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Alphabet Cityby Stephen T. JohnsonISBN 0140559043 (0-14-055904-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Alphabet City'Book summary:The urban landscape will never look the same again. As Stephen T. Johnson demonstrates in a series of strikingly realistic pastels and watercolors, a simple sawhorse can contain the letter "A" while lampposts alongside a highway can form a row of elegant, soaring Ys. A 1996 Caldecott Honor book, this sophisticated, wordless alphabet book is sure to appeal to young and old alike.[via] -
Apocalipsisby Stephen KingISBN 8497599411 (84-9759-941-1)
Softcover, Debolsillo
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Apocalipsis'Book summary:Spanish edition [via]
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Berlinby Manuel Gausa, Josep Lluis Mateo, Jaime Salazar Ruckauer, Manolo Laguillo, Ramon Prat, Jordi BernardoISBN 8460481131 (84-604-8113-1)
Hardcover, Actar-D
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Berlin'Book summary:This title is part of a photographic project whose aim is to present the architectural spirit of the worlds major cities. [via]
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Berlin Yesterdayby Christian WoldsdorffISBN 3927258709 (3-927258-70-9)
Softcover, Gingko Pr Inc
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Cities and the Wealth of Nations: Principles of Economic Lifeby Jane JacobsISBN 0394729110 (0-394-72911-0)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cities and the Wealth of Nations: Principles of Economic Life'Book summary:"Learned, iconoclastic and exciting...Jacobs' diagnosis of the decay of cities in an increasingly integrated world economy is on the mark."New York Times Book Review
"Jacobs' book is inspired, idiosyncratic and personal...It is written with verve and humor; for a work of embattled theory, it is wonderfully concrete, and its leaps are breathtaking."Los Angeles Times
"Not only comprehensible but entertaining...Like Mrs. Jacobs' other books, it offers a concrete approach to an abstract and elusive subject. That, all by itself, makes for an intoxicating experience."New York Times [via]More editions of Cities and the Wealth of Nations: Principles of Economic Life:
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The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospectsby Lewis MumfordISBN 156731211X (1-56731-211-X)
Hardcover, Fine Communications
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects'Book summary:Lewis Mumford's massive historical study brings together a wide array of evidence--from the earliest group habitats to medieval towns to the modern centers of commerce (as well as dozens of black-and-white illustrations)--to show how the urban form has changed throughout human civilization. His tone is ultimately somewhat pessimistic: Mumford was deeply concerned with what he viewed as the dehumanizing aspects of the metropolitan trend, which he deemed "a world of professional illusionists and their credulous victims." (In another typically unrestrained criticism, he dubbed the Pentagon a Bronze Age monument to humanity's basest impulses, as well as an "effete and worthless baroque conceit.") Mumford hoped for a rediscovery of urban principles that emphasized humanity's organic relationship to its environment. The City in History remains a powerfully influential work, one that has shaped the agendas of urban planners, sociologists, and social critics since its publication in the 1960s. [via]
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City of Saints and Madmenby Jeff Vandermeer, Michael MoorcockISBN 0553383574 (0-553-38357-4)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'City of Saints And Madmen'Book summary:World Fantasy Award Finalist for Best Collection. SF Sites Book of the Year, Critics Choice. Locus Recommended Book. On Over 20 Years Best Lists, including Amazon.com and Publishers Weekly [via]
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City of Saints and Madmen: The Book of Ambergrisby Jeff VanderMeerISBN 1587154366 (1-58715-436-6)
Softcover, Cosmos Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'City of Saints and Madmen: The Book of Ambergris'Book summary:Once upon a time, on the banks of the River Moth, a city sprang up like no other in or out of history. Founded on the blood of the original inhabitants, the stealthy gray caps, and steeped for centuries in the aftermath of that struggle, Ambergris has become a cruelly beautiful metropolis--a haven for artists and thieves, for composers and murderers. City includes the World Fantasy Award-winning novella The Transformation of Martin Lake. [via]
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Close-Up, How to Read the American Cityby Grady ClayISBN 0226109453 (0-226-10945-3)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Close-Up, How to Read the American City'Book summary:"Grady Clay looks hard at the landscape, finding out who built what and why, noticing who participates in a city's success and who gets left in a 'sink,' or depressed (often literally) area. Clay doesn't stay in the city; he looks at industrial towns, truck stops, suburbsnearly anywhere people live or work. His style is witty and readable, and the book is crammed with illustrations that clarify his points. If I had to pick up one book to guide my observations of the American scene, this would be it."Sonia Simone, Whole Earth Review[via]
