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1) Dream logic
Author
Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (242 pages) : color illustrations
Language
English
Description
Features concept art and commentary of the Marvel Comics series "Dream Logic" by David Mack, and examines his artistic career. Includes color photographs.
Author
Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (322 pages) : chiefly illustrations (chiefly color)
Language
English
Description
Contains a collection of drawings, paintings, sculptures, and sketches by graphic novel artist David Mack, the writer and artist of "Daredevil" from Marvel Comics, and explores his artistic process. Include color photographs.
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
492 pages : illustrations, photographs ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A fascinating exploration of the contents of Agatha Christie's long hidden notebooks, including illustrations, analyses, and two previously unpublished short stories. This was first published in the UK --Provided by publisher.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Caroline Grant is struggling to accept the end of her marriage when she receives an unexpected bequest. Her beloved great-aunt Lettie leaves her a sketchbook, three keys, and a final whisper... Venice. Caroline's quest: to scatter Juliet 'Lettie' Browning's ashes in the city she loved and to unlock the mysteries stored away for more than sixty years. It's 1938 when art teacher Juliet Browning arrives in romantic Venice. For her students, it's a wealth...
Author
Pub. Date
1983
Physical Desc
xxviii, 369 pages, 5 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
From one of the greatest literary critics of the twentieth century, this installment of Edmund Wilson's private notebooks covers the years of the 1940s, providing a rich lens into the writer's life and the world at large.
Wilson turned forty-five in 1940, and this volume The Forties: From Notebooks & Diaries of the Period shows the extent to which he was reappraising his life in the decade to follow, saying goodbye to the drifting of the 1920s...
Author
Pub. Date
1986
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xxxii, 663 pages, 7 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
Edmund Wilson's The Fifties, edited by Leon Edel, is the highly acclaimed fourth volume in the series that began with The Twenties. It is complimented with photographs and journal excerpts of some of the most interesting characters of the decade, including Edna St. Vincent Millay, W.H. Auden, and Vladimir Nabokov.
Author
Pub. Date
1993
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
li, 968 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
The last of Edmund Wilson's posthumously published journals turned out to be one of his major books, The Sixties: the Last Journal, 1960-1972, a personal history that is also brilliant social comedy and an anatomy of the times.
Wilson catches the flavor of an international elite, Stravinsky, Auden, Andre Malraux, and Isaiah Berlin, as well as the New York literati and the Kennedy White House, but he never strays too far from the common life, whether...
Author
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
334 pages : illustrations ; 32 cm
Language
English
Description
Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) possessed arguably the greatest mind the world has ever known. Artist, draftsman, inventor, and philosopher, his contributions to modern society are profound and wide-reaching. Throughout his life, Leonardo kept dozens of notebooks, elegant studies on topics ranging from architecture to botany to philosophy--indeed nearly anything of which the human imagination could conceive. This book collects a variety of the most...
Author
Publisher
Icon Books Ltd
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
xiii, 176 pages : color illustrations ; 17 cm
Language
English
Description
Inspired by her popular Twitter account, The Year I Stopped to Notice brings together Miranda Keeling's observations of the magic, humor, strangeness and beauty in ordinary life. Through the changing seasons, on city streets and on buses, in parks and cafes, Miranda notices things: moments between friends, the interactions of strangers, children delighting in the world around them, the quiet melancholy of lost items on the pavement. Accompanied by...
20) Commonplace book
Author
Pub. Date
1985
Physical Desc
xxiii, 372 pages, : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English