2012 Barnes & Noble Hardcover Desk Diary

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The 2012 edition in the popular and long-running Barnes & Noble Desk Diary series showcases the golden age of American book cover design. Renowned rare-book archivist and curator Richard Minsky provides dozens of extravagantly colored and evocatively designed examples dating from 1882 to 1915, with brief descriptive text. Minsky's introduction thoughtfully discusses the place these beautiful, often avant-garde works held at the intersection of the art and literary worlds.

This handsome, richly illustrated, hardcover planner comes in a beautifully designed gift box and provides a convenient weekly agenda format, ...

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Overview

The 2012 edition in the popular and long-running Barnes & Noble Desk Diary series showcases the golden age of American book cover design. Renowned rare-book archivist and curator Richard Minsky provides dozens of extravagantly colored and evocatively designed examples dating from 1882 to 1915, with brief descriptive text. Minsky's introduction thoughtfully discusses the place these beautiful, often avant-garde works held at the intersection of the art and literary worlds.

This handsome, richly illustrated, hardcover planner comes in a beautifully designed gift box and provides a convenient weekly agenda format, monthly calendar grids, and a year of captivating literary art in a durable, quality binding. Also included is a quiz on famous works of literature, lists of prize-winning books and authors, an 8-page supplement of classic world maps, and other special features.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781435133495
  • Publisher: Barnes & Noble
  • Publication date: 8/20/2011
  • Sales rank: 25,089
  • Product dimensions: 11.02 (w) x 8.78 (h) x 1.03 (d)

Meet the Author

Richard Minsky operates the Center for Book Arts in Manhattan, the first not-for-profit organization in America exclusively dedicated to promoting and advancing the art of the book with exhibitions, publications, classes, and workshops.

Minsky's work has been widely shown, including a twenty-five-year retrospective presented by HarperCollins Publishers. The Richard Minsky Archive is at Yale University's Haas Arts Library, which honored him in 2010 with an exhibition titled Material Meets Metaphor: A Half Century of Book Art by Richard Minsky. His work is in many public and private collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.

He produced a series of exhibitions of American Decorated Publishers' Bindings, 1872-1929, publishing limited-edition catalogs in 2006, 2009, and 2010 that documented 1,100 examples. In 2010 George Braziller, Inc., issued a trade edition of selections from these catalogs titled The Art of American Book Covers, 1875-1930, and in 2011 Braziller published The Book Art of Richard Minsky.

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  • Posted January 16, 2012

    Highly recommend

    I love this planner. I support a group of 12 people and use this planner for planning trips and conferences.

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