Destination Books Booth Debut

09/01/2019

Destination Books Booth Debut

A very good looking and colorful booth with an eclectic blend of books and magazines made its debut at the 2019 Georgia Book and Paper Fair at the Labor Day Decatur Book Festival. Thanks to the many who helped make it possible: Denise Casey, Bonnie Poore, Barb Shirkey, Mark Burrell, Paul Dry, Jim Adams and the Georgia Antiquarian Book Association.

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Books for Sale

Barely Maps: 100 Minimalist Maps
A complete review if this gorgeously printed book of interpretative maps is available at http://bit.ly/2QRfSVT at my companion blog at thebookshopper.org. ($20) plus shipping.
Remediation: Understanding New Media
Written for media junkies, this trade paperback (including color photographs) from MIT Press makes the argument that new media borrows quite a bit from old media. ($4) plus shipping.
The Graphic Work of M.C. Escher
Taschen GMBH publishers celebrated its 25th anniversary by reissuing these 76 M.C. Escher prints in a single book in 2008. Did you forget to save the posters from your dorm room in the 1970s? Now you can relive that decor for only $6 (plus shipping) while playing music of J.S. Bach.
The Arts and Crafts Movement
This hardback with dust jacket from Chartwell Books (1995) looks at this movement through the lens of architecture, glass, ceramics, metalwork. Lots and lots of color photographs. The Arts and Crafts movement grew from those who "deplore the ugliness of mass-produced goods made from cheap materials on the assembly line." Don't we all? ($6) plus shipping. ISBN 0-7858-0456-0
Edward Hopper and the American Imagination
A hardback collection of fiction and poetry from writers who have found inspiration in Hopper's work. Includes works by Paul Auster, Ann Beattie, Tess Gallagher, Walter Mosley, Leonard Michaels, and James Salter. W.W. Norton ($6) plus shipping.
Down & Outbound: A Mass Transit Satire by Murray Browne
This episodic work of fiction was designed specifically for mass transit riders ($11) plus shipping.
McLuhan on the Nature of Media: Essays, 1952-1978
Edited and compiled by Richard Cavell, this collection of essays (in hardback) is perfect for McLuhan junkies ($20). ISBN 978-1-58423-582-8
Seurat by Richard Thomson
Although this 1985 Phaidon Press Limited edition is in softcover has 225 illustrations with 60 in color on fine stock paper. ($10) + shipping. ISBN 0714826758
Songbook by Nick Hornby (signed)
This is a 2002 first edition of Nick Hornby's brief essays about the music he loves. Includes the accompanying CD ($50) plus S & H. The book is signed by Hornby and inscribed as well.
Juliet, Naked by Nick Hornby (signed)
This 2010 paperback is signed by the author.($15) Plus shipping

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