Download or read book The Pleasures of Collecting Classic Reprint written by Gardner Teall and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-21 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Pleasures of Collecting The true collector is born, not made. Yet one cannot discover the mirror Without knowledge of the reflection. The contentment to be found in the acquisition and in the contemplation of the things that are dear to the heart of the antiquarian and the art-lover is a contentment that is the gift of the gods, always awarded the intelligent, though not always disclosed to them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Pleasures of Collecting written by Gardner Teall and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-12 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Pleasures of Collecting Your true collector does not apologize for his hobbies; he exalts their virtues. Necessity may occasionally compel him to resort to the camouflage of mid-interest, as when his family is not in sympathy with his pursuits; or, again, as when fate has placed him in arid communion with unsympathetic associates, individuals whose personalities have developed independently of their souls, leaving them pronounced in the directions they invariably select; directions, in consequence, invariably divergent from those paths which the true collector loves to tread. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Collecting Antiques for Pleasure and Profit written by Felix Gade and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-26 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Collecting Antiques for Pleasure and Profit: The Narrative of Twenty-Five Years Search for Antique Furniture, Paints, China, Paintings and Other Works of Art, Copiously Pictured With Many Fine Examples I first began to collect works of art in a small way as long ago as 1893, and it has seemed to me that my experiences as a collector may be of interest to those who, like myself, take a keen delight in acquiring things antique. I cannot boast of ever having bought an article that turned out to be worth thousands of pounds, although such prizes are possible; and this book is in tended for the collector of moderate means who is looking for pieces such as I possess. The illustrations - with a few exceptions - are from photographs, taken by myself, of specimens which have actually belonged to me, and many of which are still in my possession. When I began my collection I had no intention of sell ing any of my acquisitions, but since I retired from my profession and have had more time to devote to my hobby I have sold many of them and replaced them with finer specimens. This is the usual method with collectors, and one which is to be recommended. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The ABC about Collecting Classic Reprint written by James Yoxall and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-26 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The ABC About Collecting About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Book Collecting Classic Reprint written by J. Herbert Slater and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-09-15 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Book Collecting The book lover however is not content with mere acquisi tion, he feels it his duty to know something of the inner life, so to speak, of each volume on his shelf - something. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Big Book of Chic written by Miles Redd and published by Assouline Publishing. This book was released on 2020-06-24 with total page 5 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Internationally acclaimed interior design sensation Miles Redd is known for his quirky brand of cozy glamour. His unique aesthetic vision is characterized by playful mélanges of high and low, invigorated with whimsical splashes of color and modern gestures. Drawing on inspirations ranging from Richard Avedon fashion photographs to Rene Gruau illustrations, Redd has crafted interiors for a wide array of venues. His Trademark approach to design has brought to life rooms infused with boldness, fantasy, and sophistication. This lavishly illustrated volume will be an inspiration to anyone interested in spirited, eclectic design.
Download or read book Talents and Geniuses written by Gilbert Highet and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-02-16 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Talents and Geniuses: The Pleasures of Appreciation This is a new selection from the discussions of literature and the other arts which I have been broadcasting during the past five years or so. (every Tuesday evening at from Station wqxr in New York City: other places, other times, from coast to These essays are not merely transcriptions, but have been revised and partly rewritten for this book. Two earlier volumes have appeared: People, Places, and Books in 1953, and A Clerk of Oxenford in 1954, both published by the Oxford University Press in New York. These books and the weekly broadcasts have brought me a huge mass of correspondence from friendly readers and listeners. I hope that this fresh collection will not disappoint them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Catalogue of a Choice Collection of Second Hand Books on Sale at Extremely Low Prices Classic Reprint written by Joseph Diprose and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2019-04 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Catalogue of a Choice Collection of Second-Hand Books, on Sale, at Extremely Low Prices A varied collection of very curious facts in a highly interesting branch of Natural History, which will conduce to the entertainment at en of those who may be careless of the pleasures of wine, but yet partial to the beautiful phenomena of the Vegetable kingdom. -. Monthly Review. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Collection of Mr Adrien F Wellens of Mt Airy Pennsylvania written by Anderson Galleries and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-05 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Collection of Mr. Adrien F. Wellens, of Mt. Airy, Pennsylvania: Consisting of Early English and American Furniture, With Contemporary Embellishments and Works of Art I have your letter of the 7th in which you state that my collection is catalogued and the manuscript ready for the printer. As I wrote you previously, the reason that I am disposing of my collection by auction is that I have sold my estate at Mt. Airy. I also feel that with your method, a greater number of collectors will have the opportunity to enjoy the pleasures of selection - a pleasure I enjoyed during the past twenty years. Needless to say, it is with genuine regret that I part with my things, and still it gives me a certain amount of pride to think of the many rare items which could not be secured at first hand to-day, as was pos sible when I was an active buyer. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Novels in Three Lines written by Félix Fénéon and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2011-08-17 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A NEW YORK REVIEW BOOKS ORIGINAL Novels in Three Lines collects more than a thousand items that appeared anonymously in the French newspaper Le Matin in 1906—true stories of murder, mayhem, and everyday life presented with a ruthless economy that provokes laughter even as it shocks. This extraordinary trove, undiscovered until the 1940s and here translated for the first time into English, is the work of the mysterious Félix Fénéon. Dandy, anarchist, and critic of genius, the discoverer of Georges Seurat and the first French publisher of James Joyce, Fénéon carefully maintained his own anonymity, toiling for years as an obscure clerk in the French War Department. Novels in Three Lines is his secret chef-d’oeuvre, a work of strange and singular art that brings back the long-ago year of 1906 with the haunting immediacy of a photograph while looking forward to such disparate works as Walter Benjamin’s Arcades Project and the Death and Disaster series of Andy Warhol.
