Monday, November 28, 2011

Tuesday Tomorrow

Christmas at Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
Published by: Penguin
Publication Date: November 29th, 2011
Format: Paperback, 320 Pages
To Buy

The official patter:
"What better place to spend the holidays than Cold Comfort Farm?

Available for the first time since its original publication more than fifty years ago, Christmas at Cold Comfort Farm is a charming collection whose hilarious title story features Christmas dinner with the Starkadders before Flora's arrival. With Adam playing Santa while draped in Mrs. Starkadders's shawls, the family shares their traditional "Christmas pudding"-a mélange containing random objects of doom foretelling the coming year: a coffin nail for death, a bad sixpence for financial ruin, and a menthol cone to indicate that the lucky recipient will go "blind wi' headache." These lively tales will delight anyone who loves Stella Gibbons and her signature wit."

For Cold Comfort Farm fanatics, this is the Holy Grail. Stella Gibbons wrote two followups to her classics, Cold Comfort Farm: Conferance and Cold Comfort Farm and Christmas at Cold Comfort Farm. If you're lucky, like me, you found a copy of Conferance at Cold Comfort Farm for under $100 at some time in your life. But Christmas... ah, I' don't know if I've ever seen one below $500, most ranging aroun $1000... so imagin my joy that FINALLY I'll be able to read it! (Conferance at Cold Comfort Farm has also been recently re-released in England).

Spring Muslin by Georgette Heyer
Published by: SourceBooks
Publication Date: November 29th, 2011
Format: Paperback, 320 Pages
To Buy

The official patter:
"Sir Gareth Ludlow is just about ready to settle for marriage with Lady Hester, a plain woman who falls below his standards (according to his sister). Despite her protests, however, Gareth sets out to propose marriage.

Along the way, he encounters young Amanda wandering unattended. Honor-bound to restore her to her family, the gallant Sir Ludlow finds he has more than he bargained for with his young charge and her runaway imagination."

The week for reprints is apparently upon us. I love the gorgeous SourceBooks editions of Georgette Heyer's novels, so pretty, must have them all.

Vintage Type and Graphics by Steve Heller and Louise Fili
Published by: Allworth Press
Publication Date: November 29th, 2011
Format: Hardcover, 212 Pages
To Buy

The official patter:
""Type lovers and history buffs alike will enjoy this gallery of vintage typefaces, ornaments, letterheads and trademarks."—ID Magazine

Exquisite graphic design artifacts comprise this unusual collection culled from the pages of type and typography books dating from 1896 to 1936. Design professionals, students and teachers of graphic design, and anyone with an interest in vintage design will be delighted to find rare, never-before-reprinted type specimens, vintage layouts, logos, and decorations that will serve as an inspiration and resource for practicing and aspiring graphic designers. 400 black-and-white illustrations."

Not that I'm TRYING to give people ideas for what to get me for Christmas... just that this is a very lovely new Steven Heller book...

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