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The History of Four-Footed Beasts...

1967 reprint. Volume 1: The History of Four-footed Beasts: Taken principally from the Historie Animalium of Conrad...

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(04/30/12) 1967 reprint. Volume 1: The History of Four-footed Beasts: Taken principally from the Historie Animalium of Conrad Gesner. Volume 2: The History of Serpents: Taken principally from the Historie Animalium of Conrad Gesner. Volume 3: The Theater of Insects (by T. Muffet)See less

The Complete Woodcuts of Albrecht...

Albrecht Durer was one of the most talented artists the world has ever seen, and his woodcuts, especially those of...

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(03/09/12) Albrecht Durer was one of the most talented artists the world has ever seen, and his woodcuts, especially those of apocolyptic visions are spectacular. This book reproduces these woodcuts faithfully, and the images are not diminished by the format of the book as is often the case. These images are the stuff of nightmares - hell, torment, torture and death, and yet the images are so startlingly realistic as to be almost poignant in their representations. Enjoyt the images for what they are - works of genius. In addition the commentary is worthwhile, with interesting observations of Durer's life and techniques. A valuable addition to an art lover's library, but also a fascinating book for anyone who is interested in genius.See less

Une Semaine De Bonte: A...

(03/09/12) Text: English, French (translation)See less

Art and Symbols of the Occult:...

This lavishly produced, full-color lexicon of occult imagery draws from the traditions of Alchemy, Astrology, Tarot,...

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(01/18/12) This lavishly produced, full-color lexicon of occult imagery draws from the traditions of Alchemy, Astrology, Tarot, Kabbalah, Magic, Tantric Sexuality, and Visionary Art. A provocative chapter on Initiation traces the Western Mysteries from the earliest surviving artwork to More...See less

The Master and Margarita...

“One of the truly great Russian novels of [the twentieth] century.” —NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW “The book is by turns...

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(12/08/11) “One of the truly great Russian novels of [the twentieth] century.” —NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW “The book is by turns hilarious, mysterious, contemplative, and poignant . . . A great work.” —CHICAGO TRIBUNE “Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita is a soaring, dazzling novel; an extraordinary fusion of wildly disparate elements. It is a concerto played simultaneously on the organ, the bagpipes, and a pennywhistle, while someone sets off fireworks between the players’ feet.” —NEW YORK TIMES “Fine, funny, imaginative . . . The Master and Margarita stands squarely in the great Gogolesque tradition of satiric narrative.” —NEWSWEEK “A wild surrealistic romp . . . Brilliantly flamboyant and outrageous.” —Joyce Carol Oates “Sparkling, enchanting, funny, deeply serious and sometimes baffling . . . [The Master and Margarita is] a liberating, exuberant social and political satire combined with a profound moral and political allegory . . . A bravura performance of truly heroic virtuosity, a carnival...See less

Fog Tree Study II

This fine art print is produced on Forest Stewardship Council certified paper, using post-consumer and sustainably...

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(11/28/11) This fine art print is produced on Forest Stewardship Council certified paper, using post-consumer and sustainably sourced paper, and soy-based inks.See less

The Six Wives of Henry VIII

Weir (the genealogical Britain's Royal Family--not reviewed) here uses the many public records and personal letters of...

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(11/27/11) Weir (the genealogical Britain's Royal Family--not reviewed) here uses the many public records and personal letters of the early 1500's to offer a comprehensive, factual version of the tempestuous private and public lives of Henry VIII and his six wives. The story is dominated by Henry and the devolution of his character from an ``affable,'' ``gentle,'' and gifted (he wrote poetry) lover, soldier, and ruler into a porcine, paranoid, impotent old man who was exploited and manipulated by courtiers and women, some of whom he imprisoned, beheaded, or hanged. Henry's brother's widow, Catherine of Aragon, six years the king's senior, became at 24 his first wife. Thirty years later, she was set aside for the ambitious ``virago'' Anne Boleyn, who was in turn beheaded to make room for the gentle Jane Seymour, who died in childbirth and was replaced by the repugnant and scholarly Anne of Cleves. Soon, Anne was retired for Catherine Howard, a 15-year-old ``empty- headed wanton'' who, despite...See less

The Lives of the Great Composers

This third edition of a work that has become a standard resource since its publication in 1981 includes brief but...

