Gifts for readers who own a library of curios
A round up of gift books and art references for the well supplied reader. Highlights include All Aboard! The Story of Joshua Lionel Cowen and His Lionel Train Company, The L L Bean Guide to the Outdoors, The Modelmaker's Hand Book, visual guides from Dorling Kindersley, Muppet Show Making, a visual glossary What's What, and photo collections by Eisenstaedt and Paris-Magnum. Also two art reference sets The Larousse Dictionary of Painters and Random House Library of Painting and Sculpture with many volumes and prices noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joshua Lionel Cowen
Lionel Train Company
Ron Hollander
Larousse
Aachen
Hans von
Zurbaran
Francisco de
Random House Library of Painting and Sculpture
David Piper
Random House
L.L. Bean
Bill Riviene
Ms. Brown
Thomas Wolfe
Bauhaus
OUR House
Farrar, Straus and Girioux
Wolfe
Hardy
Jane Fonda
Simon & Schuster
Richard Simmon
Holiday book buying for every reader in the family
Bookstore managers name top sellers across fiction and biographies from Irving and Updike to McCullough and King. They highlight humor novels, light verse, and travel cookbooks, with advice to tailor gifts to readers, from architecture critiques to aerobic guides and dictionaries.
Also Mentioned on This Page
Christopher Lehmannhaupt
N.Y
Bill Riviere
Bruce Willard
J. Nicoletti
Albert Jackson
David Day
Dorling Kindersley Ltd
Karl Gamma
Knopf
Christopher Finch
Muppet Press- Knopf
Reginald Bragonier Jr
David Fisher
Hammond
Ejisenstaedt
Germany
Abrams
Paris-Magnum
Irwin Shaw
Inge Morath
Aperture
City of Light
Steven Heller
A&w
R. O. Blechman
Tomi Ungerer
Booth
Feiffer
Gorey
Karen
le Tan
Levine
Osborn
Sempe
Sorel
Mary Gilliat
Michael Dunne
Pantheon
Beken
Cowes
John Malcolm Brinnin
Congdon & Lattes
Louis Vuitton
Ms. Lebowitz
Peter DeVries
Little, Brown and Company
Shela Silverstein
Harper and Row
Bill
Sour Face Ann
New Hampshire
E.P. Dutton
Steven King
the Viking Press
Clive Cussler
Bantam Books
James Herriot
St. Martin’s Press
Yorkshire
England
Thorn Birds
Colleen McCullough
Miss Raglow
John Updike
Run
Toyota
Clowns OF God
William Morrow
Morris West
Addic
Robert Stone
Elizabeth Taylor
Kitty Kelley
Jackie Oh
Elvis
McGraw-Hill
Albert Goldman
George Harrison
Waldo Emerson
Viking
Gay Wilson Allen
Better Homes and Gardens
Meredith
Bernard Clayton Jr
Madhur Jaffrey
India
Japan
China
New American Library
Brown
Oxford
Don Hall
Andy Rooney
Atheneum
Reasoner
Bartlett
Michener
Taos
New Mexico
Capa Atitrar
Espabelae
Ruthe Hughes
Sunflower Travel
Mass
Lawrence
Space Limited
KAW Valley Dance Theater
Lawrence Symphony Presents
Atcracker
Act One, Ltd
Kief’s
Lawrence School of Ballet
Raney Drugstores
National Endowment For the Arts
The
Kansas Arts Commission
Southern Hills Shopping
Southern Hills
Dard & Ousdahl
University of Kansas School of Fine Arts
University Symphony Orchestra
the Arts
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