Book Marks an Artist's Card Catalog - Notes from the Library of My Mind by Barbara Page (Artist)
$72.00 AUD
Category: Books about Books & Writing
One artist's whimsical and inspiring way to keep track of the books she has read, Book Marks is a visual journey through a lifetime of reading and remembering that features 434 richly illustrated artworks created on old library checkout cards; each collage or drawing distills the contents of a single ti ...Show more
The Dictionary People: The unsung heroes who created the Oxford English Dictionary by Sarah Ogilvie
$35.00 AUD
Category: Books about Books & Writing
What do three murderers, Karl Marx's daughter and a vegetarian vicar have in common? They all helped create the Oxford English Dictionary. The Oxford English Dictionary has long been associated with elite institutions and Victorian men; its longest-serving editor, James Murray, devoted 36 years to the ...Show more
The Thames & Hudson Manual Of Bookbinding by Arthur W. Johnson
$41.00 AUD
Category: Books about Books & Writing | Series: Thames & Hudson Manuals
Recounts the battle between Custer's cavalry and the united forces of the Sioux nation and describes what impact the battle had on the future of the Indians.
Japanese Bookbinding by Kojiro Ikegami
$80.00 AUD
Category: Books about Books & Writing
This text provides easy-to-follow instructions for making all the major styles of Japanese bookbindings and traditional book cases.
Bookbinding The Complete Guide to Folding, Sewing & Binding by Franziska Morlok And Miri
$110.00 AUD
Category: Books about Books & Writing
Bookbinding is a unique and essential reference guide for designers, explaining industrial bookbinding techniques with a focus on the design and conception of print products. Packed full of insights from the world's best bookbinders, it contains everything you need to know about folding, stitching and b ...Show more
150 Bookstores You Need to Visit Before You Die by ELIZABETH STAMP
$72.00 AUD
Category: Books about Books & Writing | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
- The most interesting bookstores in the world, collected in one beautifully bound volume- After 150 Bars, Restaurants, Hotels, Houses, Gardens, Golf Courses and Vineyards this is the eighth book in the internationally successful 150 series- Selected and written by American author Elizabeth Stamp, journ ...Show more
The Written World and the Unwritten World - Essays by Italo Calvino
$34.00 AUD
Category: Books about Books & Writing
"Wonderful... Calvino's prose is sparkling as ever, and he approaches ideas with wit and an open mind, always ready to challenge a stale point of view. This anthology will delight Calvino fans old and new." --Publishers WeeklyA rich collection of essays offering an extraordinary global view of Calvino's ...Show more
The Bookseller at the End of the World by Ruth Shaw
$38.00 AUD
Category: Books about Books & Writing
A rich, immersive, funny and heartbreaking memoir of the charming bookseller who runs two tiny bookshops in the remote village of Manapouri in Fiordland, in the deep south of New Zealand. Ruth Shaw weaves together stories of the characters who visit her bookshops, musings about her favourite books, and ...Show more
Why Read the Classics? by Italo Calvino
$29.00 AUD
Category: Books about Books & Writing
Why Read the Classics? is an elegant defence of the value of great literature by one of the finest authors of the last century. Beginning with an essay on the attributes that define a classic (number one - classics are those books that people always say they are 'rereading', not 'reading'), this is an a ...Show more
The Collected Letters of Flann O'Brien by Flann O'Brien
$45.00 AUD
Category: Books about Books & Writing | Series: Irish Literature Ser.
An unprecedented gathering of the correspondence of one of the great writers of twentieth century, the Collected Letters of Flann O'Brien presents an intimate look into the life and thought of Brian O'Nolan, a prolific author of novels, stories, sketches, and journalism who famously wrote and presented ...Show more
Honeymoons by Roger Hudson, Rose Baring
$35.00 AUD
Category: Books about Books & Writing | Series: Through Writers' Eyes Ser.
The honeymoon - no other holiday inspires so much anticipation of blissful happiness, nor such potential for catastrophic disappointment. Using extracts from fiction and from real-life diaries and letters, Honeymoons: through writers' eyes takes you on a rollercoaster of an emotional journey into the he ...Show more
Inside the Whale: On Writers and Writing by George Orwell
$30.00 AUD
Category: Books about Books & Writing
Unfailingly elegant and endlessly relevant, the four essays in this collection treat literature as a vital record of our political hypocrisies, our social failings, and the ennobling limits of our ideological aspirations.