No comments about The Censorship Files: Latin American Writers and Franco's Spain (S U N Y Series in Latin American and Iberian Thought and Culture).

No comments about The Idea of the Book in the Middle Ages: Language, Theory, Mythology, and Fiction.

2 comments about Big Little Books: A Collector's Reference & Value Guide.

1. This 176 page guide contains over 800 great, full color, sharp photos of book covers. The values have been updated to 1996. Topics range from Whitman Big Little Books and Big Big Books to Tarzan, Dell Fast Action, Disney and Comic Character books. The amount of text is limited to brief discussions of history, where to purchase, condition, storage and care. If you enjoy collecting this topic, you'll enjoy this volume and refer to it often. Add it to your library.



2. It was disappointing since it only covers the Whitman Publishing company Little Big Books. If you want the prices of other publishers you need an additional book. The number of pages in the LBBs are not listed nor are the artists. There are many pluses to this guide. The photographs of the books are great. They show you what the books look like in top condition. The guide is easy to use, since the listings are alphabetical. In the back is a handy check list to mark off what you have in your collection (a column for the price you paid for your book would have been useful). It is a book I would recommend to add to your references on Little Big Books.

No comments about Prayer Portraits: A Keepsake Prayer Journal Personalized With Photos of Those You Love.

No comments about Donald McGill: The Michael Winner Collection.

No comments about The Illustrated Herbal.

1 comments about The Earliest Irish and English Bookarts: Visual and Poetic Forms Before A.D. 1000 (Middle Ages Series).

1. This book is a must for art historians, designers of objects, students of the development of thought in Europe, and everyone who appreciates careful, extremely intelligent research, which opens up fresh vistas on the birth of Europe.

   If you are fascinated by the early Irish texts and illuminations, you need this book, to better appreciate the extraordinary capacity of their authors to structure their work on principles of design which I found (and find) astonishing.

   If you are not, but enjoy thought-provoking reading on matters which need re-thinking (how Europe came to be, for instance), the rigor and originality of Stevick's work will satisfy... and refresh your questions.

   Stevick himself would not claim so much; the (great) value of his work is for us to decide.

No comments about Running a Message Parlor: A Librarian's Medium-Rare Memoir About Censorship.

1 comments about A POUND OF PAPER.

1. This is an enthralling read, fun from beginning to end, brimming with book lore, the thrill of discovery, the fun of collecting. Baxter has written many books, both fiction and the biographies of others in the movie business.

   In this marvelously constructed volume, there are anecdotes of Larry McMurtry of Lonesome Dove fame, back in his days when he owned and operated a bookstore. Some nice stuff about Paul McCarthy and other celebrity book collectors.

   Baxter collected Graham Greene, and there are some wonderful stories about him, creating fables and imaginative associated copies, some of which have become legend. I am elated to learn that Baxter is writing a sequel.

   Most of all, what comes out in this book, is the contagious fun that Baxter has as a reader, an author, and a collector of books. This volume is handsome to behold in red boards, with decorative frontispieces and a striking dustjacket that must be seen in person to be appreciated. It has its own built in red ribbon bookmark.

No comments about Imaging Aristotle: Verbal and Visual Representation in Fourteenth-Century France.