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(11/27/11) This third edition of a work that has become a standard resource since its publication in 1981 includes brief but significant changes. A new chapter brings the work up to date, covering later serialists such as Stockhausen and Carter, minimalists Philip Glass and John Adams, and Alfred Schnittke and Peter Maxwell Davies. Schonberg discusses the recent phenomenal success of recordings of Gregorian chant and the search for styles of composition that combine originality and complexity with audience appeal. Women composers Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel, Amy Beach, Cecile Chaminade, Ethel Smyth, and Ellen Taaffe Zwilich are now included. Though each has been given only one paragraph, it is valuable to see them placed in the context of their contemporaries and their predecessors. Schonberg writes for the lay reader. His intention is to humanize the composers and the writing, always highly readable, emphasizes biographical information rather than musical analysis. Recommended for all public and...See less

Beethoven's Letters

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Beethoven

Maynard Solomon is a leading authority on Beethoven, winner of the Otto Kinkeldey Award for "Beethoven Essays" and the...

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(11/27/11) Maynard Solomon is a leading authority on Beethoven, winner of the Otto Kinkeldey Award for "Beethoven Essays" and the author of Mozart: A Life.See less

The Immortal Emperor: The Life and...

'This account of the life of Constantine XI Palaiologos, last Byzantine emperor, is the entertaining and well written...

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(11/27/11) 'This account of the life of Constantine XI Palaiologos, last Byzantine emperor, is the entertaining and well written product of deep research into the diverse sources which cover the last years of the Byzantine Empire ... The main text has the thrust of an epic work of fiction, but the powerful narrative is never allowed to eclipse the constant tight referencing, which gives the book its authority.' The Times Higher Education Supplement 'The value of this work lies in its masterly synthesis of previous scholarship to produce a coherent and very readable account of the life of Constantine XI, the last Byzantine emperor ... a lucid and interesting account of an intriguing subject.' History '... a sympathetic portrait of a ruler who stood out nobly, albeit vainly, against the flow of events'. The Spectator 'Professor Nicol is also able to indulge his 'own enthusiasm for the lunatic fringe of Byzantine genealogy' ... The last chapters provide a highly entertaining addition to the theme...See less

The Isle of the Dead, 1880

This giclée print delivers a vivid image with maximum color accuracy and exceptional resolution. The standard for...

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(11/25/11) This giclée print delivers a vivid image with maximum color accuracy and exceptional resolution. The standard for museums and galleries around the world, giclée (French for “to spray”) is a printing process where millions of ink droplets are sprayed onto the paper’s surface. With the great degree of detail and smooth transitions of color gradients, giclée prints appear much more realistic than other reproduction prints. The high-quality paper (235 gsm) is acid free with a smooth surface.See less

Johannes Cabal the Necromancer...

Question: You’ve been working on Johannes Cabal in its various iterations for many years now, how did it feel spending...

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(02/06/11) Question: You’ve been working on Johannes Cabal in its various iterations for many years now, how did it feel spending so much time with such nefarious characters? Jonathan L. Howard: It’s something of a cliché to say that villains are more interesting than heroes, nor is it even very true, so I shan’t be trotting that particular phrase out. I would suggest that it is the inner life of the character that makes them interesting, and that is true of the virtuous as much as the vile. Cabal does some rather horrible things, it is true, but he never does them purely to give himself the opportunity to curl his waxed moustache—he’s clean-shaven, for one thing—and declaim his wickedness. He always has a reason, and it’s usually a good one. I find fictional villains who are evil because they are evil unengaging. Cabal, on the other hand, has motivations and drives that most can sympathise with, even if the actions he commits based on those drives can be loathsome. For him, the ends always...See less

Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel

Don't let the ease of reading fool you--Vonnegut's isn't a conventional, or simple, novel. He writes, "There are almost...

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(01/26/11) Don't let the ease of reading fool you--Vonnegut's isn't a conventional, or simple, novel. He writes, "There are almost no characters in this story, and almost no dramatic confrontations, because most of the people in it are so sick, and so much the listless playthings of enormous forces. One of the main effects of war, after all, is that people are discouraged from being characters..." Slaughterhouse-Five (taken from the name of the building where the POWs were held) is not only Vonnegut's most powerful book, it is as important as any written since 1945. Like Catch- 22, it fashions the author's experiences in the Second World War into an eloquent and deeply funny plea against butchery in the service of authority. Slaughterhouse-Five boasts the same imagination, humanity, and gleeful appreciation of the absurd found in Vonnegut's other works, but the book's basis in rock-hard, tragic fact gives it a unique poignancy--and humor. --This text refers to the Mass Market Paperback edition.See less

Borges: Selected Poems [Paperback]

During his life, Jorge Luis Borges wore many hats. He was, variously, a poet, an essayist, a short-story writer, a...

