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Are You My Husband? - I Can Find Him All By Myself
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This sweet book is a charming parody of P.D. Eastman's beloved 1960 children's classic, Are You My Mother?.
Are You My Husband? follows the adventures of Little Chick, who wakes up one day to discover she is thirty-horrors!-and-even worse-still single. Greatly concerned about her "eggs," Little Chick embarks on a quest to find a husband. Her search takes her from swing-dancing class (where all the guys are practicing for their weddings) to her high school reunion (where she remembers why she didn't meet her husband there in the first place), from the Internet (where she fails a Prince fan's mysterious lyrics test) to AA (where her self-esteem just isn't low enough). She even tries the oh-so-gorgeous guy at the gym, but it turns out he's looking for a husband, too.
Ultimately, Little Chick comes to realize that love, like life, has to happen on its own timetable, and until it does, maybe being single isn't so bad after all.
In the tradition of Looking for Mr. Right and Even God is Single So Stop Giving Me a Hard Time, this newest bit of chick lit is the perfect anti-Valentine for any woman who's been asked one too many times, "So, when are YOU getting married?"
Author Rachel Carpenter's nonfiction, humorous and otherwise, has appeared in outlets as varied as Martha Stewart Weddings, NPR and mcsweeneys.net. Her fiction has run in several literary magazines, including theatlantic.com and One Story, and has been read on the BBC. She is native of Philadelphia and now lives in New York.
This 48-page hardcover measures a bit over 7 inches high by 5-1/3 inches wide.
Printed in USA or Imported
14June2008, updated 28June2008
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Alter This!
More Collage, Assemblage & Altered Art
Take this book and…remake it! Introducing the first guide that not only teaches kids and adults alike the basics of altered art, but is the very material for creating those personal pieces. That’s because this volume, along with dozens of others, is an art project just waiting to happen.
With irreverent text and beautiful photography—and techniques such as stitching, image transferring, and cutting—Alter This! shows us how to turn telephone, picture, and even those boring grammar books into something exciting. Budding artists will decorate pages with collage, paint, stamps, pockets, and pop ups, and transform entire tomes into shadow boxes, picture frames, purses, or tools for passing notes in the hallway. Kids from 7 to 100 will want to own this book…and make it their own, too!
Some of the projects show you how to:
Write your own poems using the words in a book.
Turn a book into a purse.
Make an accordion-folded book decorated with splatter paintings and beads.
Display your favorite photo in a frame cut into the pages of a book.
Design a pop-up book with just a few small strips of paper.
and much more!
The 96 pages of this 9 by 8 inch hardcover book are loaded with illustrations. You can even use the dust cover in your art!
Imported
6May2008
List Price: $14.95 Our Price: $12.75 each
A World Treasury of Riddles
This less than perfect edition of such a charming book is a real bargain! We were able to purchase this previous edition before the new edition was published - so there might be some minimal wear on the cover.
Riddles by any name - enigmas, conundrums, word puzzles, teasers - have been posed since ancient times to test people's wit and stretch their imaginations. Phil Cousineau, the bestselling author of The Art of Pilgrimage and Once and Future Myths, resurrects this lost art form in this great little paperback.
Drawing from world literature, history, myth and folklore, Cousineau has created a one-o-a-kind book that presents fiddles from ancient Greece to the Ozarks, from Leonardo da Vinci to Lewis Carroll and more
This wonderful paperbound publication includes an introduction and notes. It measures 5-3/8 by 8-1/2 inches with 240 pages.
Printed in USA on Recycled Paper
24April2008
List Price $14.95 - Old Price: $11.95 - Our Price $8.95 each
Fortune-Telling Book of Dreams
More Fortune Telling, Tarot, etc.
Aunt Sally's Policy Players Dream Book
Inspired by a vintage book, this delightful guide deciphers dreams to predict the future. It compiles over 1,000 dream symbols and reveals what they portend for the dreamer.
This gilded, faux-leather book is irresistible to pick up; its content is so compelling, it's impossible to put down. A blue silken ribbon, matching the cover, serves as a self-bookmark. Each alphabetic section is begun with a retro illustration that may even act as inspiration for future dreams.
Some sample interpretations:
AVOCADO Expect your love life to ignite if you dream of this tasty green fruit.
DREAM To dream in a dream is a sign of better times to come.
LIME Troubled times are ahead if you dream of eating a lime.
PINECONE Expect news of a birth if you dream of pinecones.
Even the descriptions are written in an old-fashioned style in this 204-page book, which measures 4-3/4 by 3-3/4 inches.
23April2008
Price: $9.95 each
First French Reader: A Beginner's Dual Language Book
More Things French
This excellent anthology offers the beginning French-language student a first taste of some of the world's most significant prose. Chosen for both their eloquence and ease of reading, excerpts are from such masterpieces as:
Les Misérables The Read and the Black Madame Bovary Carmen The Three Musketeers Descartes' The Discourse on Method
These readings - a total of 50 in all - will open new worlds for linguists. Readers will savor the words of fifty great writers of multiple genres from the 17th through the 20th centuries, including Voltaire, Rousseau, Balzac, Baudelaire, Dumas, Proust and other literary virtuosos.
Lucid and accessible, the unabridged English translations by Stanley Appelbaum appear on pages that face the original French text. Literature lovers, French-language students, and other readers will find this volume a fascinating exploration of French literature...and an invaluable aid to mastering one of the world's most romantic languages.
