Did anyone else get this for Christmas? I got it in my stocking (yes, I still have a stocking at 27, and an incredible one at that! This year was very fashion and vintage orientated - I also got the documentary on Bill Cunningham, something I will cover shortly...). I'm not far through Grace's memoir so I can't give a thorough review but so far I'm enchanted with her blunt, quite cynical take on her own path to fame as well as her very ordinary upbringing. What makes it even more down-to-earth and endearing is her little illustrations throughout. Here's just a few...
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Showing posts with label Books. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Books. Show all posts
Wednesday, 2 January 2013
Monday, 24 December 2012
Jessica Hische and Penguin Classics
Jessica Hische has designed a Penguin Classics series to add to their beautiful back catalogue of editions. Here Hische chooses a different author to represent each letter of the alphabet. We see the likes of Austen, Dickens and Flaubert among the chosen classics - each in a different font design and gorgeous elaborate drop cap.
The first five books are out now... (via The Terrier and Lobster)Monday, 9 April 2012
Tales From the Ballet
Tales from the Ballet - adapted by Louis Untermeyer, illustrated by Alice & Martin Provensen (1968)
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| (Scans by My Vintage Book Collection in Blog Form/ Where the Lovely Things Are) |
Wednesday, 15 February 2012
Tuesday, 24 January 2012
Sunday, 15 January 2012
Birds in Books
"I’ve been using scientific imagery and information graphics off and on
in my work. I seem to be drawn to the contrived sense of order that they
show. In the drawings mentioned, superimposing bird imagery, hopefully,
creates a visual metaphor for our attempts to make sense of our
experiences." Paula Swisher
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| Mixed media (on engineering and science manuals) works by Paula Swisher (via Colossal) |
Tuesday, 3 January 2012
Gallery Reading
Wednesday, 16 November 2011
Classic First Editions
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| Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence, 1920 |
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| Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises, 1926 |
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| Joan Didion, Play It as It Lays, 1970 |
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| Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road, 1961 |
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| Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway, 1925 |
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| William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury, 1929 |
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| William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch, 1959. |
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