Friday, April 22, 2016

REYNOLDS MEMORABILIA: Earle's bookplate

     This was Dad's bookplate. I'm pretty sure it was designed by Ed Fisher, cartoonist for The New Yorker, who with his wife Ann lived in the room off the kitchen of our house on the corner of Whiteman and Livermore in Yellow Springs, Ohio, sometime between 1943 and 1951.
    It shows his scientific studies as a physical anthropologist and his many and varied interests as reader, playwright, actor, tennis player--before he was sent to Hiroshima to study the effects of radiation on children.
     Here is my mother's parents' bookplate.. How come no one has bookplates any more? Oh, that's right, they don;t have books.

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