Printed in USA
22April2008
Price: $11.95 each
It Takes a Long Time to Become Young
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Not only is the title provocative, but the quotations inside are as well! This is an inspiring collection of quotations that assert and amplify the idea that though our bodies age, our hearts and minds can remain young. This is one of those rare anthologies that is the result of wide reading and long collecting, rather than the usual recombination of other people's gleanings.
Richard Kehl woke up one day, as most of us eventually do, and thought - "I look old, but my heart is not old." That morning he started reading in search of observations which paralleled and examined his insight. Darling & Company decided to put his collection in this book because they think it will encourage many readers by letting them know that they are not alone, not wrong in their intuitions. It is their hope also to promote a youthful outlook, one which even perhaps younger readers will find fascinating.
This wonderful 56-page soft-cover book features self-folding flaps that can be used alternatively as bookmarks. It measures 5-1/2 by 8 inches.
Printed in China
15April2008
Price: $9.00 each
Do's and Don'ts of Yesteryear
A delightful mixture of early American know-how and good old-fashioned gentility, Eric Sloane's Do's and Don'ts captures the spirit of bygone America in words and pictures. Combining two of the beloved folk historian's nostalgic how-to guides, this collection offers vintage, homespun advice that recalls "the joy of doing things not just the old-fashioned way, but plainly the right way."
A shining historical gem, this little book of American lore recalls a more kindly, less hurried time. Lovingly gathered by "Mr. Americana" himself from colonial-era almanacs and diaries, hundreds of brief reflections spread time-honored wisdom on everything from curing hiccups, lighting a proper fire, and mending clothing and furniture, to predicting the weather, making soap and getting rid of ants, bees, swallows - and boring houseguests! Sloane's evocative drawings add the perfect finishing touch.
Here are a few examples from the book:
Do hammer a squared peg into a round hole when you wish a wood joint to stay. A hardwood stick, if partly squared, will soon "weld" itself in a round-holed softwood piece and stay tight throughout the years.
Do make a simple soap by using potatoes three-fourths boiled and then mashed. This not only cleans hands but also prevents winter chap.
Do roll newspapers into rolls by wrapping them with string. A Stack of these "logs" will do almost as well in your fireplace as real wood.
Don't contradict. Difference of opinion is no cause of offense, but downright contradiction is a violation of canons of good society.
Don't lean or rest your elbows upon the dinner table.
Don't be in haste to introduce. Be sure that it is mutually desired before presenting any one person to another.
This unabridged hardback book with dustcover is a republication of the editions published by Walker and Company, New York, 1968 and 1972. There are 144 pages in this 4-1/2 by 7 inch book.
09April2008
The Devil's Dictionary (Unabridged)
Born in Ohio in 1842, journalist, short-story writer and critic Ambrose Bierce developed into one of this country's most celebrated and cynical wits - a merciless "American Swift" whose literary barbs were aimed at folly, self-delusion, politics, business, religion, literature and the arts. In this splendid "dictionary" of epigrams, essays, verses and vignettes, you'll find over 1,000 pointed definitions. For example:
Congratulation - The civility of envy. Coward - One who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs. Historian - A broad-gauge gossip. Me - The objectionable case of I.
Anyone who likes to laugh will love The Devil's Dictionary. Anyone looking for a bon mot to enliven their next speech, paper or conversation will have a field day thumbing through what HL Mencken called "some of the most gorgeous witticisms in the English language.
This unabridged book is a republication of the edition published by the Neale Publishing Company in 1911. There are 144 pages in this 5-3/16 by 8-1/4 inch paperback.
27March2008
Price: $3.50 each
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A French Alphabet Book of 1814
The complete title reads:
A FRENCH ALPHABET BOOK OF 1814 for Alfred Bourdier de Beauregard created by his uncle Arnaud at the Château de Beaumont de Beauregard
This charming primer on the alphabet captures the essence of everyday life among the French aristocracy in 1814 in a uniquely detailed series of watercolor drawings made as an alphabet book for a young French aristocrat by his uncle.
The drawings give fascinating views of the family chateau and its grounds, its elegantly appointed interiors, the private chapel, as well as the kitchen, workshops, and stables. The boy's clothing and pastimes are all minutely illustrated as are his instruction in polite manners, music, and the arts. The pages are full of amusing puns and now obscured meanings-the French captions translated into the English of the period-preserving a life of enchantment and privilege which has long since vanished.
Charles Plante, who arranged this collection, is the director of Charles Plante Fine Arts, one of the leading British antique galleries specializing in watercolors, drawings and the decorative arts of the neoclassical period (1760-1840).
Made in Hungary
22March2008
Compare at: $24.95 Our Price: $20.00 each
Songs of Experience - Facsimile Reproduction
Tyger! Tyger! burning bright In the forests of the night; What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry? . . .
One of Blake's most inspired creations, The Tyger mingles the lyric and mystical in an exquisite union. Now you can experience the beauty of this and other poems the way Blake intended them - with his own hand-colored illustrations giving them visual form.
This facsimile edition of one of Blake's celebrated Illuminated Books reproduces a collection of calligraphed poems, each enclosed in a masterful full-color illustration. Twenty-six plates reprinted from a rare 1826 etched edition include "London," " A Little Boy Lost," "Holy Thursday," "The Voice of the Ancient Bard" and other immortal verse. To enhance reading, the texts of all the poems are transcribed separately, following the plates.
