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Название: Kay Nielsen: East of the Sun and West of the Moon ISBN: 3836532298 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783836532297 Издательство: Taschen Рейтинг: Цена: 26570.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть Описание: TASCHEN`s centenary reproduction of East of the Sun and West of the Moon revives a classic collection of 15 Norse folktales illustrated by the beloved Danish artist Kay Nielsen, one of the most famous children`s book illustrators of all time. Based on a precious first edition and including 11 of his extremely rare watercolor originals, the book...
Автор: Daniel Noel Название: Kay Nielsen: East of the Sun and West of the Moon ISBN: 383657022X ISBN-13(EAN): 9783836570220 Издательство: Taschen Рейтинг: Цена: 13280.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть Описание: Fairy-Tale Finesse Reviving East of the Sun and West of the Moon, Kay Nielsen's Scandinavian masterwork
Step into a world of star-crossed lovers, magical winds, mischievous giants, and trolls, through some of the most exquisite illustrations in publishing history. In this gorgeous reprint, TASCHEN revives the most ambitious publication project of beloved Danish artist Kay Nielsen, one of the most famous children's book illustrators of all time.
First published in 1914, East of the Sun and West of the Moon is a celebrated collection of fifteen fairy tales, gathered by legendary Norwegian folklorists Peter Christen Asbjornsen and Jorgen Engebretsen Moe on their journeys across Norway in the mid-nineteenth century. Nielsen's illustration edition of Asbjornsen and Moe's tales is considered a jewel of early 20th-century children's literature, highly sought-after by art and book collectors worldwide. An original signed copy of the book sold at auction in 2008 commanded the highest price ever paid for an illustrated children's book.
This finely crafted reprint restores the stunning detail and artistry of Nielsen's images to their original splendor. Featuring 46 illustrations, including many enlarged details from Nielsen's rare original watercolors. The book is printed in five colors, comes with three accompanying essays, illustrated with dozens of rare and previously unseen artworks by Nielsen, explore the history of Norwegian folktales, Nielsen's life and work, and how this masterpiece came to be. ..".a beautiful reprint of the fairy tale, with its sumptuous illustrations presented in full glory." -- VOGUE.com
Автор: West Clare Название: Oxford Bookworms Collection: From the Cradle to the Grave ISBN: 0194226921 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780194226929 Издательство: Oxford University Press Рейтинг: Цена: 2130.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии. Описание: These stories explore the trials of life from youth to old age: the idealism of young people, the stresses of marriage, the anxieties of parenthood, and the loneliness and fears of older people. The wide variety of writing styles includes black humour, satire, and compassionate and realistic observation of the follies and foibles of humankind. This collection contains stories by Evelyn Waugh, Roald Dahl, Somerset Maugham, Saki, Frank Sargeson, Raymond Carver, H.E. Bates, and Susan Hill.
Автор: Kalugin Oleg Название: Spymaster: My Thirty-Two Years in Intelligence and Espionage Against the West ISBN: 0465014453 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780465014453 Издательство: Little Brown Рейтинг: Цена: 24510.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: A KGB general`s impressively illuminating memoir of the final years of the Soviet Union
Автор: Sackville-West Vita, Raven Sarah Название: Sissinghurst: Vita Sackville-West and the Creation of a Garden ISBN: 1250060052 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781250060051 Издательство: Macmillan USA/Holtzbrink(MPS) Цена: 21450.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: From 1946 to 1957, Vita Sackville-West, the British poet, bestselling author of All Passion Spent and maker of Sissinghurst, wrote a weekly column in the Observer depicting her life at Sissinghurst, showing her to be one of the most visionary horticulturalists of the twentieth-century. With wonderful additions by Sarah Raven, a famous British gardener in her own right who is married to Vita's grandson Adam Nicolson, Sissinghurst draws on this extraordinary archive, revealing Vita's most loved flowers, as well as offering practical advice for gardeners. Often funny and completely accessibly written with color and originality, it also describes details of the trials and tribulations of crafting a place of beauty and elegance.Sissinghurst has gone on to become one of the most visited and inspirational gardens in the world and this marvellous book, illustrated with drawings and original photographs throughout, shows us how it was created and how gardeners everywhere can use some of the ideas from both Sarah Raven and Vita Sackville-West. Sissinghurst is a magnificent portrait of a garden and a family.