"The emphasis on the informal aspects of city-shapingtopographical, historical, economic and socialdoes much to counteract the formalist approach to American urban design. Close-Up...should be required reading for anyone wishing to understand Americans and their cities."Roger Cunliffe, Architectural Review
"Close-Up is a provocative and stimulating book."Thomas J. Schlereth, Winterthur Portfolio
"Within this coherent string of essays, the urban dweller or observer, as well as the student, will find refreshing strategies for viewing the environmental 'situations' interacting to form a landscape."Dallas Morning News
"Clay's Close-Up, first published in 1973, is still a key book for looking at the real American city. Too many urban books and guidebooks concentrate on the good parts of the city....Clay looks at all parts of the city, the suburbs, and the places between cities, and develops new terms to describe parts of the built environmentfronts, strips, beats, stacks, sinks, and turf. No one who wants to understand American cities or to describe them, should fail to know this book. The illustrations are of special interest to the guidebook writer."American Urban GuidenotesMore editions of Close-Up, How to Read the American City:
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The Death and Life of Great American Citiesby Jane JacobsISBN 067974195X (0-679-74195-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Death and Life of Great American Cities'Book summary:Jane Jacobs sets out to produce an attack on current city-planning and rebuilding in America and to introduce new principles by which these should be governed. Throughout the post-war period, planners temperamentally unsympathetic to cities have been let loose on the urban environment. Inspired by the ideals of the Garden City or Le Corbusier's Radiant City, they have dreamt up ambitious projects based on self-contained neighbourhoods, super-blocks, rigid "scientific" plans and endless acres of grass. Yet they seldom stop to look at what actually works on the ground. The real vitality of cities, argues Jacobs, lies in their diversity, architectural variety, teeming street life and human scale. It is only when we appreciate such fundamental realities that we can hope to create cities that are safe, interesting and economically viable, as well as places that people want to live in. [via]
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- The Death and Life of Great American Cities: ISBN 0140551417 (0-14-055141-7)
Softcover, Penguin USA - The Death and Life of Great American Cities: ISBN 0140206817 (0-14-020681-7)
Hardcover, Penguin - The Death and Life of Great American Cities: ISBN 0375508732 (0-375-50873-2)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group - The Death and Life of Great American Cities: ISBN 0679600477 (0-679-60047-7)
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- The Death and Life of Great American Cities: ISBN 0140551417 (0-14-055141-7)
The Death Of Gentlemanly Capitalismby Philip AugarISBN 0140286683 (0-14-028668-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Death of Gentlemanly Capitalism: The Rise and Fall of London's Investment Banksby Philip AugarISBN 0140286675 (0-14-028667-5)
Hardcover, Penguin Uk
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Edge Cityby Joel GarreauISBN 0385424345 (0-385-42434-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Edge City'Book summary:First there was downtown. Then there were suburbs. Then there were malls. Then Americans launched the most sweeping change in 100 years in how they live, work, and play. The Edge City. [via]
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The Edge City: Life on the New Frontierby Joel GarreauISBN 0385262493 (0-385-26249-3)
Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing
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Eloiseby Kay ThompsonISBN 0689843119 (0-689-84311-9)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Eloise: A Book for Precocious Grown Upsby Kay Thompson, Hilary KnightISBN 067122350X (0-671-22350-X)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Eloise: A Book for Precocious Grown Ups'Book summary:"I am Eloise/I am six." So begins the well-loved story of Eloise, the garrulous little girl who lives at New York's Plaza Hotel. Eyebrow raised defiantly, arm propped on one jutting hip, Eloise is a study in self-confidence. Eloise's personal mandate is "Getting bored is not allowed," so she fills her days to the brim with wild adventures and self-imposed responsibilities. An average Eloise afternoon includes braiding her pet turtle's ears, ordering "one roast-beef bone, one raisin and seven spoons" from room service, and devising innovative methods of torture for her guardians.