Dynamic designs and simplicity of language convey Blake's vision of mankind and his condemnation of a wealthy society insensitive to poverty and unhappiness. Moreover, its universal themes make Songs of Experience just as poignant and profound today. Lovers of literature and fine art will want to add this faithful, inexpensive facsimile of an immortal classic to their libraries.
This charming softbound book measures 5-1/4 by 7 inches and has 48 pages, including the facsimile republication of 26 color plates from Songs of Innocence and of Experience, 1826, and a complete printed text of the poems.
5March2008
Price: $5.95 each
This is Not a Dirty book - Porn for Women
More Taboo
Prepare to enter a fantasy world. A world where men fold clothes just so, create delicious dinners, and who just don't think that flatulence is funny. Give the fairer sex what they really want—beautiful full-color photos of hunky men cooking, listening, asking for directions and more.
Each of these terrific photos accompanied by steamy captions - the thoughts and words of the gentlemen in the photos:
I love a clean house!
As long as I have two legs to walk on, you'll never take out the trash.
Have a another piece of cake. I don't like you looking so thin.
Our personal favorite is the young man cleaning the kitty litter:
Who could object to cleaning up after the cutest thing on four legs?
Now this is porn that will leave women begging for more! The Cambridge Women's Pornography Cooperative asked women, young, old, rich, and poor, "What really, really gets you hot?" Armed with their findings, they worked day and night to create Porn for Women. Susan Anderson is a Los Angeles-based photographer who believes the future of porn shouldn't be in the hands of men alone.
This softbound book measures 6 inches square and is loaded with photos and quips in its 96 pages!
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List Price: $12.95 Our Price: $10.50 each
Kitschy Crafts - Forgotten Hobbies of the 20th Century
It's fun, it's retro—and it's back in style. Take a fond look back at the kitschy crafts of the 40s, 50s, 60s, 70s, and 80s, from crocheted doilies to shell-art nightlights. All these nostalgic creations appear in appropriately fashioned period settings that will captivate browsers, and come with instructions for those who just can’t resist creating their own string-art pictures, pink flamingo items, far-out tie dyes, kooky candles, macramé plant hangers, and the one-time must-have on every coffee table: a resin-cast grape cluster. And, of course, who can live without the hottest toy of all? The Sock Monkey Doll. Everyone will have a blast poring over these—even those who have never made a craft in their lives.
Some of the crafts are just pictured (with great illustrations), others have the actual instructions. Just some of the projects (with original instructions) include:
Funky Crocheted Glass Jackets
Daddy-O Christmas Candles
Sock Monkey
Vinyl Record Album Serving Bowls (our favorite!)
Safety Pin Necklace
Macramé Plant Hanger
This fun jacketed hardcover book measures 10-1/4 by 8-4/5 inches and has 128 pages and loads of fun illustrations
26February2008
List Price: $19.95 Our Price: 17.50 each
The Male and Female Figure in Motion by Eadweard Muybridge
More of the Risqué and Taboo
Now artists, illustrators, photographers and scientists can have Eadweard Muybridge's rare, unparalleled true action photographs in an inexpensive paperbound edition. Sixty classic photographic sequences of the mail and female figure in motion, selected from the monumental original collection of 781, have been painstakingly reproduced on fine coated stock for clarity. These photos are taken from the original Animal Locomotion published in 1887. Most figures are nude.
Taken at speeds ranging up to 1/6000th of a second, incredibly precise images show undraped subjects against ruled backgrounds in countless actions, most from three angles: front, rear and three-quarter view. You'll find men boxing, hammering, heaving a rock, walking, running, leaping, climbing steps, carrying weights and playing baseball, cricket and football. Dozens of stopped-action photographs show women walking, turning kneeling, jumping, bending, dancing and dressing. and several sequences illustrate children in various typical activities.
No more complete study of the human body in action has ever been done. Countless split-second motions involved in even the simplest movements - the curling of toes, the shift of gravity centers, the tightening and relaxing of muscles - a myriad of subtle details that make drawings, paintings and animations come to life - are captured in these historic photographs.
Eadweard Muybridge's 19th-century masterpiece remains one of the greatest achievements of art and photography. Now this edition, unprecedented in publishing brings a superb selection of classic action photographs within reach of everyone.
This wonderful softbound book measures 8-1/2 by 11 inches and has 121 pages, almost all with illustrations.
Price: $12.95 each
Hands and How to Read Them
Most of us will remember something about hand shadows from our childhood. Today this delightful, amusing and educational pastime is sadly neglected. But in this fascinating Victorian facsimile book, the subject is explored in full with charming good size illustrations. It was first published in 1860, but still holds its own today. For children and adults of all ages, here is the perfect antidote to today's rush and bustle.
This paperback is a facsimile reproduction of the original Victorian instruction book. It measures 24 by 19 cm, with 48 pages and lots of illustrations.
Printed in England
20February2008
Price: $12.55 each
Hands and How to Read Them - Second Series
This second series of Hand Shadows was published in the mid 1800s, the first series being a great success a few months before. There are exciting new "Hand Shadows" in this edition.
