guy put that on. I put it in a plastic bag in my tote bag but it gets banged around pretty bad. I need to find a less 'nice' book to take with me to work.

Not that books lead an easy life in my house. You can imagine.