Showing posts with label Books. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Books. Show all posts

Monday, July 11, 2011

abécéderia, but really this time.

Blexbolex, whose Saisons made the weather fun again (too soon?), is also responsible for the  intriguing (as in intrigue) abécéderium (DESTINATION) ABÉCÉDERIA. Via LCS:

"Abecederia is the tale of two bank robbers, Leon and Bernard Blanchet, and their decent into madness in the colony of Abecederia and its outskirts, Katagonia.  While we are still in the early letters of the alphabet, Katagonia seems to be a veritable paradise, but soon it becomes a hell, which doesn’t end until the two scoundrels reach the letter Z, and together with the reader they wade through 'a nightmare with hints of dehumanization, to pseudo-scientific experiments performed on humans, torture, death”, as Papercuts put it.'"

On the matter of typos, I would like to note that one's descent into madness can, on occasion, be a quite decent affair.

Saturday, July 9, 2011

Publishers' Bindings Online, 1815-1930

It does not get much better than this.
 The site is organized into various galleries, including an Artistic Gallery (where the above Art Deco image of Detroit is located), a Literary Gallery, and my personal favorite, the Historical Gallery. The galleries each have an organizing essay, and each book in the gallery has extensive notes as well as high quality photos of the bindings.

Hours will be spent.