A State Secret — Jehan Georges Vibert

Vortograph — lvin Coburn

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James Joyce — Barry Moser

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The Intermission — Honore Daumier

The Mystic Wood — John William Waterhouse

Science Fiction — Klaus Winichner

Collector — Hiro Yamagata

The Model — Jacek Malczewski

Illustration for Oscar Wilde’s Salome — John Vassos

The Awakening of the Forest — Paul Delvaux

Ice Cream Abduction (Wong Kar Wai)

Winter — Norman Rockwell

Jupiter and Semele — Gustave Moreau

Lisbeth Reading — Carl Larsson

The Blank Signature — René Magritte

Some Really Lovely Books Acquired, 1.21.2014 (Thanks Ryan!)

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I was pleasantly surprised to get a box of great stuff in the mail from Ryan Mihaly, a frequent contributor to this blog (check out the second part of his interview with translator Ilan Stavans). Inside the handsome Penguin Classics Goethe was this little card:

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I had never even heard of The Thoughtbook, Fitzgerald’s boyhood diary. Sample:

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Tom Clark is The Best.

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And always Hell.

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Thanks again, Ryan!