Four Little Bunnies Story Book
by the Same Author, Toodles and Her Friends
by the Same Author, Four Little Puppies
The stars of this cute little reproduction of an antique original are Fluff, Puff, Muff and Algernon. They live with Mother Bunn and Father Bunn.
This sweet little tail tale follows them through preparations for Easter.
The dedication:
Dedicated to all the little bunnies who posed for the pictures in this book.
The unusual nostalgic black and white photos of real bunnies were made possible only by patient unfailing kindness on the part of the photographer, Harry Whittier Frees, at all times.
If you plan on getting this for a youngster in your life, you might want to buy an additional one for yourself.
13February2008
Price: $7.50 Each
Sleep - A Photo essay Miniature
More Peacefulness
From the mid 1960s to the late 1970, New York photographer Michael Putnam chronicled images of people asleep in public places. This little gem has been miniaturized with the complete and beautiful black and white photo essay overseen by Michael.
People are sleeping on trains, in parks, on benches, in waiting rooms and other public areas. At once oblivious to their public exposure, there is an evocative serenity to these unposed portraits, yet there is a poignancy to the stories within each sleeper. This 56-page paperbound book measures 3-3/4 by 5 inches and includes a folded cover for protection.
8December2007
Price: $7.99 each
The Bandanna Book
Now you'll have 103 ways to express the inner you - just by using a simple red bandana! While there seems to be a difference in spelling (is it bandana or bandanna?), the simple truth is that this is a simply marvelous piece of cloth.
The author indicates that this clever book is for cowboys or coeds, for rockers or rebels - the essential accessory for one and for all! Included is an extra large 100% cotton multipurpose bandanna. In fact, this bandanna may save your life - see page 89 for details!
The American Bandanna is more than a fashion statement, it's a cultural icon and the ultimate accessory. It represents the free spirit, the wild west, the hipster, the fashion conscious, the bohemian, the cool urban professional, the rebel and more! And it's ready to meet and assist your every challenge...as the bad hair day savior (page 28), the ultimate luggage tag (page 86), the perfect beer caddy (page 91), guest gag (page 90), movie seat saver (page 106), distress signal (page 110), wine bottle apron (page 80), emergency coffee filter (page 97), and tons of other stuff!
2December2007
Price: $14.95 each
Cat Yoga
More Cats & Kittens
For centuries, people have practiced yoga as a means of improving the body, clearing the mind, and heightening joy. Now your favorite feline can relish the benefits of this ancient discipline with Cat Yoga. Regular practice will help your cat feel more energetic—no more three hour naps in the sun for him! Other benefits include:
Sixty full-color photographs of cats who have already unlocked the power of yoga guide your beloved pet on this journey, paving the way to enlightenment through Cat Yoga.
* No cats pulled a muscle, felt dizzy, or were harmed in any way in the making of this book. Does Fluffy seem stiff and tense? Help him become the lithe and limber feline he was meant to be with Cat Yoga, a hands-on guide to the ancient practice of yoga . . . for cats.
Printed in Singapore
22December2007
List Price: $14.95 Our Price: $12.50 Each
The Constitution of the United States of America
More USA
In 1787, Americans given the right to practice the religion of choice; given the right to say whatever without persecution. In 1787, it was written that house and property were secure from unreasonable search and seizure and that each an every one was given the right to a public trial.
Fifty-five men sat in a sweltering hot room as they fought and argued for all Americans. They created the document that gave rights to all citizens of the United States of America.
The Constitution of The United States of America, inscribed and illustrated by the master calligrapher Sam Fink, brings to life the issues underlying the triumphs of this abiding document. Originally published in pen and ink in 1987, Sam has, at the request of Welcome Books, gone back to the original black-and-white art and painted it entirely, creating a full-color masterpiece.
Each amendment, each article, each word so thoughtfully placed in the Constitution has been given Sam’s profound touch. With a powerful intelligence and a wonderful sense of humor, he has provided us with an entry point, allowing us to read this essential document better, more clearly.
The Constitution of The United States of America is the document ach American must read again and again. There is no more important document in our country. It is the document we must have an intimate knowledge of. It is the document that we must never forget. In 1787, Americans were entrusted with a living document. Have we kept it safe? To begin, we must read it. This, Sam, in his direct and unadorned way, respectful and loving, helps us do.
This wonderful jacketed hardbound book measures 15 by 10-3/4 inches and 136 pages loaded with illustrations.
Made In USA
25November2007
List Price: $34.95 Our Price: $29.95 each
First Edition
The Alphabet from A to Y with Bonus Letter Z!
More Stuff for Kids
The acclaimed entertainer and bestselling author Steve Martin and the wildly clever New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast team up in a weird, wonderful excursion through the alphabet. The ABCs have never had it so good. Created by two of today’s wittiest, most imaginative minds, The Alphabet from A to Y with Bonus Letter Z! is a sheer delight from A to Z.
In twenty-six alliterative couplets, Steve Martin conjures up much more than mere apples and zebras. Instead we meet Horace the hare, whose hairdo hides hunchbacks, and Ollie the owl, who owed Owen an oboe.
Roz Chast contributes the perfect visual settings for Martin’s zany two-liners. Her instantly recognizable drawings are packed with humorous touches both broad and subtle. Each rereading—and there will be many—delivers new delights and discoveries. There, hidden behind Bad Baby Bubbleducks, is a framed picture of a beatnik holding balloons; and the letter C finds clunky Clarissa all clingy and clueless adrift in a landscape cluttered with images ranging from a curiously comfortable clown to Chuck’s Chili stand.
