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Schiffer Publishing Ltd Yesterday on the Chesapeake Bay
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£33.29
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Greetings from Pittsburgh Schiffer Book
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£20.69
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Greetings from Beverly Hills
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£20.69
Schiffer Publishing Ltd South Beach Postcards
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£8.54
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Jersey City A Monumental History
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£20.69
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Greetings from Houston Greetings From Paperback
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£20.69
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Greetings from Cape May
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£17.09
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Christmas Postcards A Collectors Guide
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£25.19
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Greetings from Jacksonville Florida
Book SynopsisJacksonville, a gateway to Florida by air, land, and sea, has enjoyed a rich past. 400 color images trace Jacksonville's roots. Named in honor of President Andrew Jackson, it became a favorite winter resort. This book will be treasured by historians and tourists alike, and provides a good resource for postcard collectors.
£20.69
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Greetings from Bar Harbor
Book SynopsisExplore the popular sights the rich and famous once enjoyed at Bar Harbor, Maine, and discover today''s lesser-known treasures. 147 color images capture these picturesque sights. See the area''s crown jewel, beautiful Acadia National Park. Postcard collectors will find the book a valuable resource for Maine images, and today''s tourists will uncover a kinship with visitors who came to these shores 100 years ago..
£17.09
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Greetings from Cleveland Ohio 1900 to 1960
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£23.79
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Clams Oysters and Scallops
Book SynopsisClams, oysters, and scallops have long been among the most popular seafood. Provided here is a unique and extensive examination of them, colorfully illustrated with over 350 alluring postcard and trade card images, some dating back over 100 years. A thorough text discusses the lives of these bivalves, how and where they are harvested, historical marketing strategies, their cultural and social significance, and much more. Also included is an informative look into clam bars, oyster houses, and other eateries past and present, large and small. There is also a chapter devoted to shellfish humor and a sampling of tasty recipes for readers to try. Prices are given for the cards used as illustrations. Anyone with an interest in seafood, history, or postcards will surely want to add this title to their library.
£20.69
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Nantucket Memories
Book SynopsisNantucket, that beautiful island thirty miles south of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, has been nicknamed The Gray Lady. This 48 square miles of real estate has long been, and remains, one of the premier tourist destinations in New England. Reflecting that popularity among tourists are the many vintage postcards produced of this scenic island. Exciting and beautiful examples of these postcards are captured here in 270 brilliant color photos. Nantucket is known to have the highest concentration of pre-Civil War era structures in the United States, many of which were captured in these postcards. The engaging text accompanying the photos recounts the history of Nantucket, from its early days when the island was considered the Whaling Capital of the World, through today. Also discussed are the Nantucket lighthouses and the pastimes that made a vacation trip to the island worthwhile. Values for the postcards displayed are provided in the captions as well.
£20.69
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Large Letter Postcards The Definitive Guide
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£31.44
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Pictorial Guide to RVing
Book SynopsisThis unique book presents vintage Recreational Vehicles (RVs) through 350 postcards. The text spans RV activity from the early 1900s through the 1970s, including many rare images from over 20 countries. Topics illustrated include early car and cycle camping, RV campgrounds from the 1930s through the 1970s, travel trailer advertising, Airstream, mobile homes, roadside RV scenes, amateur radio and RVing, and RVing humor. Values for the postcards are in the captions. Postcard collectors, RV enthusiasts, and history buffs now have a fascinating new treasury to refer to and enjoy.
£20.69
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Faces of Lancaster County Postcards
Book SynopsisThis beautiful book of art postcards provides 32 candid views of Amish life in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. See Amish families at work, play, and socializing in their society. The powerful photography speaks for itself and gives you a professional photographer''s view of their compelling world. The Old Order Amish settled in Pennsylvania in 1737. For over 250 years they have thrived, doubling their population every 20 years. These Amish Christians worship in their homes every other Sunday. You could not ask for better neighbors. They are always ready and willing to help in times of need. Some Amish are volunteer firemen. As you will see in these postcards, in this technology-filled 21st century, the Amish remain steadfast to their traditions, driving horse drawn carriages, maintaining businesses, farms, and homes without electricity, and farming with mule and horse power. Enjoy--and share--this unusual look into the unique world of Amish life.
