Do you still remember: falling stars, how they leapt slantwise through the sky like horses over suddenly held-out hurdles of our wishes—did we have so many?—
for stars, innumerable, leapt everywhere...


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This gilt and black stamped on our copy of The Man in the Moon, and Other People (1874) is stoking our romance for the 50th anniversary of the moon landing. It does leave us wondering, who are these “other people”?

Raymond, Rossiter W. The Man in the Moon, and Other People. New York : The American News Company, 1874.