The 2011 most beautiful book of the year from the PWxyz blog of Publishers Weekly is the Vladimir Nabokov Pale Fire box set from Ginkgo Press.
http://blogs.publishersweekly.com/blogs/PWxyz/?p=7346
which set comes complete with faux long-hand note cards.
Mine is on order through my local bookseller, Westminster Books of Fredericton.
Note: a small ginkgo tree can be found growing in town on the east side of University Ave. not far from Charlotte Street near a weeping copper beech. Ginkgo are common in Memphis and were planted at one time near the entrance to the Cleveland Museum of Art.
Please find below an image of an Eocene fossil of Ginkgo biloba from MacAbee, B.C.
Note the cleft found in most Ginkgo leaves below:
[ images from Wikimedia Commons ]
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