A smart, laugh-inducing introduction to the alphabet for young children, The Alphabet from A to Y with Bonus Letter Z! will also enchant adults with its matchless mix of the sophisticated and the silly.
This 64-page hardcover book with jacket measures 10-1/5 by 8-1/10 inches.
14November2007
Price: $17.95 Each
The Writer's Toolbox
More Kits
Whether you're attempting the Great American Novel, a literary short story or the next best-seller, The Writer's Toolbox has everything you need to overcome writer's block so you can get on with the fun stuff - writing!
When you're ready to write, oftentimes, the only problem is where to start! From getting past that difficult opening line to rounding out characters, The Writer's Toolbox will guide you through any creative obstacle and put you on the path to developing original stories from beginning to end.
Included in the package are:
60 exercise sticks—First Sentences, Non Sequiturs, and Last Straws—to get stories off the ground
60 cards to fuel creative descriptions
4 spinner palettes to ignite unexpected plot twists
a 64-page booklet filled with exercises and instructions that focus on a right-brain approach to writing!
For any aspiring writer, this kit is the perfect first step on the path to literary greatness! Learn to add flash and dram to stories and Enrich your writing with imaginative sensory descriptions. There is even a Protagonist Game to help you with fresh twists.
This innovative kit has been designed by longtime creative writing teacher, Jamie Cat Callan, who is a master teaching artist with the Connecticut Commission on the Arts. She has taught writing at NYU, Yale, UCLA, Wesleyan and more. She is also the author of three novels for young adults and a book on relationships for women. She lives in Massachusetts.
11November2007
Compare at $24.95 Our price $21.95 each
Song of Creation by Saint Francis of Assisi
In 1225 the infirm St. Francis was living in a hut in a church garden. As ill as he was, he wrote this poem in which he looks on the face of creation and blesses it in its totality.
The text of his poem in this volume is a translation by Matthew Arnold. The publisher has illuminated each line with paintings. Praised be my Lord for our brother the Wind is accompanied by a Corot painting of trees bent before a gale, and also an illustration by Frank Papé in which a dove is borne joyously upward. In this manner two faces of wind are shown, and the words made more vividly manifest.
In the last year of his life St. Francis, greatly hampered by his illness and progressing blindness, lived in a reed hut in the garden of the church of St. Damian. There he composed this song in which he expressed his kinship with the various aspects of creation. G.K. Chesterton writes of St. Francis:
"He was above all things a great giver, and he cared chiefly for the best kind of giving which is called thanksgiving."
This 35-page jacketed hardcover book is an elegant presentation of an inspirational work and is filled with glorious illustration in celebration of the heavens, the stars, the water, the earth. living beings and truth.
25October2007
List Price: $18.95 SilverCrow Price: $9.95 each
Poe Illustrated: Art by Doré, Dulac, Rackham and Others
More Edgar Allan Poe
More Hallowe'en
In his brief and troubled life, Edgar Allan Poe (1809-49) was as haunted by tragedy and loss as he was plagued by poverty, illness and alcoholism. Poe's personal misfortunes doubtless influenced the dark romanticism of his work. Obsessed with death, decay and the madness, he created compelling narratives of characters trapped in perverse situations. The profound influence of his stories and poetry extends not only to world literature but also to the visual arts.
This outstanding collection, selected and edited by Jeff A Menges, features scores of memorable moments from Poe's writings recaptured in gripping images of eerie beauty by the author's most acclaimed interpreters.
More than 100 illustrations, reproduced in brilliant color and crisp black-and-white, include hard-to-find images from private collections as well as those from sought-after rare editions. Poe Illustrated features scenes from such popular tales as The Fall of the Hose of User, The Pit and the Pendulum, The Gold-Bug, The Black Cat and The Cask of Amontillado as well as The Bells and other poems. Spanning a fifty-year period, they range from Édouard Manet's 1875 lithographs for a French edition of The Raven to the 1935 illustrations of Arthur Rackham for The Tell-Tale Heart and other stories. Additional contributors include Arthur E Becher, W Heath Robinson, Byam Shaw and Harry Clarke, among others. The editor provides an informative overview, as well as brief introductions to each of the artists and captions for their images.
The authors start by stressing the balance of complementary opposites—left brain/right brain, challenge/comfort, practicality/the sacred—as crucial to beginning the journey. Then through guided imagery, they lead readers through subconscious realms to connect with archetypal sources of inner wisdom. This process frees the creative and healing spirit, connecting explorers with the body's instinctive intelligence, which expresses itself through the creation of art.
This wonderful softbound book measures 8-1/2 by 11 inches and has 81 pages, almost all with illustrations.
23October2007
Price: $15.95 each
Faces of Your Soul: Rituals in Art, Mask-making, and Guided Imagery with Ancestors, Spirit Guides, and Totem Animals
In Faces of Your Soul, Elise Dirlam Ching and Kaleo Ching combine art and archetypes, meditation and acupressure, guided imagery, journaling, and many different creative processes in a collage of healing knowledge and wisdom.
Central to this process is a detailed description of mask-making—including how to work with a partner to mold each other's gauze mask—balanced with self-explorations of the inner experience of this event. Poetry, personal stories, photographs, and a gallery of Kaleo Ching's evocative totemic masks expand the reader's experience of this richly resonant journey to self.
