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Will Schofield

Will Schofield is the editor of 50 Watts (original name: A Journey Round My Skull) and Writers No One Reads.
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    The Takeo Takei Lab of Ornithology

    Works by one of my favorite artists, Takeo Takei (1894-1982). These prints come from one of the jewels of my collection — a handmade artist book that a friend found for me on a recent trip to Japan.

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    LIVRENBLOG

    I first featured Livrenblog back in January 2009. Since that time I’ve been ogling many more treasures from this wonderful French blog. Here is a taste of what you will find in their archives. Copying what I wrote back then:

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    Les Fleurs du Skull

    Carlo Farneti’s illustrations for a 1935 edition of Baudelaire’s Les Fleurs du Mal. From the collection of Richard Sica:

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    “We have captured a most rare specimen of an extinct insect which was extremely popular at the beginning of the century.”

    This second installment of my Soviet-era children’s book series features George Kovenchuk‘s 1974 illustrations for Klop (The Bedbug) by Mayakovsky. You can read a thorough summary of the famous 1929 play — not originally intended for children! — at SovLit.…

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    Women, Snakes and Stalkers – South Asian Book Covers

    These South Asian book covers come from Quinn Dombrowski’s blog Women, Snakes and Stalkers. Quinn has been photographing covers from the PK (Indo-Iranian languages and literatures) section of the University of Chicago’s Regenstein library. She’s already photographed 1200!

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    Czechoslovakian Expose

    The first three parts of this book cover series were titled “Slovakian Expose,” but this was mainly because I found these images at online Slovak bookstores. (See the last part.) The previous posts were in fact a mix of Czech…

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    Itsi Dreamt That He Went to the Forest

    These illustrations are by Isaachar Ryback for In the Forest, a 1922 children’s book by Kvitko. Ryback was a painter born in the Ukraine in 1897. He settled in Berlin in October 1921 and became a member of the Novembergruppe…

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    A Cockerel Device

    These wood engravings all come from books published by The Golden Cockerel Press, a private press operating in England between 1920 and 1961. I was scanning from a 1975 American book Bibliography of The Golden Cockerel Press, 1921 – 1949…

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    Oedipus at Hiroshima – Living Design in Japan

    Some (more) inspiring Japanese design nuggets excavated from my ramshackle book collection.

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    Folksy Fruits – Anthropomorphic Adventures in Opal Orchard

    Folksy Fruits was part of T. Benjamin Faucett’s “Moon Queen” series, which included four titles, all published in 1924. The other three books are Frolicsome Flowers: They See the Wonderful “Rajah Rug,” Brainy Berries: A Night in Crystal Cave, and…

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    Tresky Plesky or Kvanki Vanki

    International children’s books from the collection of Rilla Alexander:

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    Climbing Mount Analogue

    Thanks to Martin Schmidt from Frankfurt, Germany for sharing his work. Follow Martin on his tumblr Whispers from the Forests and see his illustrations, collages, and photos on his flickr page.

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