By its Cover: The Finer Points of Sausage Dogs by Alexander McCall Smith
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The Finer Points of Sausage Dogs by Alexander McCall Smith
The Finer Points of Sausage Dogs has a sort of classic appeal. Simple typography, unubtrusive graphics, and page-centered everything. The "Sausage Dog" (which I must assume is a Dachshund, though I haven't heard one called a sausage or weiner dog in ages) as a graphic, of course, calls out to me. "Look," it says, "a dog book." So I wander over. It's lovely, and reminds me of simple book-by-book hand lithography rather than mass-produced printing (though it's likely produced by the latter rather than the former).
I'm still always surprised when I find a relatively popular book that is so lovely. I don't know why I am. But I am.
I look forward to seeing this one in person.
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