£9.49
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Camper RV Humor
Book SynopsisThis amusing book covers early camping history, RV designs, road conditions, driving habits, campground issues, and more, with a twist. Things go wrong in each and every chapter, and that is where the humor arises. Some 230 photos (both black-and-white and color) of more than 290 separate postcards from the authors' personal collections illustrate the fun. Because camping and RVing are so popular all around the world, numerous postcards from Australia, Canada, England, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, and more, are included. Many images shown are quite scarce, and some are truly rare. The text and illustrations tell the humorous side of camping and RVing, past and present. All the postcards illustrated are described in detailed captions, which include each card''s age, size, maker, and estimated value. The unique approach of this new book makes it stand alone as both a resource for information and a source of good old-fashioned entertainment.
£21.84
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Paper Empires 100 Years of German Paper Soldiers
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£28.79
Schiffer Publishing Ltd The First World War on Cigarette and Trade Cards
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£36.89
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Greetings from Gettysburg
Book SynopsisVisit Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, showcased by 160 beautiful historic postcards, memorializing important and noteworthy scenes as though browsing a family picture album. The Battle of Gettysburg, fought from July 1 to July 3, 1863, with over 51,000 American casualties make this battle the single-most costly conflict fought within the United States. This book, however, is as much about the visitors to Gettysburg as it is about the soldiers and the battle struggles. See battlefields, monuments, statues, soldiers, town citizens, and beautiful landscape scenes and relive history via quotes from the writing that grace some of the greetings. Those who have been to the battlefield will recognize familiar places. For others, who have never spent time in this busy, yet tranquil, place, it will be like receiving postcards from a friend saying wish you were here or Greetings from Gettysburg.
£20.69
Chartwell Books Books Tomes Folios Sticker Color Activity Book
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£14.99
George Braziller Inc Miraj Nameh Miraculous Journey of Mahomet
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£25.00
MP - University Of Minnesota Press Minnesota on Paper Collecting Our Printed
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£17.99
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Camel Cigarette Collectibles The Early Years
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£25.19
Johns Hopkins University Press Poetic Modernism in the Culture of Mass Print
Book SynopsisHow scrapbooking, book collecting, and other ways of handling print media informed modernist poetry.In Poetic Modernism in the Culture of Mass Print, Bartholomew Brinkman argues that an emerging mass print culture conditioned the production, reception, and institutionalization of poetic modernism from the latter part of the nineteenth century through the middle of the twentieth centurywith lasting implications for the poetry and media landscape. Drawing upon extensive archival research in the United States and Britain, Brinkman demonstrates that a variety of print collecting practicesincluding the anthology, the periodical, the collage poem, volumes of selected and collected poems, and the modern poetry archivehelped structure key formal and institutional sites of poetic modernism. Brinkman focuses on the generative role of book collecting practices and the negotiation of print ephemera in scrapbooks. He also traces the evolution of the modern poetry archTrade ReviewAn indirect critique of New Criticism, Poetic Modernism will appeal to anyone interested in the intersection of modernism and cultural materialism. Recommended. ChoiceTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Poetic Modernism and the Culture of Mass Print Chapter One: As Good as Gold: Palgrave's Golden Treasury, Poetic Value, and the ObjectiveAnthologyChapter Two: Making Modern Poetry: Format, Form, and Modern Poetic GenreChapter Three: Scrapping Modernism: Marianne Moore and the Making of the Modern Collage PoemChapter Four: Selecting Modernism: Eliot, Faber, and Poetic ReproductionChapter Five: Instituting Modernism: The Rise of the Modern American Poetry ArchiveCoda: Remaking Poetic Modernism after a Culture of Mass Print NotesBibliographyIndex
£43.00
Union Square & Co. Dear You Thank You
Book SynopsisFeaturing a fill-in cover s behind an acetate flap, this âœbook as greeting cardâ features a 128 pages of beautifully designed quotes of gratitude from luminaries and historical figures. The user writes the recipientâs name on the cover and instantly creates a thoughtful gift that will be cherished for years to come.