This wonderful softbound book measures 8-1/2 by 11 inches and has 260 pages and lots of great illustrations.
Printed and bound in USA
21October2007
List Price: $21.95 Our Price: $18.25 each
Where Are You, Mona? Pop-up Book
Pop-Up Phobias
This wonderful book was created by the Réunion des Musées Nationaux de France for the Louvre. Caroline Desnoëttes has hidden the Mona Lisa in 8 Famous works from famed French Museums. Moving parts and pop-ups expose her in some very entertaining places:
The Winged Victory of Samothrace Louis XIV, King of France by Hyacinthe Rigaud The Snake Charmer by Henri Rousseau Blue Water Lilies by Claude Monet Hippopotamus by François Pompon The Circus by Georges Seurat Aréaréa (Joys) by Paul Gauguin Van Gogh's Bedroom at Arles by Vincent Van Gogh
The superb photo-engraving and imaginative design makes this wonderful book a treasure for children of all ages! The pictures are accompanied by explanatory text written for children.
This hardcover book measures 8-1/2 by 11 inches.
9September2007
Price $23.95 each
How to Humour a Husband: The Mother's Guide
First published around 1920, this book reflects a time when a woman's place was very much in the home. Now with the lapse of time this book has become both a fascinating and amusing read, though care should be taken regarding any medical advice given.
Some excerpts:
Make a mental note of anything that displeases your husband in the house, and, if reasonable, obliterate the fault.
Some husbands are like pet dogs - they need nursing to keep them in good temper.
There is nothing more disagreeable in life than a home where jarring and quarrelling is the keynote on which they start and finish each round.
This quaint little book certainly illustrates the changes made over the last century. But, it is charming and there are gems of great advice inside, too.
This makes a great little extra gift for the bride-to-be.
8September2007
Price: $10.25 each
The Guerilla Art Kit
We are living in a golden age of self-expression. The explosion of user-created content on blogs and social networking sites moved Time magazine to name "You" their 2006 person of the year.
But while we may be spending a lot more time in virtual worlds, we have not lost the urge to make our physical world more meaningful. By leaving art and ideas in public places, you can affect someone's day—change their mood or their mind—and maybe even change the world in the process! The Guerilla Art Kit shows how small artistic acts can start a revolution.
Keri Smith, noted author of Living Out Loud and the blog Wish Jar Journal, uses her unique drawing and handwriting style to help anyone find and release their inner artist or activist. This visually exciting activity book—full of step-by-step exercises, cut-out projects, sticker ideas, and more—has both fun assignments and handy tips to help you unleash your creative energy into the streets, where you can really make an impact.
From the quick exercises—leaving books for strangers to find, chalking quotes on the sidewalk—to the more involved—making a "wish tree," guerilla gardening, or making your own stencils—The Guerilla Art Kit contains everything you need to put your message out into the world.
This hardcover and spiral bound book contains 144 inspirational pages with 70 color and 10 black and white images.
Printed and Bound in China
29August2007
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Very Naughty Origami
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Who knew that an innocent piece of paper could become a piece of erotic artwork with a few well-executed folds?
Nick Robinson, one of the world's foremost authorities on the ancient Japanese art of paper folding, takes origami where no origami has gone before. Inspired by a bawdy British sense of humor and worldly experience, each project transforms an average piece of chaste, virgin paper into an objet d'art sure to dismay the innocent.
Anyone can master naughty origami from giant sperm to novelty breasts. Each of the 16 projects comes with evocative line-drawings, easy-to-follow instructions and color photographs of the end result. Each project is also accompanied by amusing tales of the inspirations behind it, like Randy Rabbits, which was inspired by the legendary insatiable sexual appetite of our long-eared, cotton-tailed friends.
This is a very special book for anyone in search of a new and unusual hobby, couples searching for stimulating games, jokesters looking for off-the-beaten-track party tricks, and of course, for the origami enthusiast who has every other origami book.
This hardbound guide measures 7-1/10 inch square and includes 96 pages.
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7August2007
Retail Price: $16.95 Our Price: $14.50 each
Lewis Carroll's Games and Puzzles
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Widely known as the author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and other books for children, Lewis Carroll (Charles L. Dodgson) also excelled as a mathematician and inventor of puzzles. Toward the end of his life, Carroll worked on a book of mathematical puzzles and games but died before it was completed. This book is a new compilation of Carroll's surviving puzzles and games, assembled and edited by Edward Wakeling, a Lewis Carroll scholar and writer on mathematics. Included are a substantial number of problems that Carroll had intended for his collection.
Among the problems - many published here for the first time - are these (and 24 more) baffling brainteasers:
In addition to Carroll's original mathematical inventions and games, the editor has supplied a few original problems of his own. Some hints and solutions are also provided. Enhanced with some of John Tenniel's famous illustrations, this volume is a delightful double treat for any puzzle enthusiast or lover of the Alice books.
This trade paperback measures 5-3/8 by 8-1/2 inches, contains xii + 80 pages and includes a foreword by the Earl of Stockton.
28July2007
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci - Volumes I & II
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His works are so well respected, that in the mid-1990's Bill Gates bought one of his notebooks for a record $80.3 million!
