I am generally not a fan of short stories, but Colum McCann is one of those authors where none of the usual rules apply. This was a collection of 4 stories of his and while I forget all the particulars (not all my notes are good ones) I do remember enjoying this book very much. B...
Ege, Otto. 1921/1998.The Story of the Alphabet, Its Evolution and Development… Embellished Typographically with Printer’s Flowers Arranged by Richard J. Hoffman.Van Nuys, CA: Richard J. Hoffman. A miniature. The type ornaments chosen by Hoffman are arranged chronologically by designer (Garamond...
1 includes The Bible Exhibition in the Museum at Mainz; American Collectors of Historical Typography, Half a Century of Offset Machine Building, etc. Stanley Morison, at that time the artistic adviser to the London Times, writes that he is "much impressed by the resource and initiative ...
and another wonderful chapter where the household chaplain goes to his home village and deals with a pregnant niece and a family feud. Everything, whether tragic or humorous, is also sad and beautiful. I found myself thinking of the book with a sort of haptic sense of it, as ...
the imposition of type and the ghostly images of the X play with one another. The two texts delight in the crossover between similarity and difference, knowingly in the white space at the exact center of the X in the double-page spread below. How better to use the notion that, for all...
DC has shuffled the issues in the volume instead of presenting them chronologically with “Distant Mirrors” at the front and “Convergence” at the back. Some readers may choose to read this volume cover-to-cover after “A Game of You”, while others read individual stories in their place ...
Vermeer: The Milkmaid Durer: St. Jerome in His Study Rembrandt: Return of the Prodigal Son Berlinghiero: Madonna and Child We all know Christmas doesn’t start until December 25, but now you can wear liturgically appropriate ugly sweater shirts to all those chronologically inappropriate parties!
As with many fine novels, this book had been remaindered, but now that the author has passed on the books have become collectable and sell for twice the remaindered price. $80 Click on image The First Christmas Story (1988). The King James Version of the Bible. This is the story of ...
Within each language, the works are arranged chronologically. The titles of monographical works are not italicized within lists. Though I would generally prefer otherwise, such titles being in italics would perhaps be too distracting given the amount of information contained in each entry, ...
This was itself the result of many hours of research trying to avoid reading any of the less good books about The Beatles, albeit I have read quite a few of those also. I have filtered out most of these so what we are left with is what I hope is a pretty comprehensive, yet quality...