Eloise's exploits are non-stop, and--accordingly--the text uses nary a period. Kay Thompson perfectly captures the way children speak: in endless sentences elongated with "and then ... and then ... and then... " Hilary Knight's drawings illustrate Eloise's braggadocio and amusement as well as the bewilderment of harassed hotel guests. Eloise's taunts are terrible, her imagination inimitable, her pace positively perilous. Her impertinence will delight readers of all ages. (Ages 5 and older) [via]
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Eloise: The Ultimate Editionby Kay ThompsonISBN 0689839901 (0-689-83990-1)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Get Urban!: The Complete Guide to City Livingby Kyle EzellISBN 1931868670 (1-931868-67-0)
Softcover, Intl Pub Marketing
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The Image of the Cityby Kevin LynchISBN 0262620014 (0-262-62001-4)
Softcover, Mit Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Image of the City'Book summary:What does the city's form actually mean to the people who live there? What can the city planner do to make the city's image more vivid and memorable to the city dweller? To answer these questions, Mr. Lynch, supported by studies of Los Angeles, Boston, and Jersey City, formulates a new criterion--imageability--and shows its potential value as a guide for the building and rebuilding of cities.The wide scope of this study leads to an original and vital method for the evaluation of city form. The architect, the planner, and certainly the city dweller will all want to read this book. [via]
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Invisible Citiesby Italo Calvino, William WeaverISBN 0156453800 (0-15-645380-0)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Invisible Cities'Book summary:"Kublai Khan does not necessarily believe everything Marco Polo says when he describes the cities visited on his expeditions, but the emperor of the Tartars does continue listening to the young Venetian with greater attention and curiosity than he shows any other messenger or explorer of his." So begins Italo Calvino's compilation of fragmentary urban images. As Marco tells the khan about Armilla, which "has nothing that makes it seem a city, except the water pipes that rise vertically where the houses should be and spread out horizontally where the floors should be," the spider-web city of Octavia, and other marvelous burgs, it may be that he is creating them all out of his imagination, or perhaps he is recreating details of his native Venice over and over again, or perhaps he is simply recounting some of the myriad possible forms a city might take. [via]
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Iron Councilby China MievilleISBN 0345458427 (0-345-45842-7)
Softcover, Del Rey
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Iron Council'Book summary:China Miéville's novel Iron Council is the tumultuous story of the "Perpetual Train." Born from monopolists' greed and dispatched to tame the western lands beyond New Crobuzon, the train is itself the beginnings of an Iron Council formed in the fire of frontier revolt against the railroad's masters. From the wilderness, the legend of Iron Council becomes the spark uniting the oppressed and brings barricades to the streets of faraway New Crobuzon. The sprawling tale is told through the past-and-present eyes of three characters. The first is Cutter, a heartsick subversive who follows his lover, the messianic Judah Low, on a quest to return to the Iron Council hidden in the western wilds. The second is Judah himself, an erstwhile railroad scout who has become the iconic golem-wielding hero of Iron Council's uprising at the end of the tracks. And the third is Ori, a young revolutionary on the streets of New Crobuzon, whose anger leads him into a militant wing of the underground, plotting anarchy and mayhem.