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(01/19/11) During his life, Jorge Luis Borges wore many hats. He was, variously, a poet, an essayist, a short-story writer, a librarian, and, for a short time, a poultry inspector. Born in Argentina in 1899, he lived for several years in Europe before eventually returning home to Buenos Aires in the early 1920s. It was here that Borges started his career as a writer. At the age of 24, he published his first volume of poetry, and though he would go on to garner considerable acclaim as an essayist and crafter of fiction, he always considered himself first and foremost a poet. This bilingual edition of Selected Poems, edited by Alexander Coleman, gathers together 200 poems from different periods of Borges's life, including some that will be appearing in English for the first time. Whether he was writing fiction, essays, or poetry, there were certain themes and subjects that Borges returned to time and again. His home town became a favorite topic--in his first collection, Fervor de Buenos Aires, he...See less

John Berryman: Collected Poems...

Making careful editorial decisions about Berryman's sometimes confusing manuscripts and corrected page proofs, Thornbury...

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(01/13/11) Making careful editorial decisions about Berryman's sometimes confusing manuscripts and corrected page proofs, Thornbury brings together all seven collections of short poems and Homage to Mistress Bradstreet. Though one can trace the influences of other poets--Yeats, Auden, Crane--before Berryman's voice emerges, ultimately the subject of his poems is unabashedly the personal. Tortured if brilliant, Berryman draws on his many selves to fashion dialogs between old and new ways of being. Central to the mid-century's intellectual and emotional life, he records the outcome of human experience as the opposite of what we either hope for or expect in shifts of language from dialect to sophisticated rhetoric that underscore the poetry's agony. Not included are Berryman's own published prefaces and notes, copy texts, variants, The Dream Songs , and posthumously published works. - Rosaly DeMaios Roffman, Indiana Univ. of Pennsylvania Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text...See less

American Psycho [Paperback]

“Bret Easton Ellis is a very, very good writer [and] American Psycho is a beautifully controlled, careful, important...

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(11/08/10) “Bret Easton Ellis is a very, very good writer [and] American Psycho is a beautifully controlled, careful, important novel…. The novelist’s function is to keep a running tag on the progress of culture; and he’s done it brilliantly…. A seminal book.” —Fay Weldon, The Washington Post “A masterful satire and a ferocious, hilarious, ambitious, inspiring piece of writing, which has large elements of Jane Austen at her vitriolic best. An important book.” —Katherine Dunn “A great novel. What Emerson said about genius, that it’s the return of one’s rejected thoughts with an alienated majesty, holds true for American Psycho…. There is a fever to the life of this book that is, in my reading, unknown in American literature.” —Michael Tolkin “The first novel to come along in years that takes on deep and Dostoyevskian themes…. [Ellis] is showing older authors where the hands come to on the clock.” —Norman Mailer, Vanity Fair See all Editorial ReviewsSee less

Less Than Zero [Paperback]

“One of the most disturbing novels I’ve read in a long time. It possesses an unnerving air of documentary reality.”...

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(11/08/10) “One of the most disturbing novels I’ve read in a long time. It possesses an unnerving air of documentary reality.” —Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times “Bret Easton Ellis . . . is an extremely traditional and very serious American novelist. He is the model of literary filial piety, counting among his parents Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Nathanael West, and Joan Didion.” —The Washington Post “Never has Hollywood's version of success looked so frightening in a piece of contemporary literature.” —Newsday “Remarkable. A killer—sexy, sassy, and sad. . . . It's a teenage slice-of-death novel, no holds barred. The feel of it hits where it hurts.” —The Village Voice --This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition. See all Editorial ReviewsSee less

Lullaby [Paperback]

The consequences of media saturation are the basis for an urban nightmare in Lullaby, Chuck Palahniuk's darkly comic and...

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(10/11/10) The consequences of media saturation are the basis for an urban nightmare in Lullaby, Chuck Palahniuk's darkly comic and often dazzling thriller. Assigned to write a series of feature articles investigating SIDS, troubled newspaper reporter Carl Streator begins to notice a pattern among the cases he encounters: each child was read the same poem prior to his or her death. His research and a tip from a necrophilic paramedic lead him to Helen Hoover Boyle, a real estate agent who sells "distressed" (demonized) homes, assured of their instant turnover. Boyle and Streator have both lost children to "crib death," and she confirms Streator's suspicions: the poem is an ancient lullaby or "culling song" that is lethal if spoken--or even thought--in a victim's direction. The misanthropic Streator, now armed with a deadly and uncontrollably catchy tune, goes on a minor killing spree until he recognizes his crimes and the song's devastating potential. Lullaby then turns into something of a road...See less

Owl on a Grave, 1836-7

The Giclee printing process delivers a fine stream of ink resulting in vivid, pure color and exceptional detail that is...

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(10/10/10) The Giclee printing process delivers a fine stream of ink resulting in vivid, pure color and exceptional detail that is suitable for museum or gallery display. This art print is produced on a heavy 310 gsm, acid-free and watercolor textured paper.See less

Nightmare, c.1781-82

The Giclee printing process delivers a fine stream of ink resulting in vivid, pure color and exceptional detail that is...

