Download or read book The Romance of Letterpress written by James Cryer, IV and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of Wal Cryer, a freshly-minted letterpress printer from Sydney. In November 1913, at the tender age of 21, he packed his bags and jumped on board a steamer to try his luck working his way across America as a printer.It is a story about what society looked like at that time: that uniquely fragile era just before the Great War, which hovered tentatively on the brink of modernity, when, if you ventured out onto the road you could be trampled to death by a horse, or run over by a car. It is also a story with a romantic undercurrent, as he left behind a fiancé in Sydney, to whom he sent a veritable treasure-trove of postcards as he wended his way across the Mid-west, facing both unemployment queues and tough bosses - and getting work in Chicago before heading to New York and then via several ships back to Australia when the war broke out. (There is also the mysterious "L" which we will touch upon, ever so discreetly.)It is, therefore, the story of a collision of two cultures (America's and Australia's), which could not have been more different and which still are today!Finally, it is the story of how printing at that time was beginning to penetrate into the nooks and crannies of people's everyday lives, in ways both amusing and pervasive, that we now take for granted today. None of this would have been brought to light, however, if it wasn't for a remarkable discovery - not only the diary itself, tucked away in a long-forgotten cupboard, but also a much-battered album bulging with post-cards. This then is a look down a time-tunnel, 1914 under a microscope!There is, however, yet another deeper theme underpinning all this - what is the nature of the relationship we have with our grandparents?
Download or read book The Romance of Letterpress written by James Cryer and published by . This book was released on 2019-11 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of a young man from Sydney working his way across America as a letterpress printer.
Download or read book The Romance of a Letter written by Lowell CHOATE and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Dictionary Story written by Sam Winston and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2024-08-06 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The much-anticipated new picture book from the best-selling, award-winning creators of A Child of Books. Dictionary wishes she could tell a story like other books. So one day, she decides to bring her words to life. How exciting it is to finally have an adventure on her very own pages! But what will she do when her characters collide and everything gets all in a jumble, causing the most enormous tantrum to explode? This isn’t what she wanted at all! Luckily her friend Alphabet knows exactly what to do and sings a song that brings calm and order to Dictionary’s pages once again.
Download or read book The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction written by Jayashree Kamblé and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-08-11 with total page 553 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Popular romance fiction constitutes the largest segment of the global book market. Bringing together an international group of scholars, The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction offers a ground-breaking exploration of this global genre and its remarkable readership. In recognition of the diversity of the form, the Companion provides a history of the genre, an overview of disciplinary approaches to studying romance fiction, and critical analyses of important subgenres, themes, and topics. It also highlights new and understudied avenues of inquiry for future research in this vibrant and still-emerging field. The first systematic, comprehensive resource on romance fiction, this Companion will be invaluable to students and scholars, and accessible to romance readers.
Download or read book Growing Up Underground written by Steven Heller and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2022-10-04 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An entertaining coming-of-age memoir from Steven Heller, award-winning designer, writer, and former senior art director at the New York Times. Featuring 100 color photographs, Growing Up Underground takes readers on a visually inspired look back on being at the center of New York's youth culture in the 1960s and 1970s. Steven Heller's memoir is no chronological trek through the hills and valleys of his comparatively "normal" life, but instead, a coming-of-age tale whereby, with luck and circumstance, he found himself in curious and remarkable places at critical times during the 1960s and ‘70s in New York City. Heller's delightful account of his life between the ages of 16 and 26 shows his ambitious journey from the start of his illustrious career as a graphic designer, cartoonist, and writer. Follow his journey through stints at the New York Review of Sex, Screw, and the New York Free Press, until he became the youngest art director (and occasional illustrator) for the New York Times Op-Ed page at age twenty-three.
