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Books > Arts & Architecture > Antiques & collectables > Books, manuscripts, ephemera & printed matter
The only official collector's guide to all the Teenage Mutant Ninja
Turtles merchandise--from T-shirts to games to watches. Also
includes comments from the creators which will give the readers the
"inside story" on the Turtles. Everything the Turtle fanatic would
ever want to know, to own, or collect. Illustrated.
At last, here is the compendium of cigarette packs that collectors
have been waiting for! Joe Giesenhagen has compiled a fantastic
collection of cigarette packs dating from the 1880s to the present,
in all colors, shapes and sizes. See the incredible diversity of
character in cigarette packaging over the past century, and the
amazing creative effort some companies exerted to make their
cigarettes appear exotic, luxurious, colorful, feminine, masculine,
festive, or even medicinal. This book includes color photographs of
over 4000 packs of cigarettes to accompany in-depth listings of
Merchants & Vendors, Factory Numbers, Merchant Code list,
up-to-date pricing information, anecdotes of the industry, and
much, much, more. Cigarette packs are a great field for collecting,
with a huge diversity, availability, and price range. This book is
an excellent ground-level entrance for anyone looking to begin a
collection and a valuable resource for anyone in the process of
building one.
The charming painter of Endymion's Sleep, Atala's Funeral and
Chateaubriand's Portrait was also a poet. Thanks to his classical
education, Girodet (1767-1824) was the author of free translations
of ancient Greek and Latin poets. In 1808 he tried the to imitate
and at the same time illustrate the Odes of Anacreon, whose edition
was published posthumously. The Musee du Louvre holds the precious
manuscript of this intense and complex work, in which the poetic
research and graphic invention - compositions or vignettes -
intertwine with the text. Only a facsimile could restore this
organic whole in its integrity. This book reconstructs the history
of the manuscript, the various stages of the project and the
posthumous versions, and analyses the artist's aesthetic sources.
Girodet's handwriting is sometimes difficult to decode, but the
complete transcription allows the reader to appreciate all the
refinements and to rediscover the charm of Anacreontic poetry. Text
in French.
This catalogue offers a fascinating selection of books from China,
Japan, Tibet, Nepal, Burma, Thailand and Java from the 11th to the
18th century, most of them with illustrations. Each is fully
discussed and richly illustrated.
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