Take Ivy Reprint
Men’s fashion blog favorite, Take Ivy, is being reprinted this summer by powerHouse. Amazon has it up for pre-order now for less than twenty bucks, which definitely beats paying $449 on eBay.
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I believe that a publisher’s imprint means something, and that if readers paid more attention to the publisher of the books they buy, their chances of being disappointed would be infinitely less.
I believe that good books should be well made, and I try to give every book I publish a format that is distinctive and attractive.
—Alfred A Knopf, 1957
(⇒ via general projects)
Another Science Fiction
Another Science Fiction is the title of Megan Prelinger’s upcoming book featuring advertisements from the era of the great Space Race. If her name sounds familiar, it might be through her work on the Prelinger Library.
In a NY Times feature on the book, Prelinger states:
These images suggest that the furthest reach of what humankind hoped to find in space was in fact the very essence of infinity.
The above illustration is by Willi K. Baum. For more science and tech ads of the 50’s and 60’s, peruse this huge flickr set.
Another Science Fiction is currently available for preorder at Amazon.
Mendulsundian
From afar: “The leading on that cover is downright Mendelsundian.”
And a glance at the dust jacket confirmed it.
A lodger is a man who does not forget the cold drafts, the snow on the window ledge, the feel of his knees at night, the taste of a mutton chop in a room in which he held his head all night.
—John Hawkes, The Lime Twig
Secret of the Crooked Cat
Cover art sketch for The Secret of the Crooked Cat by Harry Kane, approved by Alfred Hitchcock.
When scholar and ex-con Baxter Dunn arrives in the Midwest town of Medicine Man, he learns that a mysterious benefactor has deeded him a rambling old house. As the building grows around him, Bax encounters a number of wonders and terrors, including family secrets, windows into Faerie, and a murderous animal dubbed the Hound of Horror. However, the greatest challenge Bax faces may be his twin brother’s jealousy and rage. Both terrifying and touching, this book of wonders speaks eloquently about the nature of responsibility and family, but Wolfe’s unforgettable world is marred by stereotypes—a flighty and submissive Japanese woman, a scandal mongering journalist, a rapacious and sadistic dwarf—and a rushed, incoherent ending.
—Publisher’s Weekly blurb on The Sorcerer’s House
Attn: Taschen; Re: Magic
Please send Modcult a review of your recent volume, Magic: 1400’s - 1950’s. Not only are we proponents of contributing author Ricky Jay, we also like pretty pictures from the past.
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That’s right. Over 4,000.
Ronsbooks.com is pleased to introduce you to over 4,000 books and media about Trains.
It’s so sad how the internet has killed off niche book selling.
Under the Indigo Dome
Ala Ebtekar, Zire Gonbade Kabood (Under the Indigo Dome II), 2009
Acrylic, watercolor, and ink on book pages mounted on canvas.
(⇒ via a journey around my skull)
Folk Photography
Luc Sante has a new book out published by Yeti, entitled Folk Photography. It compiles his collection of early twentieth century postcards with his writing on their importance to history.
Sante discussed the book over at Art Forum:
The title I gave the book is more poetic than scientific and is meant to suggest several things. One is the grassroots, leaderless aspect to the postcards. Around 1900, small, portable Kodak cameras became widely available; in 1905, the postal rate for postcards was reduced to a penny; and rural free delivery was advancing at this time. All of a sudden, people everywhere were able to make and send these cards, and, strikingly, you get similar kinds of compositions being made simultaneously in Washington state and New Jersey. Second, I see them, in a nonacademic way, as a link in the chain that connects Civil War and government expedition photographers of the late nineteenth century to Walker Evans and his fellow Farm Security Administration photographers in the 1930s. Third, the popular documentary impulse these cards represent is similar to the “folk” music of the era, much of which was about news (think of songs about the Titanic or about railroad crashes and murder). The postcards and the music are not only about disseminating information but also about making something of it, meditating on important events.
Pearson Does McCarthy
Designed by David Pearson, whom you may remember from this cover.
(⇒ via caustic cover critic)
A-B Modulars
Paul Brown
A-B Modulars, 1977
Plotter drawing on paper
45.7 x 42.3 cm
Paul Brown edited for White Heat Cold Logic, which chronicles early British computer art from 1960-1980. I thought I had written about it when it was initially published earlier this year by MIT Press, but apparently I was mistaken.
(⇒ via V & A collection)
Mundus Subterraneus
On a visit to southern Italy in 1638, the ever-curious Kircher was lowered into the crater of Vesuvius, then on the brink of eruption, in order to examine its interior. He was also intrigued by the subterranean rumbling which he heard at the Strait of Messina. His geological and geographical investigations culminated in his Mundus Subterraneus of 1664, in which he suggested that the tides were caused by water moving to and from a subterranean ocean.
(⇒ via a wikipedia excursion)
Speaking of Mr. Wolfe
His new novel, The Sorcerer’s House is now available from Amazon. Rising Shadow has this abstract:
The new Gene Wolfe fantasy novel is told entirely in a series of letters. Only Wolfe could have made this so gripping, a surprising page-turner of a book.
In a contemporary town in the American midwest where he has no connections, an educated man recently released from prison is staying in a motel. He writes letters to his brother and to others, including a friend still in jail. When he meets a real estate agent who tells him he is the heir to a huge old house, long empty, he moves in, though he is too broke even to buy furniture. He is immediately confronted by supernatural and fantastic creatures and events.
His life is utterly transformed. We read on, because we must know more and we revise our opinions of him, and of others, with each letter. We learn things about magic, and another world, and about the sorcerer Mr. Black who originally inhabited the house. And then, perhaps, we read it again.
Sirius Fiction, publishers of Lexicon Urthus, has released a companion dictionary for Gene Wolfe’s two-volume The Wizard Knight series.
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