A Few Collectors

Author : Pierre Le-Tan
Publisher : New Vessel Press
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2022-04-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781954404052

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A Few Collectors by Pierre Le-Tan Pdf

"Funny and whimsical. There are wonderful asides ... It is also poignant." —The New York Times Beloved Parisian artist Pierre Le-Tan, known for designing New Yorker magazine covers and collaborations with fashion houses, summons up memories of inveterate art collectors in this utterly charming illustrated volume. He evokes fascinating, sometimes troubled figures through an array of intriguing and curious tales. With seventy of his distinctive pen and ink drawings—in vibrant color with meticulous cross-hatching—A Few Collectors opens a window onto the vast or minuscule world created by collectors out of a mix of extravagance and obstinacy. It recounts encounters in Paris, the Côte d’Azur, North Africa, London and New York, where Le-Tan’s subjects have amassed a range of treasures. Some involve famed figures like former Louvre Museum director Pierre Rosenberg. Others are insolvent aristocrats, princes of film and fashion, expatriate dandies, and flat-out obsessive eccentrics. Le-Tan devotes perhaps his finest chapter to himself.

Author : James Dashner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 818 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780553538243

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The Maze Runner by James Dashner Pdf

"With exclusive bonus content"--Front cover.

Author : Joël Pynson,Sébastien Chaulmontet
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 2955562718

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Chronographs for collectors by Joël Pynson,Sébastien Chaulmontet Pdf

Author : Steve Santi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Book collecting
ISBN : 0896890716

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Collecting Little Golden Books by Steve Santi Pdf

Author : Marilyn Easton
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2022-08-09
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780794447182

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Barbie Collector's Guide by Marilyn Easton Pdf

With Barbie, you can be anything! Barbie has had many different careers over the years-from a surgeon to an astronaut-proving that anything is possible for you and Barbie! Packed with countless interesting Barbie-related facts.

Author : Robert Weinberg,Douglas Ellis
Publisher : American Fantasy
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2014-11
Category : Science fiction
ISBN : 0990784606

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The Collectors' Book of Virgil Finlay by Robert Weinberg,Douglas Ellis Pdf

Author : Derville Murphy
Publisher : Poolbeg Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1781993904

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The Art Collector's Daughter: A Stylish Historical Thriller by Derville Murphy Pdf

'An impressive debut, expertly researched and compelling narrated' - Patricia O'Reilly (The First Rose of Tralee)Love, art, and obsession, set between Nazi occupied Paris and rural Ireland. As the Germans advance on Paris in 1940, a young Jewish girl, Sylvie Vasseur, is sent by her father to rural Ireland to live with the Courtney family. He also sends his valuable art collection - including a portrait of Sylvie by the renowned Mateus, Girl on a Swing. Sylvia is seduced by the narcissistic elder son Nicholas Courtney when she is eighteen, but he abandons her when he discovers she is pregnant. To avoid the inevitable social stigma, Sylvie marries his brother Peter. In Dublin, she becomes involved in the art scene, achieving critical acclaim as a painter. But, trapped in a loveless marriage, she continues to be obsessed with Nicholas. Until, unexpectedly, secrets from her father's past emerge, leading her to question everything she once believed. Shortly after, she is found drowned on a Wexford beach. Seventeen years later, Claire Howard, struggling art historian, is hired by the Courtney family to record Sylvie's lifeworks. Fascinated by the artist and working with Sylvie's son Sam, Claire travels between Dublin and Paris, eventually unravelling a labyrinth of deceit and lies that threaten to endanger her life.

Author : Charlotte Gere,Marina Vaizey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1999-11
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : UOM:39015047707867

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Great Women Collectors by Charlotte Gere,Marina Vaizey Pdf

Catherine the Great of Russia acquired art voraciously. Cosmetics magnate Helena Rubinstein collected African and Victorian glass. Couturier Coco Chanel amassed an enormous hoard of French eighteenth-century furniture. This fascinating book offers the first-ever look at these enterprising women -- along with Madame de Pompadour, Empress Josephine, Marjorie Merriweather Post, Gertrude Stein, Mary Cassatt and Peggy Guggenheim, among others -- and tells how they assembled significant and valuable collections of art, silver, jewelry, textiles, ceramics, photography, fossils and much more.

Author : A. Hyatt King
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1963-01-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780521058865

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Some British Collectors of Music C.1600-1960 by A. Hyatt King Pdf

Mr King describes the interests and activities of nearly two hundred music-collectors from the period of c.1600 to 1960.