Scientist, painter, mechanical engineer, sculptor, thinker, city planner, storyteller, musician, architect - Leonardo da Vinci, builder of the first flying machine, was one of the great universal geniuses of Western civilization. His voluminous notebooks, the great storehouse of his theories and discoveries, are presented here in 1566 extracts that reveal the full range of Leonardo's versatile interests: all the important writings on painting, sculpture, architecture, anatomy, astronomy, geography, topography and other fields are included, in both Italian and English, with 186 plates of manuscript pages and many other drawings reproduced in facsimile size.
The first volume, which contains all of Leonardo's writings on aspects of painting, includes discussions of such basic scientific areas as the structure of the eye and vision, perspective, the science of light and shade, the perspective of disappearance, theory of color, perspective of color, proportions and movements of the human figure, botany for painters and the elements of landscape painting. A section on the practice of painting includes moral precepts for painters and writings on composition, materials and the philosophy of art.
The second volume contains writings on sculpture, architecture (plans for towns, streets and canals, churches, palaces, castles and villas, theoretical writings on arches, domes, fissures, etc.), zoology, physiology (including his amazingly accurate theories of blood circulation), medicine, astronomy, geography (including his famous writings and drawings on the movement of water), topography (observations in Italy, France and other areas), naval warfare, swimming, theory of flying machines, mining, music and other topics.
A selection of philosophical maxims, morals, polemics, fables, jests, studies in the lives and habits of animals, tales and prophecies display Leonardo's abilities as a writer and thinker. The second volume also contains some letters, personal records, inventories and accounts and concludes with Leonardo's will.
The drawings include sketches and studies for some of the master's greatest works of art - The Last Supper, the lost Battle of Anghiari, The Virgin of the Rocks and the destroyed Sforza monument.
This set of 2 trade paperback volumes includes a total of xlvii + 866 pages and includes over 700 illustrations. There are reference tables to the numerical order of the chapters. Appendices include the history of the manuscripts as well as a bibliography of the manuscripts.
Pages are bound in signatures in the method traditionally used for the best books and will not drop out. The books open flat for easy reference and the binding will not crack or split. Paper is opaque, with minimal show-through and will not discolor or become brittle with age.
23July2007
List Price: $45.90 SilverCrow Price: $41.50 per set of 2 Volumes
Simple Soldered Jewelry & Accessories
If you love the soldered jewelry you see at the finest boutiques on ground and on the internet, then why not try it yourself. This wonderful step-by-step guide will help you to design your own personal wearable art jewelry! This unique approach will help you transform ordinary household objects into striking and exquisite jewelry.
The stunning home accessories and jewelry in this collection are unusual and exciting projects for the novice as well as the experienced artisan. Their focal points are miniature metal frames - each displaying a small work of art - such as a scarp of decorative paper and a photograph - between small panels of glass.
As you'll see, the materials and tools you'll use are readily available. The techniques, including assembling the designs, cutting glass, wrapping the edges of your piece with copper foil tape, applying solder to the edges and adding jump rings are fully described inside.
The first several projects, which range from a pretty pendant to festive holiday ornaments, use simple microscope slides as the foundation of the frames. The focus then shifts to working with glass in various small, round and odd shapes. These designs include a coordinated necklace and pair of earrings that reflect nature's beauty in silver and topaz, fun chokers with pendants that showcase porcelain shards and a neck cuff and ring featuring turquoise cabochons. Other projects are enhanced with everything from beads to hand-formed metal embellishments, including a pendant that's decorated with ornate bars from disassembled toggle clasps.
Find out how easy it is to make interesting and more complex pieces of jewelry by combining individual soldered pieces.
Finally, let your creativity shine by altering existing home accent, whether it's transforming oversized paperclips to distinctive bookmarks or giving candle holders and votives dazzling makeovers. With a little imagination, the creative possibilities of the craft are endless!
This 144-page jacketed hardcover book even contains patterns, templates and clip-art!
List Price: $24.95 SilverCrow Price: $20.00 each
The 101 Most Influential People who Never Lived
From Santa Claus to Buffy the Vampire Slayer, from Uncle Sam to Uncle Tom, here is a compelling, eye-opening, and endlessly entertaining compendium of fictional trendsetters and world-shakers who have helped shape our culture and our lives. The 101 Most Influential People Who Never Lived offers fascinating histories of our most beloved, hated, feared, and revered invented icons and the indelible marks they made on civilization, including:
# 28: Rosie the Riveter, the buff, blue-collar factory worker who helped jump-start the Women's Liberation movement
# 7: Siegfried, the legendary warrior-hero of Teutonic nationalism responsible for propelling Germany into two world wars
# 80: Icarus, the headstrong high-flyer who inspired the Wright brothers and humankind's dreams of defying gravity . . . while demonstrating the pressing need for flight insurance
# 58: Saint Valentine, the hapless, de-canonized loser who lost his heart and head at about the same time
# 43: Barbie, the bodacious plastic babe who became a role model for millions of little girls, setting an impossible standard for beauty and style
This fun 336-page trade paperback measures about 8 by 5-1/5 inches.
30June2007
List Price: $13.95 SilverCrow Price: $12.45 each
The Kitty Kama Sutra
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Meow! This feline-centered Kama Sutra will get any cool cat purring very loudly—and its owner laughing. With elaborate illustrations of graceful creatures engaged in such fur-play as the Bombay Belle High-Quality Earlobe Lick, as well as diagrams of the paw’s erogenous zones, this sensuous guide plunges into the mysteries of cat love.
