Picture Books & Art Books
Stephen T. Johnson, Alphabet City (Penguin/Viking, 1995, 32pp hc $14.99).
You have to see it to understand why it's so fine. Letters found in
ordinary objects found in a city.
Arthur Rackham's Book of Pictures (Avanel, 1974, rep. of 1913 ed., 36pp hc;
see Amazon.com's Out of Print Search Service). Either you know
Rackham's work or you don't. This reprint came from the heyday of
Rackhamania in the late sixties and early seventies.
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