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Life and Times of Jo Mora

Author : Peter Hiller
Publisher : Gibbs Smith
ISBN 13 : 1423657365
Total Pages : 457 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (236 download)

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Download or read book Life and Times of Jo Mora written by Peter Hiller and published by Gibbs Smith. This book was released on 2021-04-20 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An essential addition to any collection of Western art and Americana, The Life and Times of Jo Mora provides an in-depth biography of this gifted illustrator, painter, writer, cartographer, and sculptor. Jo Mora (1876–1947) lived the Western life he depicted in his prolific body of visual art, comprising sculpture, paintings, architectural adornments, dioramas, and maps. He explored California Missions, the natural glories of Yosemite, California’s ranch life, and eventually the culture of the Hopi and Navajo in Arizona. During his travels, Mora documented observations that became the source material and inspiration for much of his later artwork. The magnitude of Mora’s insights into his life and work, as described in his own words—many presented here in this book—cannot be underestimated. Jo Mora’s many diaries, journals, and literary efforts reveal an intellectual discernment, originality, and humor that enhance our appreciation of his work. Remarkably, throughout his life Mora supported his family solely through a series of art commissions that ranged from restaurant murals to heroic-scale sculpture. He welcomed risks and challenges, was unafraid of hard work, and did nearly everything well, from writing children’s stories to commanding an army battalion-in-training to shooting mountain lions. Ever modest, he seemed to think that this versatility was nothing extraordinary. Peter Hiller’s thoughtful presentation of Jo Mora’s life is seen here in all of its creative glory.

The American Bookbinder

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 616 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book The American Bookbinder written by and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Bookbinders' Finishing Tool Makers, 1780-1965

Author : Tom Conroy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781584560579
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (65 download)

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Download or read book Bookbinders' Finishing Tool Makers, 1780-1965 written by Tom Conroy and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Bookbinding in Early America

Author : Hannah Dustin French
Publisher : Worcester : American Antiquarian Society
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Bookbinding in Early America written by Hannah Dustin French and published by Worcester : American Antiquarian Society. This book was released on 1986 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reference tool for Rare Books Collection.

The Paper Box Maker and American Bookbinder

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 596 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book The Paper Box Maker and American Bookbinder written by and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The American Bookbinder ...

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The American Bookbinder ... written by and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Women in the Bookbinding Trade

Author : Mary Van Kleeck
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Women in the Bookbinding Trade written by Mary Van Kleeck and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Dark Archives

Author : Megan Rosenbloom
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374717427
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)

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Download or read book Dark Archives written by Megan Rosenbloom and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2020-10-20 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On bookshelves around the world, surrounded by ordinary books bound in paper and leather, rest other volumes of a distinctly strange and grisly sort: those bound in human skin. Would you know one if you held it in your hand? In Dark Archives, Megan Rosenbloom seeks out the historic and scientific truths behind anthropodermic bibliopegy—the practice of binding books in this most intimate covering. Dozens of such books live on in the world’s most famous libraries and museums. Dark Archives exhumes their origins and brings to life the doctors, murderers, and indigents whose lives are sewn together in this disquieting collection. Along the way, Rosenbloom tells the story of how her team of scientists, curators, and librarians test rumored anthropodermic books, untangling the myths around their creation and reckoning with the ethics of their custodianship. A librarian and journalist, Rosenbloom is a member of The Order of the Good Death and a cofounder of their Death Salon, a community that encourages conversations, scholarship, and art about mortality and mourning. In Dark Archives—captivating and macabre in all the right ways—she has crafted a narrative that is equal parts detective work, academic intrigue, history, and medical curiosity: a book as rare and thrilling as its subject.

Women Bookbinders, 1880-1920

Author : Marianne Tidcombe
Publisher : British Library
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women Bookbinders, 1880-1920 written by Marianne Tidcombe and published by British Library. This book was released on 1996 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the period 1880 to 1920 the number of women bookbinders in Britain increased dramatically. This is an introduction to the role and work of women craft binders during the period, including Sarah Prideaux, Katharine Adams, Sybil Pye and the Guild of Women Binders.