It smoothly covers such topics as “First Intimacies: The Warming Up of Kitty”—including the anointing of the body with rare oils and spices, plus lusty temptress meowing activity—and “The Fires of Ranchipur: The 12 Positions of Kitty Love.” Of course, since every cat loves a cuddle, there’s advice on what to do post-lovemaking.
Our favorite subject is, "Decoding the Rapturous Tail Switch," right at the end!
This soft-bound trade paperback measures 5 by 7-1/2 inches and has 96 pages.
printed in China
12February2007
Spray Paint Paper Craft
If you love our Be About Peace Packing Tape by Spray Paint Artist Beth Myrick, then maybe you'll want to try your hand at this fun art form. You needn't be a tagger or a graffiti artist to excel at spray paint art.
Inside you'll find tons of new ideas for using spray paint in paper crafting! Better known for its practical uses like transforming old furniture into new, now you'll find that aerosol paint actually produces surprisingly elegant, sophisticated, and creative effects on paper and other assemblage art bases.
These fantastic projects come from Krylon, the largest manufacturer of spray paint in the world and a brand favored by hobbyists for its acid-free, archival quality. You'll will first learn the art of creating your own specialty papers with such simple skills as marbling, rubber-stamping, and stenciling, and then use those custom papers to produce scrapbook pages; mini-books; and embellished cards, bags, and tags.
Then, apply what you've learned and try altered art techniques to make bottles, boxes, and purses, or adorn home décor items such as trays, frames, and mirrors. It’s fun and easy!
This fun 128-page jacketed hardcover measures about 10 by 8-3/4 inches.
17June2007
List Price: $24.95 SilverCrow Price: $19.95 each
The Everyman Book of Nonsense Verse
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This hilariously readable collection of classic nonsense poetry, delightfully illustrated throughout, is a showcase of comic talent and sheer silliness.
The Everyman Book of Nonsense Verse features an eclectic spectrum of contributors ranging wildly from Edward Lear and Lewis Carroll to Hilaire Belloc, Ted Hughes, Ogden Nash, and Shakespeare, with illustrations by Mervyn Peake, Quentin Blake, Emma Chichester Clark, Spike Milligan, and the deliciously sinister Edward Gorey.
Such old favorites as The Owl and the Pussycat are accompanied by Macavity: The Mystery Cat and Jabberwocky, while Ted Hughes’s Wodwo sits alone by the bank of a stream in a state of innocence and curiosity that mirrors a child’s sense of wonder at the universe. Whether sweetly funny or deliciously naughty, these masterpieces of the art of the absurd will charm readers both young and old.
The fine cloth binding is accompanied by a silken ribbon self-bookmark, making it look like it costs substantially more - so perfect when gift-giving! This classic measures 8-3/10 by 6-1/5 inches, with 256 pages and a substantial number of black and white illustrations.
Printed and Bound in Germany
01June2007
List Price: $15.95 SilverCrow Price: $14.00 each
A Travel Blessing
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A journey is a most apropos occasion for a blessing, both because of the excitement inherent in travel and the human separation involved. At the moment of parting we wish to speak wisely and concisely and as this is often difficult to achieve, our Travel Blessing is a useful gift.
Mr. Poltarnees' text embodies his long meditated advice, such as:
Travel lightly carrying neither weighty luggage nor burdensome preconceptions.
Let the map inspire you, and the road whisper your next destination.
Every page is illustrated in full color, with images that deepen the impact of the words. Welleran Poltarnees continues his series of blessings on various aspects of life with this book, intended to be given to someone planning or embarking on a journey. He reminds the prospective traveler of the accumulated wisdom of wise journeying, and wishes for them the pleasure and enlightenment that travel can bestow.
Among the counsels Poltarnees gives are: to travel lightly, without heavy luggage or rigid expectations; to keep open to strange events and unfamiliar ways; to take the time to savor each place. Poltarnees has selected images for this book with his usual flair for aptness and surprises us - as he always does - with the excellence and unfamiliarity of his choices.
16June2007
List Price: $19.95 Now: $9.95 each
The Golden Rule Ruler Book
This sweet little book explores the golden rule - do unto others... - which occurs in some form in most of the world’s religions. The Golden Rule is unique in its form - being in shape and size similar to a ruler – and is accented with golden ink so that it is both a book on the golden rule and a golden rule itself.
This soft cover measures 8 inches wide by 2 inches high with 48 pages.
Made in USA
21May2007
Price: $6.95 each
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Originally published in 1917, this little book is loaded with interesting information. Both the first and last several pages are filled with advertisements for the original publisher's other works, such as Cold Meat and How to Disguise It and Keeping Rabbits.
This little instruction manual might convince you to change your profession to one of Fortune Telling. The illustrations are both telling and artistic and the instructions are clear, yet dated (of course) in vernacular.
We are coaxed within by the back cover description:
The foretelling of past and future events by the reading of hands can be traced by to the Ancient Egyptians. This book gives an in depth study of what information can be gained from hands. From "hints to parents and guardians" to "choosing employees and domestic servants." Making in all a fascinating read even for the most sceptic [sic] of readers.
This little paperback is a facsimile reproduction of the original manual. It measures 18 by 11.5 cm, 144 pages with 15 illustrations.
20May2007
Price: $13.25 each