Showing posts with label book covers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label book covers. Show all posts

Saturday, February 18, 2012

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The Arts of Denmark: Viking to Modern, Danish Society of Arts, Crafts & Industrial Design, 1960

Friday, February 17, 2012

Klank in beeld

Sound into sight, N.V. Philips' Gloeilampenfabrieken, Eindhoven, 1965 (18 painters respond to music, organised and sponsored by Philips, Eindhoven)

Monday, February 13, 2012

log house

(inside front and back cover of) The Little Log House, illustrated by M. Mezheninov, translated by Irina Zheleznova, Malysh Publishers, Moscow, 1978

Friday, February 10, 2012

[inuit]

The Winnipeg Art Gallery, May 1979 (newsletter)
The Bessie Bulman Collection, The Winnipeg Art Gallery, 1973
Inuit, The Manitoba Museum of Man and Nature, Winnipeg, 1971
The Eskimo Collection of the Toronto-Dominion Bank, Toronto, 1978

(from yesterday's book market)

Wednesday, February 1, 2012

bread

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

Wednesday, January 11, 2012

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The Left-Handed Woman by Peter Handke, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, NY, 1976, 1978

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

Sunday, December 4, 2011

Wednesday, November 2, 2011

himaa

3666 by Masanao Harayama (HIMAA), Nieves, Zurich, 2011 (edition of 100) (thanks to MML!)

Monday, October 3, 2011

curriculum revision

Farm Girl by Grace Berquist, Abingdon Press, NY/Nashville, 1955

"Obsolete Due to Curriculum Revision"

previously: withdrawn and discarded (updated)

Friday, September 30, 2011

boxes and weirdos




Just a Box? by Goldie Taub Chernoff, illustrated by Margaret Hartelius, Scholastic, 1971
I Know a Lot of Things by Ann & Paul Rand, Harcourt, Brace, & World, 1956
Ed Emberley's Little Drawing Book of Weirdos by Ed Emberley, Little Brown, 1973
Lion by William Pene Du Bois, The Viking Press, 1956 (1974)

Saturday, September 24, 2011

Minibeasts and Coloured Things

Time, Ourselves, Minibeasts, Early experiences, Structures and forces, and Coloured Things, Macdonald Educational (A Unit For Teachers), published for the Schools Council by MacDonald Educational Ltd., London, 1972-1973 (For me, the contents don't quite live up to the covers, but I'll try to post the best of in the near future.)

Saturday, September 17, 2011

nothing

Rien (nothing) by Remy Charlip, illustrated by Eric Dekker, Editions MeMo, Paris, 2005 (french language)



I'll be away from here for a week or so. Bye for now.



Monday, September 12, 2011

secrets in stones

Secrets in Stones by Rose Wyler and Gerald Ames, Scholastic, 1970

Tuesday, September 6, 2011

L.C. (Family Pack)

The Energy of Slaves by Leonard Cohen, Jonathan Cape Ltd. London, 1972 (poorly designed UK edition---previously)

Sunday, August 28, 2011

speech intoned

English Diction for the Singer by Lloyd Pfautsch, Lawson-Gould Music Publishers, NY, 1971
"...drawings will show the changes of jaw, tongue, and lip position involved in the preceding sequence of vowel sounds. The overlays should make it possible for these changes to be seen graphically. Keep in mind that these positions are not meant to be absolutes."

Wednesday, August 24, 2011

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Outsider Art by Roger Cardinal, Praeger, NY, 1972

Monday, August 22, 2011

Riding Problems

Riding Problems: Basic Elements of Modern Riding Technique by Gregor de Romaszkan, Pelham Books, London, 1968 (translated from German) "a book for riders without prejudices, with thirty-four instructive photographs"

Tuesday, August 16, 2011

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Collage, Montage, Assemblage: History and Contemporary Techniques by Norman LalibertƩ and Alex Mogelon, Van Nostrand Reinhold, NY, 1971

Friday, August 12, 2011

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Artists in the Theatre, The Hatton Gallery, The University, Newcastle upon Tyne, 1986, 16 pgs.(exhibition designed and conceived by Paul Gruitt)