Showing posts with label binding illustrations. Show all posts
Showing posts with label binding illustrations. Show all posts

Saturday, December 29, 2012

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A Lollygag of Limericks by Myra Cohn Livingston, illustrated by Joseph Low, Athenium, 1978

Thursday, November 8, 2012

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Basic Woodworking Processes by Herman Hjorth, Bruce Publishing Co., 1933 (1943) 
Make It and Ride It by C.J.Maginley, Harcourt, Brace & World Inc., 1949

Tuesday, September 25, 2012

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Otto and the Magic Potatoes by William Pène du Bois, The Viking Press, NY, 1970 (binding illustration)

Friday, August 31, 2012

The Animal Kingdom























The Encyclopedia of The Animal Kingdom by Maurice and Robert Burton, Octopus, 1968 (1979 edition)

Wednesday, July 4, 2012

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Building: The Fight Against Gravity by Mario Salvadori, Atheneum, 1979

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Chinese Writing: An Introduction by Diane Wolff, Holt Reinhart & Winston, 1975

Thursday, June 14, 2012

talking book

'Scott, Foresman First Talking Storybook Box'---binding illustration detail from Over In The Meadow by John Langstaff, Harcourt, Brace/Scott, Foresman, 1957

Friday, May 11, 2012

hand lens























Adventures with a Hand Lens by Richard Headstrom, Lippincott, 1962

Saturday, April 7, 2012

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(binding illustration) The Easter Egg Artists by Adrienne Adams, Charles Scribner's Sons, NY, 1976

Sunday, April 1, 2012

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In Shadowland by Mitsumasa Anno, Orchard Books, NY, 1988 (originally published 1976)

Tuesday, March 20, 2012

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The Egg and I by Betty McDonald, J.B.Lippincott Co., 1945

Wednesday, February 1, 2012

bread

Breaking Bread Together, Herald Press, 1958
(for friends now gone home)

Tuesday, January 10, 2012

and so to

And So To Embroider: An Introduction to Embroidery, University of London Press, London, 1960
Blue and White: The Cotton Embroidery of Rural China by Muriel Baker and Margaret Lunt, Scribners, 1977 (previously)---Somehow, I never thought to look under the dust jacket until today. Always look under the dust jacket.
Embroidery by Jane Simpson, Octopus Books, London, 1973

Tuesday, September 13, 2011

quartz

(binding illustration from) Quartz by Herbert S. Zim, William Morrow and Co., NY 1981

Thursday, April 21, 2011

Modern Letters

(front and back cover of) Modern Business Letters by F. D .R. Waugh & L. Jean Cameron, The Ryerson Press, Toronto, 1950/1964

Saturday, March 12, 2011

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What We Can Believe! by Trall Engle, Ohio, 1949 (distributed by The National Spiritualist, Chicago)

Wednesday, February 2, 2011

R,S,R

Ready, Set, Read: Best Books to Prepare Preschoolers by Ellen Mahoney & Leah Wilcox, Scarecrow Press Inc., NJ, 1985

Friday, November 19, 2010

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(binding illustration from) The Three Robbers by Tomi Ungerer, Atheneum, 1962 (1977)

Friday, September 3, 2010

The Boy Who Had Wings

binding illustration from The Boy Who Had Wings by Jane Yolen, illustrated by Helga Aichinger, Crowell, NY, 1974

Saturday, March 13, 2010

WHAT THINGS ARE MADE OF by Bertha Morris Parker (The Basic Science Education Series, University of Chicago) Row, Peterson and Co., 1944