E.Decker's 1846 (Rare) Ready Reckoner with Beautiful Leather Cover and Drawing vintage billiard balls packing in all sorts of

packing in all sorts of feelings of comfort and longing

) Happily the 8 ball is

I have not tried to remove it from the frame

a storefront gallery on Elizabeth Street in NYC

and it can be set back on top most any way

E.Decker's 1846 (Rare) Ready Reckoner with Beautiful Leather Cover and Drawing vintage billiard balls packing in all sorts ofI've become so enamored of very old books as objects and for the stories they tell about the people who owned them and how they were used, such that one just feels the presence of that life on every page and this one is a case in point. The book, which its owner gave a custom leather cover with lovely hand written title on paper pasted to the front is Scriber's Ready Reckoner, published (in 1846) for ship builders, boat builders, and lumber merchants,