Miéville (The Scar, Perdido Street Station) weaves his epic out of familiar and heavily political themes--imperialism, fascism, conquest, and Marxism--all seen through a darkly cast funhouse mirror wherein even language is distorted and made beautifully grotesque. Improbably evoking Jack London and Victor Hugo, Iron Council is a twisted frontier fable cleverly combined with a powerful parable of Marxist revolution that continues Miéville's macabre remaking of the fantasy genre. --Jeremy Pugh [via]
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Kay Thompson's Eloiseby Kay Thompson, Hilary KnightISBN 0689827032 (0-689-82703-2)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Kay Thompson's Eloise'Book summary:Maurice Sendak calls Eloise a "brazen, loose-limbed little monster." Pulitzer Prize winner Anna Quindlen finds her pathetic and lonely. Eloise gave Vanity Fair writer Marie Brenner "permission to rebel." Anyone who has been introduced to the eccentric 6-year-old who spends her days at large in New York's Plaza Hotel pouring water down the mail chute and managing her self-imposed responsibilities is fascinated, fascinated, fascinated. She is the only girl we know who feeds her turtle raisins and braids his ears, wears Kleenex boxes on her head (they make very good hats), and gets away with everything. Even if you have seven copies of the original Eloise, you may want to add The Absolutely Essential Eloise to your collection. In addition to the full splendor of the original 65-page Eloise story, this special edition includes an 18-page scrapbook, written by Marie Brenner, with "photographs of Miss Kay Thompson when she was young and fabulous and rawther like Eloise" and never-before-seen photographs, memorabilia, and sketches and stories from illustrator Hilary Knight. Anyone who adores Eloise and is intrigued by her talented creators should have this book within easy reach. (Click to see a sample spread. Copyright 1955, renewed 1983 by Kay Thompson. Scrapbook text copyright 1999 by Marie Brenner. Used with permission of Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers.) (Ages 5 to 105) --Karin Snelson [via]
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Kay Thompson's Eloiseby Marie Brenner, Kay Thompson, Hilary KnightISBN 1416908234 (1-4169-0823-4)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Las Vegasby Frances Anderton, John ChaseISBN 3895082880 (3-89508-288-0)
Softcover, Koenemann Verlagsgesellschaft
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Las Vegas'Book summary:Las Vegas: A Guide to Recent Architecture is one in a series of lovely little guides to many of the world's major cities created by British publisher Ellipsis. The information contained here ranges from brief perspectives on the city's architectural history to tips on which maps are best for visitors and how to navigate the local public transit system. The book considers architecture not as something that happens on isolated building sites, but rather as social, cultural, and political phenomena. At four inches square, this highly portable book is an ideal travel companion.
Some of the other books in the series cover Chicago, London, Los Angeles, New York City, and Tokyo. Each guidebook has its own flavor, as different writers--usually architects--cover each city. --Loren E. Baldwin [via]
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Life in a Medieval Cityby Joseph and Francis GiesISBN 0060908807 (0-06-090880-7)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Life in a Medieval City'Book summary:For students, researchers, and history lovers, a look at day-to-day life in a rarely explored era. "About life and death, midwives and funerals, business, books and authors, and town government."--Choice [via]
The Little Houseby Virginia Lee BurtonISBN 039525938X (0-395-25938-X)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Little House'Book summary:"Once upon a time there was a Little House way out in the country. She was a pretty Little House and she was strong and well built." So begins Virginia Lee Burton's classic The Little House, winner of the prestigious Caldecott Medal in 1943. The rosy-pink Little House, on a hill surrounded by apple trees, watches the days go, by from the first apple blossoms in the spring through the winter snows. Always faintly aware of the city's distant lights, she starts to notice the city encroaching on her bucolic existence. First a road appears, which brings horseless carriages and then trucks and steamrollers. Before long, more roads, bigger homes, apartment buildings, stores, and garages surround the Little House. Her family moves out and she finds herself alone in the middle of the city, where the artificial lights are so bright that the Little House can no longer see the sun or the moon. She often dreams of "the field of daisies and the apple trees dancing in the moonlight." Children will be saddened to see the lonely, claustrophobic, dilapidated house, but when a woman recognizes her and whisks her back to the country where she belongs, they will rejoice. Young readers are more likely to be drawn in by the whimsical, detailed drawings and the happy ending than by anything Burton might have been implying about the troubling effects of urbanization. (Ages 3 to 6) [via]
