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Using Red Thread, Rima Day Intertwines History, Nature, and Human Experience in Striking Embroideries

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Bell’s Books in Palo Alto is such a beautiful old bookstore with such an incredible selection of books.

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This kills me, it really does.

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Oldie, but still goodie. (at Tacoma, Washington) https://www.instagram.com/p/CkrZS3FvLOn/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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A cartoon from my new book, REVENGE OF THE LIBRARIANS which is available now in English, French and Spanish from good bookshops. 

Details at tomgauld.com

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Please not again.

VOTE!

image from White Collar: A Novel in Linocuts by Giacomo Patri. From the 1975 edition published by Celestial Arts. Originally published in 1940.

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Some ideas for halloween costumes from my new book REVENGE OF THE LIBRARIANS. Details at tomgauld.com

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In the library. Photo by Vsevolod Tarasevich (Moscow, 1963).

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Ikko Tanaka, Japanese Books Design 1946-1995, Ginza Graphic Gallery, GGG, Tokyo, DNP Foundation for Cultural Promotion, Tokyo, 1995 [Exhibition: February 6-28, 1995] [Museum für Gestaltung Zürich]

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The little free libraries aren’t so little anymore! Located in Downtown Boston, this library, where anyone is welcome to take or leave a book, might be the biggest “little” library we’ve ever seen.

Share bookish love and inspire a reader. 🤓📚📖

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Edward Hopper - Hotel Lobby, 1943

from: Edward Hopper and the American Imagination

by Deborah Lyons and Adam D. Weinberg . Published by Whitney Museum and W.W. Norton, 1995.

Includes contributions from Paul Auster, Tess Gallagher, John Hollander, Thom Gunn among others.

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from:

War Is Only Half The Story: The Aftermath Project, Volume 1

War Is Only Half The Story: The Aftermath Project, Volume 1

by Jim Goldberg; Wolf Bowig; Andrew Stanbridge; Asim Rafiqui and Paula Luttringer. Published by Aperture/Mets & Schilt, New York, 2008. First edition. Softcover, pictorial wraps. Quarto. 127pp. profusely illustrated. Fine. Founded by photographer and writer Sara Terry, the nonprofit Aftermath Project documents the long-term repercussions of conflict that are so often neglected by the popular media.

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Marc Chagall

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Chagall by Werner Schmalenbach. Published by Crown Publishers, New York, 1956.

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Salman Toor (Pakistani, 1983), Immigrant Gathering, 2016. Oil on canvas, 122 x 81.5 cm.

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Roaming in a Baroque Library

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from The Illustrations of George Barbier

Published by Dover, New York, 1977. First edition