Reads tagged with “out of print”

Amelia Earhart on Motivation, Education, and Human Nature in Letters to Her Mother

“The more one does the more one can do.”

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Alice and Martin Provensen’s Stunning Vintage Illustrations for Twelve Classic Fairy Tales

From “The Happy Prince” to “The Beauty and the Beast,” by way of feminism and art history.

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Maurice Sendak Illustrates Tolstoy

Soulful drawings of sorrow and love by the young and insecure artist.

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Gay Talese’s Portrait of the Tallest Man in New York

“His knuckles are like golf balls and, when he shakes your hand, he envelops your wrist in lukewarm flesh.”

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Gender Politics and the English Language, Pete Seeger Edition

“Building a new and livable world will necessitate thousands of little changes.”

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The Cat and the Devil: Rare Illustrations from James Joyce’s Little-Known Children’s Story

Gerald Rose’s wonderful drawings depicting Joyce himself as the satanic protagonist of his irreverent children’s book.

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I’ll Be You and You Be Me: A Vintage Ode to Friendship and the Imagination, Illustrated by Young Maurice Sendak

“Indescribably lovely and absolutely perfect and — well, pure in the best sense.”

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Edna St. Vincent Millay’s Playful Self-Portrait in Verse

Poetic amusement from the only woman who can get away with calling Edmund Wilson “Bunny.”

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Id-Grids and Ego-Graphs: A Typographic Confabulation with Finnegans Wake

“First we feel. Then we fall.”

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Heinz Haber, Disney’s Chief Scientist, Explains the Atom in 1957

What Aristotle, Aladdin, and Captain Nemo teach us about the promise of nuclear energy.

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Reads tagged with “out of print”

“The more one does the more one can do.”

From “The Happy Prince” to “The Beauty and the Beast,” by way of feminism and art history.

Soulful drawings of sorrow and love by the young and insecure artist.

“His knuckles are like golf balls and, when he shakes your hand, he envelops your wrist in lukewarm flesh.”

“Building a new and livable world will necessitate thousands of little changes.”

Gerald Rose’s wonderful drawings depicting Joyce himself as the satanic protagonist of his irreverent children’s book.

“Indescribably lovely and absolutely perfect and — well, pure in the best sense.”

Poetic amusement from the only woman who can get away with calling Edmund Wilson “Bunny.”

“First we feel. Then we fall.”

What Aristotle, Aladdin, and Captain Nemo teach us about the promise of nuclear energy.

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