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The Ballets Russes and Its World. New Haven and London: Yale...

Wed, 14 Mar 2012 15:28:34 -0400

The Ballets Russes and Its World. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1999. First American Edition.

Jacket illustration - Leon Bakst costume design for Nijinsky for his appearance in L’Apres Midi d’un Faune

Killing Color by Charlotte Watson Sherman. Published by CALYX...

Wed, 12 Oct 2011 19:38:59 -0400

Killing Color by Charlotte Watson Sherman. Published by CALYX Books in 1992.

Cover illustration “I am Free” by Jody Kim

Cover design by Carolyn Sawtelle

Book design by Cheryl McLean

Lettered Creatures by Brad and Mark Leithauser. Published by...

Wed, 12 Oct 2011 19:38:41 -0400

Lettered Creatures by Brad and Mark Leithauser. Published by David Godine in 2004.

Jacket illustration by Mark Leithauser

Jacket design by Carl W. Scarbrough

“She is a tall dark beauty…” Snow White by Donald Barthelme....

Wed, 12 Oct 2011 19:36:35 -0400

“She is a tall dark beauty…”

Snow White by Donald Barthelme. Published by Atheneum in 1967.

Jacket Design by Lawrence Ratzkin

Blood Sport by Dick Francis. First American Edition published...

Wed, 12 Oct 2011 19:36:23 -0400

Blood Sport by Dick Francis. First American Edition published by Harper & Row in 1967.

Jacket Design by Frederick E. Banbery

artofthedj: The Love Department by William Trevor. Published by...

Fri, 16 Sep 2011 15:17:46 -0400

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The Love Department by William Trevor. Published by Viking Press in 1967.

Jacket design by Paul Bacon.

artofthedj: The Trail We Leave by Ruben Palma. First American...

Tue, 30 Aug 2011 15:57:28 -0400

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The Trail We Leave by Ruben Palma. First American Edition published by Curbstone Press in 2004.

Cover art: The Lovers by Rene Magritte

Cover design by Les Kanturek

artofthedj: We Are All in the Dumps With Jack and Guy: Two...

Tue, 30 Aug 2011 15:56:59 -0400

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We Are All in the Dumps With Jack and Guy: Two Nursery Rhymes With Pictures by Maurice Sendak. Published by Harpercollins Childrens Books in 1993.

Jacket illustration by Maurice Sendak

Little Fur Family by Margaret Wise Brown. Legend has it that...

Wed, 24 Aug 2011 16:23:56 -0400

Little Fur Family by Margaret Wise Brown.

Legend has it that 15,000 rabbits were killed and skinned for the making of the binding.

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frontispiece illustration for Dibdin’s Ghost a poem by...

Tue, 23 Aug 2011 17:39:29 -0400

frontispiece illustration for Dibdin’s Ghost a poem by Eugene Field.

Published in an edition of 55 copies by the Wayside Press on the 100th anniversary of Field’s death.

artofthedj: Mr. Munchausen: An Account of Some of His Recent...

Sat, 20 Aug 2011 16:26:01 -0400

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Mr. Munchausen: An Account of Some of His Recent Adventures by John Kendrick Bangs.Published by Noyes, Platt and Company, 1901

Illustrated by Peter Newell

artofthedj: The Hot Jazz Trio by William Kotzwinkle published...

Mon, 15 Aug 2011 00:04:12 -0400

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The Hot Jazz Trio by William Kotzwinkle published by Houghton Mifflin 1989.

Jacket illustrated and designed by Joe Servello

artofthedj: Unpacking My Library: Architects and Their Books....

Wed, 10 Aug 2011 14:23:12 -0400

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Unpacking My Library: Architects and Their Books. Edited by Jo Steffens and Featuring an essay by Walter Benjamin. Published by Yale University Press in association with Urban Center Books in 2009.

Book designed by Michael Bierut and Yve Ludwig, Pentagram Design

“Who Put the Benzedrine in Mrs. Murphy’s...

Sat, 06 Aug 2011 15:01:00 -0400

“Who Put the Benzedrine in Mrs. Murphy’s Ovaltine?”

Mrs. Murphy’s Underpants by Frederic Brown. Published by E.P. Dutton & Co. in 1963

Jacket Design by Appelbaum & Curtis

Edward Gorey dust jacket. Cultural Slag by Felicia Lamport....

Fri, 05 Aug 2011 19:19:11 -0400

Edward Gorey dust jacket. Cultural Slag by Felicia Lamport. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company in 1966

Shining Morning Face: The Childhood of Lance by Lawrence...

Fri, 05 Aug 2011 19:18:49 -0400

Shining Morning Face: The Childhood of Lance by Lawrence Hanson
Published by George Allen & Unwin in 1948

Demos the Emperor: A Secular Oratorio by Osbert Sitwell....

Wed, 03 Aug 2011 18:20:58 -0400

Demos the Emperor: A Secular Oratorio by Osbert Sitwell. Published 1949. Cover illustration by H[arry]. Cowdell, in-house designer at Macmillan

Graphic Design in Germany: 1890-1945 by Jeremy Aynsley,...

Fri, 15 Jul 2011 17:35:02 -0400

Graphic Design in Germany: 1890-1945 by Jeremy Aynsley, Published by University of California Press in 2000.

‘First account in the English language of the emergence of German graphic design between 1890 and 1945.’

From an illustration by Maurice Sendak that appears in Swine...

Fri, 15 Jul 2011 14:38:19 -0400

From an illustration by Maurice Sendak that appears in Swine Lake published by Michael di Capua Books / Harper Collins in 1999.

Broadside Warning Signs by Gwendolyn Brooks Full...

Fri, 24 Jun 2011 17:07:00 -0400

Broadside

Warning Signs by Gwendolyn Brooks

Full Text:

“Gwendolyn Tamika Elizabeth Brooks (1917 – 2000) grew up in Bronzeville, a neighborhood on Chicago’s South Side where she “wrote about what I saw and heard on the street.” Brooks published her first poem at age 13, and by 17 was a regular contributor to “Chicago Defender’s” poetry column. Her first book, “A Street in Bronzeville,” was published in 1945, bringing critical acclaim and a Guggenheim Fellowship. In 1950 she became the first African American to win a Pulitzer Prize for her second book, “Annie Allen.” After attending a Black Writer’s Conference at Fisk University in 1967, Brooks said she “rediscovered her blackness,” reflected through “In The Mecca,” a book-length poem about a mother’s search for her child lost in a Chicago housing project. Her work became leaner, more sharply focused, and she committed to publish only with independent African-American presses. Declaring “I want to write poems that will be non-compromising,” Brooks continued to confront issues of race, gender and class.

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