Автор: Hamid, Mohsin Название: Exit West ISBN: 0241290090 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780241290095 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 8000.00 T Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ. Описание: THE NEW YORK TIMES TOP 5 BESTSELLERTHE TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLERGUARDIAN TOP 10 BESTSELLER2017 most anticipated books pick -- New York Times, Guardian, Daily Telegraph and many more...'Spare, crystalline prose, mixing the real and the surreal and using old fairy-tale magic... An unnervingly dystopian portrait of what might lie down the road' Michiko Kakutani, New York TimesAn extraordinary story of love and hope from the bestselling, Man Booker-shortlisted author of The Reluctant FundamentalistNadia and Saeed are two ordinary young people, attempting to do an extraordinary thing - to fall in love - in a world turned upside down. Theirs will be a love story but also a story about how we live now and how we might live tomorrow, of a world in crisis and two human beings travelling through it.Civil war has come to the city which Nadia and Saeed call home.
Before long they will need to leave their motherland behind - when the streets are no longer useable and the unknown is safer than the known. They will join the great outpouring of people fleeing a collapsing city, hoping against hope, looking for their place in the world . .
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Автор: West Kasie Название: The Distance Between Us ISBN: 0062235656 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780062235657 Издательство: HarperCollins USA Рейтинг: Цена: 6960.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии. Описание: Seventeen-year-old Caymen Meyers learned early that the rich are not to be trusted. And after years of studying them from behind the cash register of her mom`s porcelain doll shop, she has seen nothing to prove otherwise. Enter Xander Spence - he`s tall, handsome, and oozing rich.
Автор: Hamid, Mohsin Название: Exit West ISBN: 0241979064 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780241979068 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 8790.00 T Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ. Описание: This is their story: a love story, but also a story about how we live now and how we might live tomorrow. Saeed and Nadia are falling in love, and their city is falling apart. Here is a world in crisis and two human beings travelling through it.Exit West is a heartfelt and radical act of hope - a novel to restore your faith in humanity and in the power of imagination.
Автор: Hickman Jonathan Название: East of West: The Apocalypse, Year Two ISBN: 1534300597 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781534300590 Издательство: Image Comics Рейтинг: Цена: 47010.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: An oversized prestige collection of the Second Year of The Apocalypse. It collects EAST OF WEST numbered 16-29.
Автор: West, Clare Название: Oxford Bookworms Collection: Crime Never Pays ISBN: 019422693X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780194226936 Издательство: Oxford University Press Рейтинг: Цена: 5290.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии. Описание: Murder: the unlawful, intentional killing of a human being - a terrible crime. But murder stories are always fascinating. Who did it? And how? Or why? And was it murder, or just an unfortunate accident? Who will triumph, the murderer or the detective? This collection contains a wide range of murder stories, from the astute detection of the famous Sherlock Holmes, to the chilling psychology of Ruth Rendell. This collection contains stories by Agatha Christie, Ruth Rendell, Graham Greene, Angela Noel, Dorothy L. Sayers, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Margery Allingham, and Patricia Highsmith.
Автор: Pip Granger Название: Up West: Voices from the Streets of Post-War London ISBN: 0552153753 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780552153751 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 6150.00 T Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ. Описание: Taking readers back to London`s West End in the 1950s, this book describes a vibrant part of town, where working girls swung their keys on street corners, coffee bars throbbed to a rock and roll beat, and the scents and flavours of an expanding world swirled from restaurants and delicatessens.