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- The Little House: ISBN 0395181569 (0-395-18156-9)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin - The Little House: ISBN 039547941X (0-395-47941-X)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin - The Little House: ISBN 0881032328 (0-88103-232-8)
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- The Little House: ISBN 0395181569 (0-395-18156-9)
Los Angeles: The Architecture of 4 Ecologiesby Reyner BanhamISBN 0140211780 (0-14-021178-0)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologiesby Reyner BanhamISBN 0520219244 (0-520-21924-4)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies'Book summary:DIVERSE AS FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT, CHARLES EAMES, RICHARD NEUTRA AND SIMON RODIA (WHO DESIGNED THE UNIQUE WATTS TOWERS) IN THEIR PROPER CONTEXTS OF MOUNTAINS, PLAINS, BEACHES AND FREEWAYS. [via]
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Perdido Street Station: Lettered Editionby China MievilleISBN 1597800244 (1-59780-024-4)
Hardcover, Nightshade Book
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Perdido Street Station: Lettered Edition'Book summary:When Mae West said, "Too much of a good thing can be wonderful," she could have been talking about China Miéville's Perdido Street Station. The novel's publication met with a burst of extravagant praise from Big Name Authors and was almost instantly a multiaward finalist. You expect hyperbole in blurbs; and sometimes unworthy books win awards, so nominations don't necessarily mean much. But Perdido Street Station deserves the acclaim. It's ambitious and brilliant and--rarity of rarities--sui generis. Its clearest influences are Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast trilogy and M. John Harrison's Viriconium books, but it isn't much like them. It's Dickensian in scope, but fast-paced and modern. It's a love song for cities, and it packs a world into its strange, sprawling, steam-punky city of New Crobuzon. It can be read with equal validity as fantasy, science fiction, horror, or slipstream. It's got love, loss, crime, sex, riots, mad scientists, drugs, art, corruption, demons, dreams, obsession, magic, aliens, subversion, torture, dirigibles, romantic outlaws, artificial intelligence, and dangerous cults.
Generous, gaudy, grand, grotesque, gigantic, grim, grimy, and glorious, Perdito Street Station is a bloody fascinating book. It's also so massive that you may begin to feel you're getting too much of a good thing; just slow down and enjoy.
Yes, but what is Perdido Street Station about? To oversimplify: the eccentric scientist Isaac Dan der Grimnebulin is hired to restore the power of flight to a cruelly de-winged birdman. Isaac's secret lover is Lin, an artist of the khepri, a humano-insectoid race; theirs is a forbidden relationship. Lin is hired (rather against her will) by a mysterious crime boss to capture his horrifying likeness in the unique khepri art form. Isaac's quest for flying things to study leads to verification of his controversial unified theory of the strange sciences of his world. It also brings him an odd, unknown grub stolen from a secret government experiment so perilous it is sold to a ruthless drug lord--the same crime boss who hired Lin. The grub emerges from its cocoon, becomes an extraordinarily dangerous monster, and escapes Isaac's lab to ravage New Crobuzon, even as his discovery becomes known to a hidden, powerful, and sinister intelligence. Lin disappears and Isaac finds himself pursued by the monster, the drug lord, the government and armies of New Crobuzon, and other, more bizarre factions, not all confined to his world. --Cynthia Ward [via]
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- Perdido Street Station: Lettered Edition: ISBN 0345443020 (0-345-44302-0)
Softcover, Ballantine Books - Perdido Street Station: Lettered Edition: ISBN 0345459407 (0-345-45940-7)
Softcover, Ballantine Books - Perdido Street Station: Lettered Edition: ISBN 1597800244 (1-59780-024-4)
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- Perdido Street Station: Lettered Edition: ISBN 0345443020 (0-345-44302-0)
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Peter's Chairby Ezra Jack KeatsISBN 1931016070 (1-931016-07-0)
Softcover, Minnesota Humanities Commission
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Peter's Chair'Book summary:Peter, the hero of many of Ezra Jack Keats' award-winning books, is upset when his parents paint his old baby furniture pink for his new little sister. There's one thing they haven't painted yet, though: his little blue chair. He'll do whatever it takes to save iteven run away! Now this perennial favorite is accessible to even the youngest child in a durable board book edition, with reinforced pages, a handy trim size, and safe, rounded corners.[via]More editions of Peter's Chair:
- Peter's Chair: ISBN 0140564411 (0-14-056441-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA - Peter's Chair: ISBN 0670061905 (0-670-06190-5)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA - Peter's Chair: ISBN 0670880647 (0-670-88064-7)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA - Peter's Chair: ISBN 0064430405 (0-06-443040-5)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books - Peter's Chair: ISBN 0060231114 (0-06-023111-4)
Hardcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books - Peter's Chair: ISBN 1931016070 (1-931016-07-0)
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- Peter's Chair: ISBN 0140564411 (0-14-056441-1)
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The Practice of Everyday Lifeby Michel De Certeau, Steven RendallISBN 0520236998 (0-520-23699-8)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Practice of Everyday Life'Book summary:In this incisive book, Michel de Certeau considers the uses to which social representation and modes of social behavior are put by individuals and groups, describing the tactics available to the common man for reclaiming his own autonomy from the all-pervasive forces of commerce, politics, and culture.[via]More editions of The Practice of Everyday Life:
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Silbale a Willie/Whistle for Willieby Ezra Jack KeatsISBN 0613058747 (0-613-05874-7)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Silbale a Willie/Whistle for Willie'Book summary:FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Peter longs to be able to whistle for his dog, Willie, and makes many ingenious attempts. [via]
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Snowy Dayby Ezra Jack KeatsISBN 0140501827 (0-14-050182-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Snowy Day'Book summary:The Snowy Day, a 1963 Caldecott Medal winner, is the simple tale of a boy waking up to discover that snow has fallen during the night. Keats's illustrations, using cut-outs, watercolors, and collage, are strikingly beautiful in their understated color and composition. The tranquil story mirrors the calm presence of the paintings, and both exude the silence of a freshly snow-covered landscape. The little boy celebrates the snow-draped city with a day of humble adventures--experimenting with footprints, knocking snow from a tree, creating snow angels, and trying to save a snowball for the next day. Awakening to a winter wonderland is an ageless, ever-magical experience, and one made nearly visceral by Keats's gentle tribute.
The book is notable not only for its lovely artwork and tone, but also for its importance as a trailblazer. According to Horn Book magazine, The Snowy Day was "the very first full-color picture book to feature a small black hero"--yet another reason to add this classic to your shelves. It's as unique and special as a snowflake. [via]
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- Snowy Day: ISBN 0590733230 (0-590-73323-0)
Softcover, Scholastic - Snowy Day: ISBN 0670654000 (0-670-65400-0)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA - Snowy Day: ISBN 0670867330 (0-670-86733-0)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA - Snowy Day: ISBN 0881037036 (0-88103-703-6)
Hardcover, Bt Bound - Snowy Day: ISBN 0140501827 (0-14-050182-7)
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- Snowy Day: ISBN 0590733230 (0-590-73323-0)
Snowy Day/Big Bookby Ezra Jack KeatsISBN 0590652397 (0-590-65239-7)
Softcover, Scholastic
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The Stones Of Veniceby John Ruskin, J. G. LinksISBN 1873429452 (1-873429-45-2)
Softcover, Pallas Athene
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Stones of Venice'Book summary:John Ruskin, Victorian England's greatest writer on art and literature, believed himself an adopted son of Venice, and his feelings for this city are exquisitely expressed in The Stones of Venice. This edition contains Ruskin's famous essay "The Nature of Gothic," a marvelously descriptive tour of Venice before its postwar restoration. As Ruskin wrote in 1851, "Thank God I am here, it is a Paradise of Cities."[via]More editions of The Stones Of Venice:
- The Stones Of Venice: ISBN 030681286X (0-306-81286-X)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group - The Stones Of Venice: ISBN 091882513X (0-918825-13-X)
Softcover, Moyer Bell Ltd - The Stones of Venice: ISBN 0141390654 (0-14-139065-4)
Softcover, Penguin Books, Limited - The Stones Of Venice: ISBN 0306802449 (0-306-80244-9)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group - The Stones Of Venice: ISBN 0824032780 (0-8240-3278-0)
Hardcover, Garland Pub - The Stones of Venice: ISBN 1873429452 (1-873429-45-2)
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- The Stones Of Venice: ISBN 030681286X (0-306-81286-X)
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Superstudio: Life Without Objectsby Peter Lang, William MenkingISBN 8884915694 (88-8491-569-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Superstudio: Life Without Objects'Book summary:Founded in Florence in 1966, Superstudio challenged the modernist orthodoxy that architecture and technological advances could improve the world by creating alternative visions of the future in photo-montages, sketches, collages and films. The five members of Superstudio: Cristiano Toraldo di Francia, Gian Piero Frassinelli, Alessandro Magris, Roberto Magris and Adolfo Natalini-were equally pessimistic about politics and its ability to solve mounting social, cultural and environmental problems. This Fall 2003 New York exhibition catalogue, drawn from Superstudio's archive and curated in collaboration with members of the group, will revisit its work and trace its influence on subsequent generations of architects.
