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Salutations! Wit and Wisdom from Charlotte's Web
from E.B. White and Garth Williams
It's hard to forget such a wonderful book, yet easy to be transported back
with these fabulous illustrations and perfect nugget-text. This beautifully
packaged book with colorful illustrations provides a collection of humorous
quotes and special descriptions from Charlotte's Web, in a collection
for readers of all ages. Our favorite find from CIROBE 2007.
Hardcover. Originally $9.95, now $2.99
 The
Shadow of the Wind
by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Young Daniel Sempere, son of a bookseller in Barcelona, is taken by his
father to a very strange, surreal place: a mausoleum for lost books. There,
the great adventure of his life begins, an adventure that takes the form
of a quest with Don Quixote allusions. Translated from the Spanish
by Lucia Graves (daughter of Robert Graves), New York Times Bestseller.
New trade papberback, $15
 The
Art of the Market: Two Centuries of American Business as Seen Through Its
Stock Certificates
by Bob Tamarkin and Les Krantz
Americans love to collect things, especially things of historical value.
Within the past 25 years, collectors have focused on stock certificates,
the official term for which is scripophily. This book explains scripophily's
popularity in terms of art work and historical significance. The authors,
who are both business writers, have compiled a lavishly illustrated work
filled with colorful, arcane specimens dating from early Colonial times
to the present day. The history of Wall Street has been filled with numerous
boom or bust periods, and it is fascinating to see stock certificates--many
with the actual signatures of tycoons such as John D. Rockefeller Sr.,
Cornelius Vanderbilt, or J.P. Morgan--as snapshots representing these time
periods. Sadly, as we approach the end of the century, stock certificates
are being phased out in favor of electronic bookkeeping. The authors successfully
remind us that "business art" need not be an oxymoron.
Hardcover. Originally $35, now $14.99
 The
Four Seasons of Mary Azarian
Essays by Lilian Macbean Hart
Wonderful seasonal woodcuts by Caldecott-winner Mary Azarian!
The book features approximately 50 hand colored and 50 black and white
prints, accompanied by a wonderful collection of essays by fellow Vermonter
Lilias Macbean Hart. A most wonderful gift.
Trade paperback. Originally $24.95, now $10
 His
Dark Materials
comprising of The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife and
The Amber Spyglass
by Philip Pullman
The movie opens December 7, but you have to read the books first.
Or at least read The Golden Compass first, and then continue the
trilogy after the big screen adaptation. It's deserving of all the
hype you hear, and we're wild fans over here. Children and adults
will both love these literate books, and anyone with a fantasy side or
a weakness for Harry Potter will devour this well-written alternate universe.
Do I need to say more?
New boxed paperback set, $22.50. 20% during December 2007
 Women
and Art: Contested Territory
by Judy Chicago and Edward Lucie-Smith
For centuries, the world of art has explored the many aspects of being
a woman. With this candid art history text, authors Judy Chicago and Edward
Lucie-Smith have given readers a rich and in-depth study of the way art
has depicted the experiences of being a woman. Women and Art: Contested
Territory features insightful writings and such chapters as ‘The Divine,’
‘Asking For It?’ and ‘Body as Battleground.’ It’s a wonderful and sometimes
shocking book no matter which gender you happen to be.
Hardcover, UK edition (different cover than shown above). Originally
$35, now $16.
 Guide
to the Lakes
by William Wordsworth
Wordsworth's Guide to the Lakes is a first hand account of his feelings
for the area that was a major source of his inspiration. It is also an
important piece of Romantic literature in its own right. This edition contains
Wordsworth's definitive 1835 text. With introduction and notes by Stephen
Gill. Perfect gift for any Anglophile.
Trade paperback. Originally $17.95, now $11
 Grave
Matters
by Mark C. Taylor and Dietrich Christian Lammerts
Dietrich Christian Lammerts's photographs show us the graves of the artists,
architects, writers, philosophers and musicians who shaped Western culture;
at once beautiful and disturbing, they suggest an alternative history of
modernism and its precursors. Grave Matters raises difficult questions:
What place do the modern greats have in the postmodern age? Who decided
where and how they would be buried? Who wrote their epitaphs? What do their
deaths, and their graves, tell us about their lives and suggest about our
own? The words and images of Grave Matters inscribe the future that
we all face, and to ponder this memento mori is to meet life anew.
Trade paperback. Originally $25, now $12
 becoming
being passing
by Sabine Pankert
Following a single bunch of tulips as it passes through time, the twenty-eight
lyrical images in this beautifully produced volume document the changes
that result from life's design. The book begins with a poem, "Stages" by
Hermann Hesse, and then shuns further text allowing the viewer to be captivated
by the visual narrative traced by the sumptuous photographs. One
of our best CIROBE finds for gift-giving.
Folio hardcover. Originally $45, now $24
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