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(10/10/10) The Giclee printing process delivers a fine stream of ink resulting in vivid, pure color and exceptional detail that is suitable for museum or gallery display. This art print is produced on a heavy 310 gsm, acid-free and watercolor textured paper.See less

Assassinated Woman and the Furies

The Giclee printing process delivers a fine stream of ink resulting in vivid, pure color and exceptional detail that is...

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(10/10/10) The Giclee printing process delivers a fine stream of ink resulting in vivid, pure color and exceptional detail that is suitable for museum or gallery display. This art print is produced on a heavy 310 gsm, acid-free and watercolor textured paper.See less

The Nightmare

The Giclee printing process delivers a fine stream of ink resulting in vivid, pure color and exceptional detail that is...

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(10/10/10) The Giclee printing process delivers a fine stream of ink resulting in vivid, pure color and exceptional detail that is suitable for museum or gallery display. This art print is produced on a heavy 310 gsm, acid-free and watercolor textured paper.See less

Priestess of Delphi

Artist John Collier’s style offers beautiful, eloquent expressions of Pre-Raphaelite painting achieved through...

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(10/10/10) Artist John Collier’s style offers beautiful, eloquent expressions of Pre-Raphaelite painting achieved through meticulously descriptive detail, rich color and fine, nearly invisible brushstrokes. His formal artist’s education took place in London under the tutelage of Lawrence Alma-Tadema and Edward Poynter; later he moved to Paris to study with Jean-Paul Laurens. A true perfectionist, Collier (1850 -1934) was committed to the utmost accuracy in his paintings of historical and mythological scenarios, Collier also painted numerous portraits of kings, noblemen, actors and socialites, and was a founding member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters. He was not only a painter but also an illustrator, and a published author of three art books.See less

Franz von Stuck "Sin"

Caution: for technical reasons it is possible that the Internet thumbnail image looks discoloured. It may appear too...

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(10/09/10) Caution: for technical reasons it is possible that the Internet thumbnail image looks discoloured. It may appear too light, too dark, or can be of a different hue. You can be assured that this has no effect on the actual print reproduction.See less

Visconti Sforza Tarot Cards [Misc....

Facsimiler reproduction of 74 extant cards from the 15th century plus four cards recreated to replace cards missing from...

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(10/09/10) Facsimiler reproduction of 74 extant cards from the 15th century plus four cards recreated to replace cards missing from the initial deck. The original cards are now divided between the Pierpont Morgan Library in New York, the Accademia Carrara, and the Colleoni family of Bergamo, Italy.See less

Madame Talbot's Victorian Lowbrow...

TILL DEATH DO US PART LOVER'S UNITE! There is no greater reality than love. There is no nobler possession than the love...

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(10/06/08) TILL DEATH DO US PART LOVER'S UNITE! There is no greater reality than love. There is no nobler possession than the love of another. There is no higher gift from one human being to another than love. The gift and the possession are true sacrifices of life, and should be viewed as precious jewels, without affectation and without bashfulness. Love forever and the Eternal Embrace. This remarkable poster is a standing marvel to all who can appreciate the amount of detail involved in the rendering of such a lovely work of art. A darkly beautiful Victorianesque poster for you and your lover. TILL DEATH DO US PART is a poster that would make a wonderful wedding present or a gift for any time of the year by just saying that you love your lover until all of eternity. They say that a picture is worth a thousand words, and to the one you cherish the most, imagine them speechless with joy. This poster is 17 inches wide by 22 inches deep, generous black ink lushly printed on glossy white stock. The...See less

Victorian Lowbrow Irish Coffin...

A TOAST TO YOUR COFFIN A custom as old as time itself, would be the toast: The word "toast," meaning a proposal of...

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(10/06/08) A TOAST TO YOUR COFFIN A custom as old as time itself, would be the toast: The word "toast," meaning a proposal of health, originated in Rome, where an actual bit of spiced, burned bread was dropped into wine to improve the drink's flavor, absorb its sediment, and thus make it more healthful. The goblet of wine would be passed from guest to guest until it reached the person being honored who would drain the goblet and eat the morsel of bread in the bottom. This poster celebrates the Irish toast, beautifully embellished with a Celtic symbol border, the oak tree the symbol of death and the acorn on the coffin a symbol of life. This poster is 17 inches wide by 22 inches deep, generous black ink lushly printed on old-fashioned type parchment stock. The image for this poster was created with pen and ink on paper and offset printed. No computers were used in the making of this poster, all drawn entirely by hand. Order by #PSTR-1040See less