October 2009

Wooden Books

Isaiah Berlin, c.1988 and Library, 1986-7

From Saul Steinberg: Illuminations, Yale University Press, 2006

Fritz Der Wolkenfahrer

Fritz Der Wolkenfahrer (Fritz The Cloud Driver), Karl Behrens and Franz Kiesewetter, Hermann Schaffstein Verlag, Cologne, no date (1948 or 1950?)

For Good

From The Best of Love: A Collection of Children's Sayings compiled by Nanette Newman, Collins, Glasgow 1985 (credit: Peter age 6)

Fru Jackson sings!

Sailor och Pekka och söndagen by Jockum Nordström, Rabén & Sjögren, Stockholm 1995

Urdu F 1561

Snøvsen og Eigil og katten i sækken

Benny Andersen: Snøvsen og Eigil og katten i sækken (The Tizzy and Eigil and the Cat in the Bag), Borgen, Copenhagen 1967

Meditation Aid

Anonymous, Untitled, 1997. Jaïpur. Gouache, watercolor, and tempera on paper

From the Drawing Center exhibition FIELD OF COLOR: Tantra Drawings From India (Drawing Papers 50) 2004

Sky 063

Curiosum by Cluster, Sky Records 1981

cover by Moebius

Remy Charlip: It Looks Like Snow

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It Looks Like Snow by Remy Charlip, Young Scott Books, 1957 [32]pp

For John Cage

Set by hand and printed by Igal Roodenko in and edition of 750

Wraparound cover, constructed to be mailed. This one wasn't.

The book was reprinted by William Morrow and Co. in 1983 and again in french as On Dirait Qu'il Neige by Edition Les Trois Ourses in 2000. Apparently, Bruno Munari responded with his own book Little White Riding Hood (Cappuccetto Bianco), Corraini, 1999.

AUGUST WALLA

August Walla: Sein Leben & Seine Kunst by Leo Navratil, Greno, 1988

I can't say enough about this incredible book. I only wish someone would bring it back into print as an english edition.

August Walla b 1936 lived in the Gugging House Of Artists in Vienna from 1983 until his death in 2001.

Branches, Carpet, Curtains, Interior

Sabine Finkenauer

her site. beautiful.