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Showing posts with label Books. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Books. Show all posts

Wednesday, 2 January 2013

Grace: A Memoir




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...







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)




















(Scans by My Vintage Book Collection in Blog Form/ Where the Lovely Things Are)

Wednesday, 15 February 2012

1969


Annoyingly I can't find the copy I'm reading. It's a well good version.

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





Mixed media (on engineering and science manuals) works by Paula Swisher (via Colossal)

Tuesday, 3 January 2012

Gallery Reading

Easing the pain in the gallery with a Swift first novel... so far not as good as Waterland but no surprise there.

Wednesday, 16 November 2011

Classic First Editions

Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence, 1920

Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises, 1926

Joan Didion, Play It as It Lays, 1970

Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road, 1961

Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway, 1925

William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury, 1929

William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch, 1959.
(via Flavorwire)