Mini Graphics: Maximum Impact in a Mini Format
Wang Shaoqiang (ed); Helen Du (ed); Angel Dominguez (trans); Marie-Pierre Teuler (trans)
Published by Promopress, Barcelona, Spain, 2010
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Goulds Book Arcade, Sydney, Newtown, Sydney, NSW, AustraliaGoulds Book Arcade, Sydney
AbeBooks seller since April 28, 2003
Condition: Used - Very good
US$ 26.93
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The dust jacket is plastic, and has cracked, torn and chipped with age. The page edges are a bit tanned and foxed. 392 pages. Books listed here are not stored at the shop. Please contact us if you want to pick up a book from Newtown.
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- Title
- Mini Graphics: Maximum Impact in a Mini Format
- Author
- Wang Shaoqiang (ed); Helen Du (ed); Angel Dominguez (trans); Marie-Pierre Teuler (trans)
- Publisher
- Promopress, Barcelona, Spain
- Publication year
- 2010
- Condition
- Very Good
- Dust jacket
- Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0007455283
- ISBN 13
- 9780007455287
- Seller catalogs
- Art, Design, Fashion & Sculpture - World
Who knows what’s hidden from view? Locked away in cabinets, secure storage and aircraft hangars.
Most of a museum’s collection never gets seen. It sits in the quiet dark of an archive waiting for a treasure hunter or obsessive researcher to root out its very existence. Under the streets of Manhattan priceless books are shelved; brick outbuildings in London’s East End house drawers of Victorian embroidery remembering foundlings long ago dead; body bags in Washington clothe space suits covered in real moon dust and in an unvisited aircraft hangar sits Auguste Piccard’s extraordinary invention, the balloon gondola…
This and many other extraordinary inventions, legacies, discoveries and artefacts have been visited and curated by Molly Oldfield into a Secret Museum. Rich in atmosphere and anecdote, suffused with the surprising emotion of a personal discovery, but grounded in fascinating factual detail, this is a unique and beautifully illustrated book.
The Secret Museum reveals sixty unknown artefacts and stories from all five continents, from Rome to Rio and Boston to Berlin. And like the very best mornings spent at a museum it promises to be idiosyncratic, surprising and enormously good fun.
The Artefacts in the book include: An original Gutenberg Bible printed on vellum, Harrison Schmitt’s Space Suit, A piece of Newton’s Apple Tree, Van Gogh’s Sketchbooks, The original drawings of Wimbledon’s Centre Court, Dickens’ letter opener,Three pieces of Mars, and much more…
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About the Author
Molly Oldfield, who considers herself a museumphile, has been a writer and researcher for the landmark BBC1 program QI (Quite Interesting), presented by Stephen Fry. She writes a weekly QI column in the Saturday Telegraph and researches QI's sister Radio 4 program, The Museum of Curiosity.
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Goulds Book Arcade, Sydney
Newtown, Sydney, NSW, Australia
AbeBooks seller since April 28, 2003
Shipping rates from Australia to U.S.A.
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Large shop within 4 miles of Sydney Opera House and close to Sydney University. First established in Sydney in 1967. Have remainders bought over those years, many ageing like good wine. We have many second hand books in all categories. Find us on Google Maps. Enter "Goulds Books Australia". We are at 536 King St, Newtown.
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Goulds Book Arcade, Sydney
NSW, Australia
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