Tomi Ungerer Christmas Card

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The Bells — Edmund Dulac

The Eastwind Flew Faster Still — Edmund Dulac

Illustration from Beauty and The Beast — Walter Crane

Alphabet — Walter Crane

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Harry Grant Dart Painting

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(Via/about).

A Ballad of the Captains — Harry Clarke

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(Via/more).

Jorge Luis Borges Portrait — Roman Muradov

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(There’s lots more great stuff at Roman Muradov’s site and blog).

Ulysses — Roman Muradov

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(Roman Muradov’s wonderful illustration to the Wandering Rocks episode of Joyce’s Ulysses; lots more great stuff at Roman’s site and blog).

Night’s Plutonian Shore — Gustave Dore Illustrates Edgar Allan Poe’s Poem “The Raven”

Gustave Dore’s marvelous illustration’s for Edgar Allan Poe’s poem “The Raven”

 

Devil — Jan Matejko

Alexander Alexeieff Illustrates Poe’s Story “The Fall of the House of Usher”

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Book Shelves #38, 9.16.2012

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Book shelves series #38, thirty-eighth Sunday of 2012

The final entry on this corner piece.

What have these volumes in common? They are all aesthetically pleasing.

They are all too tall to fit elsewhere comfortably.

Several issues of McSweeney’s, some art books, and some graphic novels:

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I’ve already expressed my strong enthusiasm for Charles Burns’s X’ed Out. The Acme Library pictured is part of Chris Ware’s series, and is beautiful and claustrophobic.

McSweeney’s #28 comprises eight little hardbacked fables that arrange into two “puzzle” covers:

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I’ve also written enthusiastically about Max Ernst’s surreal graphic novel, Une Semaine de Bonte:

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America’s Great Adventure is this wonderful book that pairs American writing (poems, songs, excerpts from novels and journals) with American paintings to tell a version of American history:

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It probably deserves its own review. Short review: It’s a wonderful book if you can find it.

“My Bed Is a Boat” — Robert Louis Stevenson

Poe Illustration (“Murders in the Rue Morgue”) — Fritz Eichenberg

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Smaug Flies Round the Mountain — An Illustration by J.R.R. Tolkien

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Charles Burns Interviewed

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