Author: Louise Seymour Jones
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Category : Bookplates
Languages : en
Pages : 192

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Book-plates and their lore, the book-lovers who use them, the artists who design them, and the enthusiasts who collect them.

Author: James P. Keenan
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company
ISBN: 9780760746967
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 190

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The world is full of people who love books. People who not only love to read, but who love to possess and collect books. Since the fifteenth century truly devoted collectors have commissioned their own bookplates, known also as ex libris. Some are straightforward ? a simple label bearing the owner?s name. Others are impressive works of art in miniature. Whether plan or fancy, book plates give an owner a special sense of proud proprietorship. Even more important, they assure that if a cherished book is lent, it has a decent chance of being returned. They are an indulgence of the rich and famous, certainly. And, ?The art of the Bookplate? includes many owned by prominent people such as George Washington, Charlie Chaplin, John F. Kennedy, Joan Crawford J.P. Morgan, Walt Disney, Grace Allen, Otto Bismarck, Albert Einstein, Eleanor Roosevelt, Harry Houdini, Sigmund Freud, Charles Dickens, and Anita Loos. But other bookplate patrons are unknown to us, like Mabel Bishop, whose charming ex libris shows a young woman tending her garden, or Lucius Fisher, whose bookplate, naturally enough, features a fish. In this delightful book James P. Keenan, Director of the American Society of bookplate collectors & Designers, shares many of his favorite bookplates. He explains the history behind each, and discusses the artists ? some as famous as Rockwell Kent and Claes Oldenburg, others as unknown or not ex libris owners are passionate about keeping their book collections intact. As one very old bookplate proclaims, ?Steal not this book for fear of shame. For here you see the owner?s name.? The Art of the Bookplate is a book to be treasured and, of course, kept in your possession. --

Author: Charles Dexter Allen
Publisher:
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Category : Bookplates
Languages : en
Pages : 532

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Author: Leslie Dunmore-Leiber
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Category : Book review digest
Languages : en
Pages : 1000

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Author: Audrey Spencer Arellanes
Publisher: Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Company
ISBN:
Category : Book-plates, Periodicals, Indexes
Languages : en
Pages : 552

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Author: Malinda Lo
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 031617520X
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 248

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Nature is out of balance in the human kingdom. The sun hasn't shone in years, and crops are failing. Worse yet, strange and hostile creatures have begun to appear. And the people's survival hangs in the balance. To solve the crisis, the oracle stones are cast, and Kaede and Taisin, two seventeen-year-old girls, are picked to go on a dangerous and unheard-of journey to Tanlili, the city of the Fairy Queen. Taisin is a sage, thrumming with magic, and Kaede is of the earth, without a speck of the otherworldly. And yet the two girls' destinies are drawn together during the mission. As members of their party succumb to unearthly attacks and fairy tricks, the two come to rely on each other and even begin to fall in love. But the Kingdom needs only one huntress to save it, and what it takes could tear Kaede and Taisin apart forever. The exciting adventure prequel to Malinda Lo's highly acclaimed novel Ash is overflowing with lush Chinese influences and details inspired by the I Ching, and is filled with action and romance.

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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 944

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Author: William John Hardy
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Category : Bookplates
Languages : en
Pages : 276

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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 648

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Author: Arthur Garfield Kennedy
Publisher: Stanford University Press
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 484

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