Author : Kim Neville
Publisher : Atria Books
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781982157586

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The Memory Collectors by Kim Neville Pdf

Perfect for fans of The Scent Keeper and The Keeper of Lost Things, an atmospheric and enchanting debut novel about two women haunted by buried secrets but bound by a shared gift and the power the past holds over our lives. Ev has a mysterious ability, one that she feels is more a curse than a gift. She can feel the emotions people leave behind on objects and believes that most of them need to be handled extremely carefully, and—if at all possible—destroyed. The harmless ones she sells at Vancouver’s Chinatown Night Market to scrape together a living, but even that fills her with trepidation. Meanwhile, in another part of town, Harriet hoards thousands of these treasures and is starting to make her neighbors sick as the overabundance of heightened emotions start seeping through her apartment walls. When the two women meet, Harriet knows that Ev is the only person who can help her make something truly spectacular of her collection. A museum of memory that not only feels warm and inviting but can heal the emotional wounds many people unknowingly carry around. They only know of one other person like them, and they fear the dark effects these objects had on him. Together, they help each other to develop and control their gift, so that what happened to him never happens again. But unbeknownst to them, the same darkness is wrapping itself around another, dragging them down a path that already destroyed Ev’s family once, and threatens to annihilate what little she has left. The Memory Collectors casts the everyday in a new light, speaking volumes to the hold that our past has over us—contained, at times, in seemingly innocuous objects—and uncovering a truth that both women have tried hard to bury with their pasts: not all magpies collect shiny things—sometimes they gather darkness.

Author : Peter H. Reynolds
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2018-01-30
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781338257175

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The Word Collector by Peter H. Reynolds Pdf

From the beloved bestselling creator of The Dot and our own Happy Dreamer comes an inspiring story about the transformative and profound power of words. Some people collect stamps.Some people collect coins.Some people collect art.And Jerome?Jerome collected words . . . In this extraordinary new tale from Peter H. Reynolds, Jerome discovers the magic of the words all around him -- short and sweet words, two-syllable treats, and multisyllable words that sound like little songs. Words that connect, transform, and empower. From the creator of The Dot and Happy Dreamer comes a celebration of finding your own words -- and the impact you can have when you share them with the world.

Author : Paul Yee
Publisher : Tradewind Books
Page : 5 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Children's stories
ISBN : 9781896580258

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The Bone Collector's Son by Paul Yee Pdf

Fourteen-year-old Bing is upset with his father for forcing him to help him dig up the bones of Chinese men and women in order to send them back to China. After they discover a skeleton without a skull, Ba is haunted by the powerful ghost. Later Bing gets a job as houseboy for a wealthy family, where he finds another ghost haunting the family. Bing is finally able to find out what both ghosts want from the living and rescues his father from impending death.

Author : Delphine Minoui
Publisher : Picador
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2022-02-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1529012333

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The Book Collectors of Daraya by Delphine Minoui Pdf

Author : B. A. Shapiro
Publisher : Algonquin Books
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781616208851

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The Collector's Apprentice by B. A. Shapiro Pdf

FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE ART FORGER AND THE MURALIST “Dazzling and seductive, a tour de force, The Collector’s Apprentice is an exhilarating tale of shifting identities, desire, and intrigue set between 1920s Paris and Philadelphia.”—Dawn Tripp, bestselling author of Georgia It’s the summer of 1922, and nineteen-year-old Paulien Mertens finds herself in Paris—broke, disowned, and completely alone. Everyone in Belgium, including her own family, believes she stole millions in a sophisticated con game perpetrated by her then-fiancé, George Everard. To protect herself from the law and the wrath of those who lost everything, she creates a new identity, a Frenchwoman named Vivienne Gregsby, and sets out to recover her father’s art collection, prove her innocence—and exact revenge on George. When the eccentric and wealthy American art collector Edwin Bradley offers Vivienne the perfect job, she is soon caught up in the Parisian world of post-Impressionists and expatriates—including Gertrude Stein and Henri Matisse, with whom Vivienne becomes romantically entwined. As she travels between Paris and Philadelphia, where Bradley is building an art museum, her life becomes even more complicated: George returns with unclear motives . . . and then Vivienne is arrested for Bradley’s murder. B. A. Shapiro has made the historical art thriller her own. In The Collector’s Apprentice, she gives us an unforgettable tale about the lengths to which people will go for their obsession, whether it be art, money, love, or vengeance.

Author : Philipp Blom
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2004-06-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781468302189

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To Have and to Hold by Philipp Blom Pdf

From amassing sacred relics to collecting celebrity memorabilia, the impulse to hoard has gripped humankind throughout the centuries. But what is it that drives people to possess objects that have no conceivable use? To Have and To Hold is a captivating tour of collectors and their treasures from medieval times to the present, from a cabinet containing unicorn horns and a Tsar's collection of teeth to the macabre art of embalmer Dr. Frederick Ruysch, the fabled castle of William Randolph Hearst, and the truly preoccupied men who stockpile food wrappers and plastic cups. An engrossing story of the collector as bridegroom, deliriously, obsessively happy, wed to his possessions, till death do us part.