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A Visit to William Blake’s Inn: Vintage Illustrated Verses for Innocent and Experienced Travelers
A Visit to William Blake’s Inn: Vintage Illustrated Verses for Innocent and Experienced Travelers

“William, William, writing late by the chill and sooty grate, what immortal story can make your tiger roar again?”

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Illustrators and Visual Storytellers Map the World
Illustrators and Visual Storytellers Map the World

“Cartography can be an incredible form of escapism, as maps act as proxies for experiences.”

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A Cat-Hater’s Handbook: Irreverent Vintage Gem Illustrated by Tomi Ungerer
A Cat-Hater’s Handbook: Irreverent Vintage Gem Illustrated by Tomi Ungerer

An ailurophobe’s delight circa 1982.

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High Times: An Illustrated History of Aviation
High Times: An Illustrated History of Aviation

From Icarus to the Wright Brothers, by way of hot air balloons and dirigibles.

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My Brother’s Book: Maurice Sendak’s Posthumous Love Letter to the World
My Brother’s Book: Maurice Sendak’s Posthumous Love Letter to the World

“Because love is so enormous, the only thing you can think of doing is swallowing the person that you love entirely.”

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The Green Beads: Edward Gorey and the “Disturbed Person”
The Green Beads: Edward Gorey and the “Disturbed Person”

“How it knocks my heart!”

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Edward Gorey’s Vintage Illustrations for H. G. Wells’s <em>The War of the Worlds</em>
Edward Gorey’s Vintage Illustrations for H. G. Wells’s The War of the Worlds

Two classic masters of the macabre and wonderful, together.

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Our Friend the Atom: Disney’s 1956 Illustrated Propaganda for Nuclear Energy
Our Friend the Atom: Disney’s 1956 Illustrated Propaganda for Nuclear Energy

“Atomic science began as positive, creative thought.”

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Yan Nascimbene’s Stunning Illustrations of Italo Calvino Classics
Yan Nascimbene’s Stunning Illustrations of Italo Calvino Classics

Meditations on life in philosophical watercolors.

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The Shrinking of Treehorn: An Edward Gorey Illustrated Gem, 1971
The Shrinking of Treehorn: An Edward Gorey Illustrated Gem, 1971

The unusual story of a little boy who grows littler.

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