Superstudio: Life without Objects collects nearly 200 of the group's most important images, collages, storyboards and critical writings. White monuments crossing over entire landscapes and cities, vast grid groundplanes spreading over infinite beaches populated by wandering hippies: these are some of the more evocative images that consolidated their fame as vanguard architects. In 1972, MoMA invited them to participate in one of the largest exhibitions in its history, built around Italian design and architecture. With essays from Peter Lang and William Menking, the book is designed to provide the reader with the most detailed account of this avant-garde design group and their lively assault on modernism.
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Truckby Donald CrewsISBN 0688155979 (0-688-15597-9)
Hardcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Truck'Book summary:FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Boldly colored illustrations follow a red tractor-trailer truck as it moves along city streets, across a bridge, through a tunnel, and along a freeway to its destination. [via]
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Veniss Undergroundby Jeff VandermeerISBN 1894815645 (1-894815-64-5)
Softcover, Prime Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Veniss Underground'Book summary:Jeff VanderMeer's last book, City of Saints & Madmen, explored the limits of literary fantasy, garnering raves from critics, including a starred review in Publishers Weekly. Now, with Veniss Underground, VanderMeer explores the limits of love, memory, and obsession in a far future SF novel that combines the grotesque and the sublime in a rousing adventure-mystery. [via]
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Whistle for Willieby Ezra Jack KeatsISBN 0140502025 (0-14-050202-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Whistle for Willie'Book summary:FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. A little boy goes about his daily routine, all the while trying to learn how to whistle. ""Oh, how Peter wished he could whistle! [via]
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Hardcover, Penguin Group USA - Whistle for Willie: ISBN 0808525557 (0-8085-2555-7)
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Will They Ever Finish Bruckner Boulevardby Ada Louise HuxtableISBN 0520062051 (0-520-06205-1)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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Algo supuestamente divertido que nunca volvere a hacerby Not AvailableISBN 9685957207 (968-5957-20-7)
Softcover, Random House Mondadori
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Las Ciudades Europeas Del Medievoby Jose Maria Monsalvo AntonISBN 8477384738 (84-7738-473-8)
Hardcover, Editorial Sintesis
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Franny Y Zooey/ Franny and Zooeyby J. D. SalingerISBN 8420637491 (84-206-3749-1)
Softcover, Alianza Editorial Sa
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Franny Y Zooey/ Franny and Zooey'Book summary:Franny se enfrenta al problema de los farsantes y la falsedad. El hecho mismo de que sea actriz profesional la obliga a plantearse la distincion entre autenticidad y falsedad y a verselas con la vanidad y el egotismo casi a diario, e incluso su intento de renuncia a su profesion esta abocado al fracaso si pretende mantenerse fiel a si misma. [via]
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La Jardinera / The Gardenerby Sarah Stewart, David SmallISBN 9802573086 (980-257-308-6)
Softcover, Ediciones Ekare
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Nueve Cuentos / Nine Storiesby J. D. SalingerISBN 842063462X (84-206-3462-X)
Softcover, Alianza Editorial Sa
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Nueve Cuentos / Nine Stories'Book summary:En estos nueve cuentos se observa claramente el caracter unitario del mundo creado por Salinger. El hecho de que el primero de los cuentos, Un dia perfecto para el pez platano, sea el tragico desenlace de Seymour (lo que vincula ya desde el principio este libro con LEVANTAD CARPINTEROS, LA VIGA DEL TEJADO..) da ya la medida del modo de operar de Salinger con sus historias, que a menudo tienen un gran componente autobiografico. [via]