£16.41
Arcadia Publishing Route 66 in Missouri
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£21.24
Arcadia Publishing (SC) Manistee County Postcard History
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£21.24
Arcadia Publishing (SC) Warren
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£21.24
Arcadia Publishing (SC) Springfield
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£20.39
Arcadia Publishing Lake Ronkonkoma Postcard History
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£21.24
Candlewick Press Fungarium Postcard Box Set
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£13.32
University of Massachusetts Press The Culture and Commerce of Texts: Scribal
Book SynopsisLong after the establishment of printing in England, many writers and composers still prefered to publish their work through handwritten copies. Although censorship was one reason for this persistance of the older practice, scribal publication remained the norm for texts that were required only in small numbers, or whose authors wished to avoid the ""stigma"" of print. This text considers the trade in manuscripts as an important supplement to the trade in printed books and describes the agencies that met the need for rapid duplication of key texts.
£35.84
Smithsonian Books Abecedarium: An Adult Coloring Book for
Book SynopsisA unique Smithsonian coloring book featuring the letters of the alphabet from rare illuminated books and manuscriptsAbecedarium offers artists of all ages the chance to color the pages of history: it includes two black and white versions of each alphabetical letter for readers to personalize. These letters are drawn from rare illuminated books and manuscripts of science and art of the fifteenth through the twentieth centuries. Accompanying each letter is the story of its rare book source, its artist, and its historical context. Part history, part coloring book, and part guide to selected historic books, Abecedarium is a contemplative and inspiring way to experience art, science, and culture from the Renaissance through early modern times.
£10.44
TwoMorrows Publishing American Comic Book Chronicles: The 1980s
Book SynopsisThe American Comic Book Chronicles continues its ambitious series of FULL-COLOR HARDCOVERS, where TwoMorrows' top authors document every decade of comic book history from the 1940s to today! Keith Dallas headlines this volume on the 1980s, covering all the pivotal moments and behind-the-scenes details of comics during the Reagan years! You'll get a year-by-year account of the most significant publications, notable creators, and impactful trends, including: The rise and fall of Jim Shooter at Marvel Comics! The ascendancy of Frank Miller as a comic book superstar with works like Daredevil, Ronin and The Dark Knight! DC Comics’ reboot with Crisis on Infinite Earths and its Renaissance with a British invasion of talent like Alan Moore, Grant Morrison, and Neil Gaiman! The emergence of Direct Market-exclusive publishers like Eclipse Comics, Pacific Comics, First Comics, Comico, Dark Horse Comics and others! These are just a few of the events chronicled in this exhaustive, full-color hardcover.Taken together, American Comic Book Chronicles forms a cohesive, linear overview of the entire landscape of comics history, sure to be an invaluable resource for ANY comic book enthusiast!
£41.79
TwoMorrows Publishing American Comic Book Chronicles: The 1950s
Book SynopsisThe American Comic Book Chronicles continues its ambitious series of full-color hardcovers where TwoMorrows' top authors document every decade of comic book history from the 1940s to today! Bill Schelly authors the volume on the 1950s era of Marilyn Monroe and Elvis Presley, with a year-by-year account of the most significant publications, notable creators, and impactful trends, including: the rise of the great EC "New Trend" titles (Tales of the Crypt, Weird Science), Harvey Kurtzman's Mad, and Carl Barks' classic work on Donald Duck and Uncle Scrooge! Plus, read about the publication of Dr. Fredric Wertham's notorious anti-comics book, Seduction of the Innocent, and the Senate hearings on juvenile delinquency that led to the creation of the Comics Code, changing the face of comics for decades to come!
£999.99
Grolier Club of New York Printing for Kingdom, Empire, and Republic –
Book SynopsisThis catalogue, produced to accompany a 2011 exhibition at the Grolier Club, emphasizes the importance of the French national typographic and printing establishment the Imprimerie Nationale, arguably the most important printing house in Europe. Drawing from the ancient, vast, and comprehensive archives of the Imprimerie Nationale, it documents the significant influence of the press, not only on printing and the book arts, but also on French—and therefore European—literary culture from the mid-sixteenth century to the present day. Contributions by eminent scholars H. George Fletcher, Annie Parent-Charon, Isabelle de Conihout, and James Mosley provide valuable insights into and context for the items featured.
