Once again this week I’ve been at awe visiting a beautiful estate at Pompton Lakes, NJ. Filled with the most unique and quirky antiques — the second floor was almost entirely occupied by the study, with books touching every wall and ceiling.

















My Vintage Finds

My vintage finds: 1. Droll Stories by Balzac (1874 edition); 2. An Old-Fashioned Girl by Louisa May Alcott (1911 edition); 3. The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (extremely rare first edition, 1920); The Moon is Down by John Steinbeck (first edition, 1942); 5. Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë (1943 illustrated edition); 6. Walden by Henry David Thoreau (1966 edition); 7. Anna Karenina by Tolstoy (extremely rare first American edition, 1886); 8. Don Quixote by Cervantes (1880s edition); 9. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (first edition, 1941)