Adventures in Bookbinding

Author : Jeannine Stein
Publisher : Quarry Books
ISBN 13 : 1610580214
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Adventures in Bookbinding written by Jeannine Stein and published by Quarry Books. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each project in this book combines bookbinding with a specific craft such as quilting, jewelry making, or polymer clay, and offer levels of expertise: basic, novice, and expert. Illustrated step-by-step instructions and photographs demonstrate how to construct the cover pages, and a unique binding technique, easy enough for a beginner to master. Each project also features two other versions with the same binding geared to those with more or less experience. The novice version is for those who have no knowledge of the craft and want shortcuts, but love the look. For the quilter's book, for example, vintage quilt pieces become the covers so all that's needing in the binding. Or if you're interested in wool felting use an old sweater. This offers great opportunities for upcycling. The expert version is for those who have a great deal of knowledge and proficiency of a certain craft - the master art quilter, for example. For this version, an expert guest artist has created the cover and the author has created the binding. This offers yet another creative opportunity - the collaborative project. Since crafters often get involved with round-robins and other shared endeavors, this will show them yet another way to combine their skills. No other craft book offers the possibilities and challenges that Adventures in Bookbinding does. Readers will return to it again and again to find inspiration and ideas.

The Journal of Dora Damage

Author : Belinda Starling
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1608196046
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book The Journal of Dora Damage written by Belinda Starling and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: London, 1860: On the brink of destitution, Dora Damage illicitly takes over her ailing husband's bookbinding business, only to find herself lured into binding expensive volumes of pornography commissioned by aristocratic roués. Dora's charm and indefatigable spirit carry her through this rude awakening as she contends with violent debt collectors, an epileptic daughter, evil doctors, a rheumatic husband, errant workmen, nosy neighbors, and a constant stream of wealthy dilettantes. When she suddenly finds herself forced to offer an internship to a mysterious, fugitive American slave, Dora realizes she has been pulled into in an illegal trade of sex, money, and deceit. The Journal of Dora Damage conjures a vision of London when it was the largest city in the world, grappling with the filth produced by a swollen population. Against a backdrop of power and politics, work and idleness, conservatism and abolitionism, Belinda Starling explores the restrictions of gender, class, and race, the ties of family and love, and the price of freedom in this wholly engrossing debut novel. REVIEWS: "Unfortunately, Starling's debut novel will be her last; she died prematurely last year at the age of 34. Although the plot is a bit too crowded and overworked-a common novice mistake-this historical melodrama artfully evokes the contradictions inherent in Victorian society. When Dora Damage is forced by circumstances-an invalid husband and an epileptic daughter-to take over the family bookbinding business, she is inexorably drawn into a London netherworld she barely knew existed. As if binding pornographic books for a circle of aristocratic clients isn't bad enough, she is also compelled to harbor Din Nelson, a fugitive American slave. Unable to suppress her emotional and physical attraction for Din, she gives into desire and her real education begins."- Booklist

The Pope's Bookbinder

Author : David Mason
Publisher : Biblioasis
ISBN 13 : 1927428165
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (274 download)