£76.00
Grolier Club of New York The Royal Game of the Goose – Four Hundred Years
Book SynopsisBased on Adrian Seville’s own collection, this book catalogues 71 games featured in an exhibition at the Grolier Club. The book focuses on why the Game of the Goose is special and why it can lay claim to being the most influential of any printed game in the cultural history of Europe. Detailed study of the games reveals their historical provenance and gives unusual insights into the cultures that produced them, providing a rich source for the cultural historian.Trade Review“[The vivid catalogue of] the mind-opening exhibition at the Grolier Club.” -- Edward Rothstein * The Wall Street Journal *
£40.00
Grolier Club of New York One Hundred Books Famous in Children`s Literature
Book SynopsisFor her gorgeously illustrated and deeply researched contribution to the prestigious Grolier Hundred series, Chris Loker has assembled one hundred of the best known and most admired children’s books from the English language canon of classics. Organized chronologically, One Hundred Books Famous in Children’s Literature invites readers to follow the development of books written for children and printed between 1650 and 2000—from early forms of instructional primers and devotional readers, to exuberantly entertaining nursery rhymes, fairy tales, children’s novels and works of verse. Also represented are alphabets, folktales, fables, and legends; a touch-and-feel book, a rebus book, a pop-up book, and, of course, picture books. Supplementing the informative essays that accompany each selection are illuminating contributions by five internationally recognized experts in children’s literature: Brian Alderson, Nick Clark, Andrea Immel, Jill Shefrin, and Justin Schiller. This charming and intellectually stimulating volume, accessibly written to appeal to both scholars and the general public, has quickly become the classic checklist for book collectors, scholars, and anyone who loves children’s literature.Trade Review"Smart, lovingly written." * New York Times *"Child lit for the ages." * Wall Street Journal *"A sumptuous volume." * Times Literary Supplement *
£64.23
Grolier Club of New York French Book Arts – Manuscripts, Books, Bindings,
Book SynopsisCelebrating a thousand years of French Book Arts, this catalogue’s 159 entries are scrupulously annotated and contextualized by the award-winning scholar and curator H. George Fletcher. Drawn from the Grolier Club’s permanent collections, and representing artifacts from the libraries of such important figures as Madame Pompadour, Marie Antoinette, Count Hoym, Jean-Baptiste Colbert, and Adolf Hitler, the items make up a treasure trove—from a magnificent twelfth-century manuscript of Gregory the Great's commentary on Job to recent artists' books and designer book bindings. Highlights include manuscript and printed illuminated Books of Hours, early printed books, bindings from seven centuries, a letter from Jefferson to his Parisian bookseller, portrait prints of the great and the good, commemorative medals, and documents.Table of ContentsForewordIntroductionI. ManuscriptsII. IncunabulaIII. 16th CenturyIV. Jean GrolierV. 17th CenturyVI. 18th CenturyVII. 19th CenturyVIII. 20th CenturyIX. 21st CenturyX. Medallions, Trade Cards, and StatuaryXI. PrintsBibliographyIndex
£60.00
Grolier Club of New York Westward the Course of Empire – Exploring and
Book SynopsisIn the nineteenth century, the exploration and settlement of the West exploded. During the 58 years between the Louisiana Purchase and the Civil War, the United States expanded from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean, and, in the far West, from the 32nd Parallel to the 49th. By the late 1850s, almost all of these areas had been mapped and explored. Among the many iconic maps featured in this catalogue, which accompanied an exhibition at the Grolier Club, is Lewis and Clark's map of the Northwest. Published in 1814, it remained the standard against which all mapping of that part of North America was measured for decades.Trade Review"This is a fine volume that I am certain will interest map collectors, cartographic historians, and institutional repositories and archives. It is worth embarking on this guided tour through the cartographic history of western North America." * The Portolan *
£40.61
Grolier Club of New York Poet of the Body – New York`s Walt Whitman
Book SynopsisPublished in conjunction with an eponymous Grolier Club exhibition, this catalogue presents the story of Walt Whitman’s coming of age as a poet through a unique assemblage of rare books, manuscripts, and artifacts, many never before seen, from the Whitman Collection of Susan Jaffe Tane, archives such as the Feinberg Collection at the Library of Congress and the New York Public Library's Berg Collection, private family collections, and forgotten treasures from Bryn Mawr College's Special Collections and the Brooklyn College Library.
