How do you tell a valuable French book?' 'First there are the pictures. Then it is a question of the quality of the pictures. Then it is the binding. If a book is good, the owner will have it bound properly. All books in English are bound, but bound badly. There is no way of judging them.
Ernest HemingwayI was young and not gloomy and there were always strange and comic things that happened in the worst time.
Ernest Hemingway