Download or read book A Collection of Jewels Classic Reprint written by W. H. Moore and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-19 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Collection of Jewels I know I've been blessed more than I could pick up From the sweetest of pleasure, to the bitterness of cup. Man may be limited as for time as he thinks, But God at man's folly as often he winks. Nets, they are woven, for us as of old. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Collecting Children s Books written by Noah Fleisher and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-10-29 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When We Were Very Young Children's Books delight the young and the young at heart. From the gentle ritual of Goodnight Moon to the incredible odyssey of bad boy Max in Where the Wild Things Are, these timeless tales remain with us as certainly as a mother's hug. Collecting Children's Books showcases some of the finest books and accompanying artwork from 1900 to the present in a warm, informative and exquisite fashion, reminding us all of the joy found in this transcendent genre. From Winnie-the-Pooh to Curious George, Alice in Wonderland to Mary Poppins, and from The Poky Little Puppy to The Very Hungry Caterpillar, you will enjoy a treasure trove of remarkable--and highly collectible--children's literature. This delightful hardcover book features: • More than 100 years of classic and collectible Children Books, including values for signed and unsigned First Edition works. • 500 color images • Original art from such masters as Garth Williams (Charlotte's Web, Stuart Little), Maurice Sendak (Where the Wild Things Are) and Dr. Seuss. • Collecting tips, what to look for when buying, and lists of suggested readings by era for those seeking to rediscover the pleasure--and value--found in children's literature.
Download or read book The Oliver R Barrett written by OLIVER R. BARRETT and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-18 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Oliver R. Barrett: Lincoln Collection The collector's flair leading Barrett since he was a boy has re sulted in a mass of source materials wherein are many items that would have probably been lost for historical purposes but for the sagacity and method by which they were sought. This is a story by itself, a man sized narrative of many findings related to a passion for the genuine, and to the personal attachment that may go with tokens, belongings, keepsakes, records touching great occasions of the past. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book PLEASURES OF COLLECTING written by Gardner Callahan 1878 Teall and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2016-08-26 with total page 378 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 The Book Collector Classic Reprint written by Charles Nodier and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-24 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Book Collector Should like to warn you, from the outset, that this I essay will be as lively as a speech by Mathurin Cordier1 or a chapter of Despautere!2 God, Nature, and the Academy have enclosed my imagination within these narrow bound aries, which it is no longer able to overstep. At least you can always refrain from reading me, and in that are more fortunate than I who, following the dictates of a too exigent publisher, have no choice but to write. The draw ings were made, the plates were ready; and the only thing needed to complete the issue was a long and unprofitable text. Well, then here 1t is! But you will be disappointed if you expect to find in it one of those clever portraits to which your favorite authors have accustomed you. If what you are seeking is an original and telling sketch of the bouquz'm'ste, the second-hand-book addict, then you need go no further. Pause here, and, following the modest advice of certain almanacs: See illustration on opposite page. The collector of books is a type which we would do well to define, since everything points to his disappearance in the very near future. The printed book has existed at the most for some four hundred years, yet books are already accumulating in some countries in a manner that threatens the very equilibrium of the globe. Civilization has reached the most unexpected of its ages, the age of paper. Now that everyone writes books, no one Shows any particular eager ness to buy them. Besides, our young authors are well onthe way to building up whole libraries for themselves out of their own works. They need only be left to their own devices. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Old Book Collector s Miscellany written by Charles Hindley and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-22 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Old Book Collector's Miscellany: Or, a Collection of Readable Reprints of Literary Rarities, Illustrative of the History, Literature, Manners, and Biography of the English Nation During the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries 3.-'george Peele's Mery Jests. 4, - Vinegar and Mustard, or Wormwood Lectures. 5. - jackson's Recantation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Et Cetera 1924 written by Vincent Starrett and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-01-27 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Et Cetera, 1924: A Collector's Scrap-Book Of the first importance, I believe, are such uncollected masterpieces as Middleton's The Dis triet Visitor and Hearn's Margarita Pareja, while the uncollected sketches of Stephen Crane and the poems of Dowson, Wilbur Underwood, Lord Dunsany, Saltus, Neil Lyons and Lionel Johnson are items of great attractiveness to the collecting fraternity. Indeed, among the esteemed writers of our day there are few unrepresented by some brief, forgotten bit of prose or verse. The volume is, I believe, quite honestly, what I have endeavored to make it - an authentic first edition of half the collected men of contemporaneous letters; and in addition it is a fascinating omnium-gatherum for the mere reader who cares no more for a first than for a twenty-first edition. Finally, in the words of the jolly old preface-writer whose name in othergenerations was legion, if lovers of books shall find in this book half the happiness this book-lover put into the making of it - Why, then, I shall not have labored in vain. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