£52.00
Grolier Club of New York Hermann Zapf and the World He Designed – A
Book SynopsisPublished to accompany the 2019 Grolier Club exhibition Alphabet Magic: A Centennial Exhibition of the Work of Hermann & Gudrun Zapf, Herman Zapf and the World He Designed is the first comprehensive biography of Hermann Zapf (1918–2015), whom Robert Bringhurst has called "the greatest type designer of our time, and very possibly the greatest type designer of all time.” Informed by Jerry Kelly’s scrupulous research at the Hermann Zapf archive in the Herzog August Bibliothek in Wolfenbüttel and at the Cary Collection at the Rochester Institute of Technology, and enriched by his decades of conversations with Zapf and his associates, this fascinating account of Zapf’s life details his experiences with type companies, printers, publishers, and colleagues. It also explores Zapf’s modern design aesthetic and engagement with the staggering technological advances of typography during the twentieth century. Featuring rarities and never-before-seen works and photos, Herman Zapf and the World He Designed features definitive lists of Zapf's type designs and major calligraphic works. It is not, however, merely an in-depth appreciation of Zapf's work but also an insightful consideration of his work in relation to his life.
£39.00
Getty Trust Publications The Colors of New World – Artists, Materials, and
Book SynopsisThis is a penetrating glimpse into the first illustrated encyclopaedia of the New World. In August 1576, in the midst of an outbreak of the plague, the Spanish Franciscan friar Bernardino de Sahagun and 22 indigenous artists locked themselves inside the school of Santa Cruz de Tlaltelolco in Mexico City with a mission: to create the first illustrated encyclopedia in the New World. Today this twelve-volume manuscript is preserved in the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana in Florence and is widely known as the Florentine Codex. A monumental achievement, the Florentine Codex is the single most important artistic and historical document for studying the peoples and cultures of pre-Hispanic and colonial Central Mexico. It reflects both indigenous and Spanish traditions of writing and painting, including parallel columns of text in Spanish and Nahuatl and more than two thousand watercolour illustrations prepared in European and Aztec pictorial styles. This volume reveals the complex meanings inherent in the selection of the pigments used in the manuscript, offering a fascinating glimpse into a previously hidden symbolic language. Drawing on cutting edge approaches in art history, anthropology, and material sciences, the book sheds new light on one of the world's great manuscripts - and a pivotal moment in the early modern Americas.
£16.59
Chronicle Books The Madman's Library: The Strangest Books,
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£26.92
Bodleian Library Medieval Manuscripts from the Collection of T.R. Buchanan in the Bodleian Library, Oxford
Book SynopsisThis catalogue describes 24 manuscripts from the collection of Thomas Ryburn Buchanan presented to the Bodleian Library in 1939 and 1941, including illuminated manuscripts from before the mid-sixteenth century. The collection consists primarily of late medieval devotional books from France, the Netherlands and renaissance Italy. It includes "Books of Hours", half of which are French and date from the fifteenth or early sixteenth century, a Bridgettine Breviary, a Milanese Breviary, a ferial Psalter, a Psalter of c 1300 and three Italian humanistic texts. A notable feature of the collection is the number of manuscripts with early and fine bindings. The illustrated catalogue gives detailed descriptions of the manuscripts - their texts, illumination, and codicological characteristics (including bindings).
£25.12
Islandport Press Forever Yours, Boston, Cape Cod and the Islands: Antique Postcard Images of Historic Beantown and Beyond
£18.99
Harrassowitz A Poetomar. Sinnphobie Der Worte: Blaise Pascal -
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£999.99