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Download or read book The Pope's Bookbinder written by David Mason and published by Biblioasis. This book was released on 2013-05-17 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Entertaining, moving, informative, intelligently hopeful: I know of few other books like this one to warm the cockles of a booklover's heart." —Alberto Manguel "For anyone who loves books too well—who lusts after them, lives in them, mainlines them—David Mason’s memoir will be a fix from heaven. Heartful, cantankerous, droll, his tales of honour and obsession in the trade gratify the very book-love they portray. An irresistible read." —Dennis Lee "An atmospheric, informative memoir by a Canadian seller of used and rare books ... Gossipy, rambling and enchanting, alive with Mason’s love for books of every variety."—Kirkus Reviews From his drug-hazy, book-happy years near the Beat Hotel in Paris and throughout his career as antiquarian book dealer, David Mason brings us a storied life. He discovers his love of literature in a bathtub at age eleven, thumbing through stacks of lurid Signet paperbacks. At fifteen he’s expelled from school. For the next decade and a half, he will work odd jobs, buck all authority, buy books more often than food, and float around Europe. He’ll help gild a volume in white morocco for Pope John XXIII. And then, at the age of 30, after returning home to Canada and apprenticing with Joseph Patrick Books, David Mason will find his calling. Over the course of what is now a legendary international career, Mason shows unerring instincts for the logic of the trade. He makes good money from Canadian editions, both legitimate and pirated (turns out Canadian piracies so incensed Mark Twain that he moved to Montreal for six months to gain copyright protection). He outfoxes the cousins of L.M. Montgomery at auction and blackmails the head of the Royal Ontario Museum. He excoriates the bureaucratic pettiness that obstructs public acquisitions, he trumpets the ingenuity of collectors and scouts, and in archives around the world he appraises history in its unsifted and most moving forms. Above all, however, David Mason boldly campaigns for what he feels is the moral duty of the antiquarian trade: to preserve the history and traditions of all nations, and to assert without compromise that such histories have value. Sly, sparkling, and endearingly gruff, The Pope's Bookbinder is an engrossing memoir by a giant in the book trade—whose infectious enthusiasm, human insight, commercial shrewdness, and deadpan humour will delight bibliophiles for decades to come.

American Signed Bindings Through 1876

Author : Willman Spawn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Signed Bindings Through 1876 written by Willman Spawn and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Describes and illustrates 315 bookbinder's tickets, stamps, and engraved designations, from the 1750s through 1876. Identifies 233 binders from 19 states and 84 cities and towns from Maine to New Orleans and as far west as Little Rock. Provides brief descriptions of bindings and explanatory notes for many binders"--Provided by publisher.

In-House Bookbinding and Repair

Author : Sharon McQueen
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442229586
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book In-House Bookbinding and Repair written by Sharon McQueen and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-06-08 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In-House Bookbinding and Repair is a working document that contains information on setting up both a basic bookbindery and repair lab (i.e. the design, equipment, tools, and supplies needed) and instructions on rebinding and repairing cloth-bound books. Highly illustrated to greater enhance its usefulness, this manual also covers various aspects of book repair and preservation, and contains appendixes on manufacturers and suppliers of materials and products discussed in the text, an extensive glossary of terms, a separate section on Internet resources, and a helpful bibliography.

Bookbinding in America

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (313 download)

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Download or read book Bookbinding in America written by and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

English Bookbinding Styles, 1450-1800

Author : David Pearson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780712348287
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (482 download)

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Download or read book English Bookbinding Styles, 1450-1800 written by David Pearson and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new book provides guidance on recognising and dating English bindings of the handpress period. It deals not only with the luxury end of the market (where so many binding studies have concentrated) but rather with the whole spectrum of binding options - the plain and middling as well as the fine. In addition to providing practical help in placing particular bindings within their time and place, the book encourages a new approach to historic bindings, concentrating not so much on binders and workshop attributions as on what a binding can tell us about previous owners and their approach to books. Well illustrated with over 200 photographs, it will be valued by librarians, book historians, booksellers, collectors and anyone who deals with early books.

Bookbinding & Conservation

Author : Don Etherington
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781584562771
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (627 download)

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Download or read book Bookbinding & Conservation written by Don Etherington and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new autobiography by renowned bookbinder Don Etherington takes the reader through his lifelong journey of bookbinding and conservation. Etherington documents his experiences teaching these trades and traveling throughout Europe and to the United States. He tells of his generous contribution to the conservation effort in Florence, Italy, following the great flood that caused incredible damage to thousands of books. Bookbinding and Conservation is a unique account of the personal and professional life of this important figure in the world of binding and conservation. Etherington's memoirs contain numerous personal photographs that richly illustrate his story. The autobiography is followed by a pictorial catalogue of many of Etherington's fine bindings. This book is an excellent pick for anyone interested in bookbinding and the lives of major bookbinders.