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Visions of space and the future in Japan in the 70s and 80s. What you are seeing here is a selection of scans from my (somewhat endless) stash of books and...
In 1922, Harrap published The Fairy Tales of Perrault with pictures by Ireland's Illustration God Harry Clarke (1889–1931). While not as frightening as Clarke's...
This amazing French graphic novel—Kris Kool by Philip Caza—was published in 1970 by Eric Losfeld/Le Terrain Vague. The scans are courtesy of David from Jive...
Aeron at Monster Brains just featured some vintage German ad cards from the enormous collection of flickr user cigcardpix. My eye was drawn immediately to his set...
Carl Kylberg (1878–1952) was an important and controversial figure in twentieth-century Swedish art. Though I can't find much information about him in English,...
Four illustrations by Andrzej Strumiłło for Robert Stiller's Narzeczony z morza (Poland, 1971). (It's a children's book, which may not be so obvious.)...
Here are some scans from a grainy 1960s Penguin Pelican of Two Screenplays: The Blood of a Poet and The Testament of Orpheus by Jean Cocteau. I featured the above...
"And You, What Do You Seek?" [the title of the last chapter, never written] Here's the outrageous City Lights edition of Rene Daumal's Mount Analogue. Apparently it...
I've been threatening this post since Jan.2008, continually putting it off because of the hair-raising prospect of destroying the book by scanning. It...
Selected works by Ruth Marten In Ruth Marten's remarkable world, Pinnipeds and Quadrupeds must fight off the advances of hirsute Lotharios while foot fetishists...
"There once was a girl named Nicole Pennsylvania Snow who, when she was ten months old, slept in an abstract bed designed and decorated for her by a famous artist."...
I feature here Heinz Valk's illustrations for a children's poem book by Helvi Jurisson (Estonia). In submitting these scans, Piia from A Lifetime of Temporary...
These illustrations come from a Czech anthology which pairs stories for children with six different Czech illustrators. Kveta Packovska's section is a little too...
This post originally appeared on July 30, 2008 Sometimes at night -- the Flea meditated on a certain occasion -- when, as now, I am up reading because of...
I spent a few hours recently digging through the Japanese blog That's Eurobeat—through all 5,443 images in fact. While the blogger has been scanning vintage...
Sammy Harkham of Family recently edited and published a wonderful 48-page zine of artwork and memoirs by Joanne Oldham. I've included some of my favorite images and...
As featured in the book Chinese Graphic Design in the Twentieth Century by Scott Minick and Jiao Ping About half of this 160-page book is devoted to the 1920s and...
Illustrations from a 1928 edition of Andersen's fairy tales, from 50 Watts fave Takeo Takei Bio from the Kodomo No Kuni site:Takei was born in Suwa, Nagano...
20 bookplates from the John Starr Stewart Ex Libris Collection at the University of Illinois Library PK at BibliOdyssey featured bookplates from the first half of...
Fabric collages by Marta Pieczonko, who was born in 1980 in Warsaw and lives and works in Cologne. "forest sign I," 2010 "forest sign II," 2010 "forest sign...
I found these posters as expired auction listings and I hope you enjoy this rather lazy image dump. Another installment of Swedish book cover design is coming soon....
Illustrations by Shotaro Honda for the 1938 children's book Koganemaru (こがねまる) Bio for Shotaro Honda (1893–1939) via Kodomo no kuni:Honda was born in...
These book covers originally appeared as part of a "centerfold" in Gratuitous Type, "the pamphlet of typographic smut." Gratuitous Type publisher Elana Schlenker...
Illustrations by Heinrich Strub for Sumse Sumsebrumm (Switzerland, 1946), from the collection of Arthur van Kruining This is an adaptation of a children's rhyme by...
Illustrations by Heinrich Strub for Das Feuerzeug (The Tinderbox / Fyrtøiet) by H. C. Andersen (Switzerland, 1956) Michael at Stopping Off Place kindly donated...
Drawings by Graham Lambkin from Dripping Junk (Penultimate Press, 2010) Penultimate Press has now released three books by Lambkin: Dumb Answer to Miracles...
Illustrations by K. F. E. von Freyhold for Hasenbuch (Germany, 1908) This book, in theory at least, gives some context to Tom Seidmann-Freud's 1924 rabbit book....
Illustrations by Jaan Tammsaar for Kits Sarapikus, a Belarusian tale (Estonia, 1984) You might remember the cover from last year's post "Mõista, Mõista: Vintage...
Paper theater ephemera from Pellerin and beyond Click though each image for more details provided by the sources, Agence Eureka (one of my favorite blogs) or...
Illustrations by H. L. Stephens for Death and Burial of Poor Cock Robin, circa 1865 Thank you Martin Poynter for turning me on to this (so-called!) children's...
Illustrations from the 1926 children's book King Ramu-ramu (ラムラム王), from 50 Watts fave Takeo Takei Bio from the Kodomo No Kuni site:Takei was born in...
"Buste De Femme De Profil" by Georges Clairin (1843–1919), 1899 There are some nice scans of this artist's work at The Pictorial Arts via Venus Milk/rbs of...
Illustrations by L.W.R. Wenckebach for In De Muizenwereld by Agatha Snellen (Netherlands, 1894) I found these scans by flickr user Jan Willemsen as part of his...
Twenty-five works by Spanish illustrator Rafael de Penagos (1889–1954) Links: —most of these images come from the hundreds featured at the Colecciones...
I've done two features on the vast book collections of brothers Uilke (uk vintage) & Hillebrand (twincovercollector). Some of my favorite covers in their...
Illustrations by Eugen Osswald for Ball der Tiere (The Animals' Ball, Germany, 1917) I featured a couple images from this book back in March 2009. Since that...
