Sunday Book Scan: Caroline di Bulan

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Title: Caroline di Bulan (Caroline sur La lune) 

Author: Pierre Probst 

Publisher: Aya Media Pustaka/ Hachette 

Publish Date: Jakarta, 1993

Sunday Book Scan: Faust

Among the black and white illustrators Harry Clarke is not as well known as Aubrey Beardsley. Of course Beardsley is the man who brought the whole shebang of darkness in Art Nouveau, but Harry Clarke's stylization is more to my liking. At a glimpse there's no discernible difference between Aubrey's work and Clarke. Look closely and you will see how Clarke deviate from Beardsley in regard on how he chose to portray his subjects. Clarke tends to draw characters with elongated body parts, huge eyes  and long lashes, while Beardsley drew somewhat  simplified rounded  human forms reminiscing characters from Japanese ukiyoe. At that I conclude, what Beardsley has taken Clarke gave back. Clarke's influences are traceable in 70s-80s Shojo Manga like the Rose of Versailles and Garasu no Kamen , and Japanese promising artists such as  Aya Kato (whose early works somehow, I suspect, influenced Camille Rose Garcia's recent works) and Takato Yamamoto. Isn't it great to know how much art inspires and evolves?

Enough with the name throws, anyway, I found this book in the corner of a used book section, as my other treasures this too is someone's garbage. Click pic to enlarge and enjoy its glory!

Title: Faust

Author: Johann Wolfgang van Goethe

Translation: John Anster

Illustration: Harry Clarke

Publisher: Harrap

Publish Date: London, 1985

ISBN: 0 245 54312 0

Sunday Book Scan: Tini Berkemah

Flaunting my Martine book find! Yay! Bought together with the previous scanned-book. Have you tried the my Make Me Martine Generator? No?Well, why not go here now and have a blast!

Title: Tini Berkemah (Martine fait du camping)

Author: Gijs Haag

Illustrator: Marcel Marlier

Publisher: PT Gramedia

Publish Date: Jakarta, 1985

Sunday Book Scan: The World We Live In

I found this book in Cikapundung on my recent trip to Bandung, and few other treasures (including two Tini books, Yayyy!!!). Haven't read it yet but the colors are just amazing, hope you'll enjoy it as much as I do. As usual don't forget to click each pic to enlarge.

Title: The World We Live In, Special Edition for Young Readers

Author: Editorial staff of LIFE and Lincoln Barnett, text especially adapted by Jane Werner Watson

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Publish Date: New York, 1956

Sunday Book Scan : Alberto Vargas

First I have a confession to make. I have pictures of nude girls in my computer, lots of them. It's not jerking off materials, mind you, I simply adore the naked bodies of the female of the species. Most of the pics are the va va  voom pin-ups from the 50s where Alberto Vargas reigned supreme. 

I've been coveting this book since my first day working at aksara. Then before I could gather the money needed to buy it, the one and only copy of the book has vanished from the displaying shelf. Somebody had bought them I thought, even if the book was super-pricey, I really think it's worth every penny. But I was wrong. Imagine my happiness to find the book years later in a discount shelf for  almost a third of the original price! 

As always, click  pic to enlarge.

Title: Alberto Vargas; Works from the Max Vargas Collection

Author: Reid Stewart Austin

Publisher: Bulfinch Press

Publish Date: New York, 2006

ISBN: 0 821 25792 7

Sunday Book Scan: A Century of Murderers

Now, we will venture into the darker side of life, this one is dedicated for the CSI agent-wannabes within us. This book recorded the infamous homicides from early 1800s to, well 1900s including the Body Snatching duo Burke and Hare, and Dr. Neill Cream notoriously known as the Lambeth Poisoner  . The crimes were described briefly, leaving much of its gruesome details, but the book sure gave plenty of pictures of caricatures, police sketches, newspaper clippings, and photos that is more than enough to give you the ideas of what went on back then. I found, some of the illustrations were quite beautiful, proving once again that the act of destruction could inspire an act of creation.

Title: A Century of Murderers

Author: Edward Lustgarten

Publisher: a PictureFile edition by  Eyre Methuen Ltd.

Publish Date: London, 1975

ISBN: 0 413 3303 3

the creepy looking Kate Webster

Sunday Book Scan

Since the last two weeks I haven't been able to post any book scans, this sunday I'd make it up by posting two books in a row. Enjoy!

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Title: Botanical Illustrations

Author: William Wheeler

Publisher: L'Aventurine

Publish Date: Paris, 2003

ISBN: 2914199333

Sunday Book Scan: The Magic of Rhymes

Front Cover (click  to enlarge)

Book Title : The Magic of Rhymes

Compilation : Lucy Kincaid 

Illustration : Eric Kincaid 

Publisher : Brimax Book

ISBN : 09044 94 276

Publish Date : Cambridge, 1976

The content are pretty common, it's a nursery rhyme book, I expect as much. However the illustrations are just wonderfully whimsical, I cannot help to nurture a  growing fondness each time I open this very book. 

Sunday Book Scan

I’m starting a new weekly posting, it will be blogged *hopefully* every Sunday.  I pretty much understand how tricky it is to find FREE good hi-res images when you need one.  I have been using Googled  images for quite a while and it’s about time I return all that  favors back.  For now let’s just call it, the Sunday Book Scans, till I could came up with a catchier phrase.  

I decide to start this book-scan thing with the oldest volume in the vault.  Unless you’re a vampire, dear reader, this book is older than the age of two perhaps even three of us combine.  Given to me by one of dearest friend, it has become one of my most treasured possession and now I am sharing its beauty with you.

Book Title : Meteors, Aerolites, Storms, and Atmospheric Phenomena

Translation : William Lackland (from the French of Zurcher and Margolle)

Illustration  : Lebreton (23 fine woodcuts)

Publisher    : Scribner, Armstrong, & Co

Publish Date       : New York, 1874

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