Captain Kangaroo and His Pals: Adventure on Pirate Island, 1970
Written by Jean Conder Soule
Artwork by Stanley Wilde and Beatrice Kehoe
Captain Kangaroo and His Pals: Adventure on Pirate Island, 1970
Written by Jean Conder Soule
Artwork by Stanley Wilde and Beatrice Kehoe
via Between Channels
The High Fidelity Art of Jim Flora
Yes! The fourth book in the Jim Flora series will be published in June 2013
From Silverpoint to Silver Screen: Andy Warhol 1950s Drawings
Hardcover, 280 pages, over 200 illustrations in colour
This is the best book I’ve bought in a long while, published to accompany an exhibition of Warhol’s early drawings currently on show at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark
More information here
Tana Hoban - Push Pull Empty Full, 1972
Life Nature Library: The Mountains, 1962
Oliver Sacks - Hallucinations
Released today, 6 November 2012
A spider on the wall said hello to me… And for some reason it didn’t seem too surprising that a spider should say hello. We had a conversation about analytic philosophy, a rather technical conversation… Years later I mentioned this philosophical spider to an entomologist friend of mine, and he nodded and said, ‘yes, I know the species’ - Oliver Sacks
The First Time I Heard The Smiths
Compiled and edited by Scott Heim
(author of Mysterious Skin, We Disappear, etc)
Mark Chetwynd-Stapylton - Discovering Wayside Graves & Memorial Stones, 1968
Susan Bösche - Jenny Lives with Eric and Martin, 1983 (English Edition)
This is a Danish book, but most people know it for the role it inadvertently came to play in British history during the 1980s. It was one of the publications dragged through the mud by the Tory establishment in its passing of Section 28 of the Local Government Act of 1987-1988, which outlawed “the teaching in any maintained school of the acceptability of homosexuality as a pretended family relationship.” - via Toys and Techniques
Click here to see a typography design of the book’s title that I created in 2009
Richard Allen late summer reading list