Download or read book The Printmaking Ideas Book written by Frances Stanfield and published by Ilex Press. This book was released on 2019-08-08 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether you're discovering printmaking for the first time or you're looking for fresh ideas to reinvigorate your practice, you'll find plenty of inspiration in The Printmaking Ideas Book. From traditional methods such as screenprinting, etching and lithography to contemporary techniques such as risography and digital collage, this book is packed with new ideas, methods and tips on every page. Brimming with experimental, arresting and beautiful examples of printmaking from all over the world, it will take your creativity further and awaken new ideas.
Download or read book The Romance of a Letter written by Alice K B 1839 Hopkins and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2015-12-06 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Adventures in Letterpress written by Brandon Mise and published by Laurence King Publishing. This book was released on 2014-02-10 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tactile, retro and idiosyncratic, hand-printed objects have an undeniable appeal, especially in a digital age. In recent years, the nearly obsolete craft of letterpress has been resurrected by artists and designers who have rescued cast-iron presses from basements and scrap yards. Adventures in Letterpress features over 200 examples of the resulting work: elegant cards, edgy broadsheets and everything in between. Beautiful, humorous and sometimes just plain weird, the projects featured in the book perfectly illustrate the vibrant future of this once-endangered medium.
Download or read book The Pink of the Seams written by Sanna Wani and published by . This book was released on 2019-04-18 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does imagining being a bird have to teach us about being human? Sanna Wani and Penrose Press have your flightless feelings covered in this original collection of poetry and art. The Pink of the Seams explores ideas of closeness and distance, solidity and ethereality through brief, beautiful poems including Things My Mother Says to Me in the Attic, For the Little God, and The Earth Is Soft. Each poem is accompanied by visual art by Brianna Tosswill: complex geometric images inspired by Islamic pattern and intertwined with botanical elements in bright, rich colour. This is a collection to spend time with.
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Download or read book Taking Things Seriously written by Joshua Glenn and published by Princeton Architectural Press. This book was released on 2007-08-23 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is a book about the things that inspire all of us, from the sacred to the profane, from everyday objects like a marble or a rubber stamp, to the more surprising such as a dirt pile or a turtle tail. Artists, writers, designers, among many others, contribute their objects and ruminations that encourage, motivate, and energize their own creativity."--Provided by publisher.
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Download or read book History Riddles written by Leon Conrad and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2015-05-29 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enjoy stories? Enjoy history? You’ll love this book! How well do you know your history? Pit your wits against this collection of 30 cultural riddles featuring popular historical stories and legends. Engage with these riddles out of sheer fun and curiosity as a reader, or use them when facilitating an Odyssey Dynamic Learning System journey (Liberalis Books, 2015). You’ll find they intrigue, tease, inform, educate, enlighten, and entertain. Still guessing? There are clues to help you. Think you’ve cracked them? Check out the background information for the answers and for suggestions on exploring topics further. How many riddles will you be able to solve?
Download or read book From Telegrapher to Titan written by Valerie Knowles and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2004-03 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Van Horne, general manager of the CPR, pushed through construction of the transcontinental line and went on to become company president.
Download or read book The Magazine The Complete Archives written by Glenn Fleishman and published by Aperiodical LLC. This book was released on 2015-08-12 with total page 1524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ebook collects the nearly 300 stories that first appeared in The Magazine, an independent biweekly periodical for narrative non-fiction. It covers researchers "crying wolf," learning to emulate animal sounds; DIY medical gear, making prosthetics and other tools available more cheaply and to the developing world; a fever in Japan that leads to a new friendship; saving seeds to save the past; the plan to build a giant Lava Lamp in eastern Oregon; Portland's unicycle-riding, Darth Vader mask-wearing, flaming bagpipe player; a hidden library at MIT that contains one of the most extensive troves of science fiction and fantasy novels and magazines in the world; and far, far more.
Download or read book Illustrations Optics and Objects in Nineteenth Century Literary and Visual Cultures written by L. Calè and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-12-09 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paying attention to the historically specific dimensions of objects such as the photograph, the illustrated magazine and the collection, the contributors to this volume offer new ways of thinking about nineteenth-century practices of reading, viewing, and collecting, revealing new readings of Wordsworth, Shelley, James and Wilde, among others.