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Silba Por Willie/Whistle for Willieby Ezra Jack KeatsISBN 0670843954 (0-670-84395-4)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Silba Por Willie/Whistle for Willie'Book summary:A Spanish version of the classic picture book depicts Peter longing to whistle for his dog, Willie, in the colorful collage of his city home. [via]
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Silbale a Willie/Whistle for Willieby Ezra Jack KeatsISBN 0140557660 (0-14-055766-0)
Softcover, Puffin
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Los Tres Impostoresby Arthur MacHenISBN 8420655538 (84-206-5553-8)
Softcover, Alianza Editorial Sa
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Un Dia De Nieve / The Snowy Dayby Ezra Jack KeatsISBN 0140543635 (0-14-054363-5)
Softcover, Puffin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Un Dia De Nieve / The Snowy Day'Book summary:Spanish version of this Caldecott medal winner recounting the adventures of a little boy in the city on a very snowy day. [via]
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Arm Brusselby Geert van IstendaelISBN 902540054X (90-254-0054-X)
Hardcover, Atlas
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De Engel Van Amsterdamby Geert MakISBN 9025400345 (90-254-0034-5)
Hardcover, Atlas
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Het Gent Boekby Marie Christine Laleman, Leen CharlesISBN 904009134X (90-400-9134-X)
Hardcover, Waanders
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Auswandererhafen Hamburg: = Emigration Port Hamburgby Hamburg (Germany), Matthias SchmoockISBN 3929229757 (3-929229-75-7)
Softcover, Schubert
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Auswandererhafen Hamburg: = Emigration Port Hamburg'Book summary:Medien-Verlag Schubert Auflage:2000/ Broschiert 79 Seiten/Versand in der Regel innerhalb von einem Werktag im Luftpolsterumschlag . Rechnung mit ausgewiesener MwSt - [via]
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Die Basilika in Trier: Romisches Palatium, Kirche Zum Erloserby Eberhard ZahnISBN 3923319185 (3-923319-18-5)
Hardcover, Die Kirchengemeinde
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Historiske Byer: Fra De Eldste Tider Til Renessansenby Erik LorangeISBN 8200210480 (82-00-21048-0)
Hardcover, Universitetsforlaget
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Mine Gleders By: Historien Om London Gjennom to Tusen arby Richard HerrmannISBN 8202098181 (82-02-09818-1)
Hardcover, Cappelen
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Eloiseby Kay ThompsonISBN 2070521257 (2-07-052125-7)
Softcover, Gallimard, Editions
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Eloise'Book summary:Maurice Sendak calls Eloise a "brazen, loose-limbed little monster." Pulitzer Prize winner Anna Quindlen finds her pathetic and lonely. Eloise gave Vanity Fair writer Marie Brenner "permission to rebel." Anyone who has been introduced to the eccentric 6-year-old who spends her days at large in New York's Plaza Hotel pouring water down the mail chute and managing her self-imposed responsibilities is fascinated, fascinated, fascinated. She is the only girl we know who feeds her turtle raisins and braids his ears, wears Kleenex boxes on her head (they make very good hats), and gets away with everything. Even if you have seven copies of the original Eloise, you may want to add The Absolutely Essential Eloise to your collection. In addition to the full splendor of the original 65-page Eloise story, this special edition includes an 18-page scrapbook, written by Marie Brenner, with "photographs of Miss Kay Thompson when she was young and fabulous and rawther like Eloise" and never-before-seen photographs, memorabilia, and sketches and stories from illustrator Hilary Knight. Anyone who adores Eloise and is intrigued by her talented creators should have this book within easy reach. (Click to see a sample spread. Copyright 1955, renewed 1983 by Kay Thompson. Scrapbook text copyright 1999 by Marie Brenner. Used with permission of Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers.) (Ages 5 to 105) --Karin Snelson [via]
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