Nick Bantock, Author . Chronicle $19.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-8118-2752-2
Reading Bantock's latest lavishly illustrated novel, the first in his new Morning Star
trilogy and the continuation of the saga of Griffin and Sabine, is like going on a delightful treasure hunt. Here an exotic photograph tucked in an...
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Nick Bantock, Author . Chronicle $19.95 (56p) ISBN 978-0-8118-3140-6
It's been 11 years since Bantock first introduced the eponymous stars of Griffin & Sabine, the beautiful and unusual novel in which the reader became a voyeuristic third party to the lush correspondence between London postcard designer...
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Nick Bantock, Author . Chronicle $19.95 (56p) ISBN 978-0-8118-3199-4
In this sixth and final installment in his popular Griffin & Sabine saga (divided into two trilogies), writer and illustrator Bantock creates another jewel box of a book, rife with intrigue, legend and mystery. The exquisitely designed text...
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Nick Bantock, Author . Chronicle $19.95 (115p) ISBN 978-0-8118-4305-8
Collage of paper ephemera—photographs, postcards, ads, newspapers, stamps, money, packaging materials, invoices, books and sheet music—is an artistic technique at least as old as modernism, with Picasso and Braque incorporating various...
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Nick Bantock, Author Chronicle Books $19.95 (48p) ISBN 978-0-8118-0180-5
Devotees of Bantock's enigmatic bestseller, Griffin & Sabine , won't be disappointed by this equally intriguing and perplexing--and equally gorgeous--sequel. London artist Griffin Moss and islander Sabine Strohem, who have never met face-to-face or...
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Nick Bantock, Author Chronicle Books $17.95 (48p) ISBN 978-0-8118-0298-7
Bantock's bewitching trilogy, begun with Griffin & Sabine and Sabine's Notebook , ends with this characteristically curious installment. Once again, Bantock employs his singular brand of visual sorcery to create postcards, stamps and letters that...
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Nick Bantock, Author Chronicle Books $22.95 (132p) ISBN 978-0-8118-1140-8
The subtitle of this oversized, lavishly illustrated volume confirms that we are once again in the kind of quasi-mythical kingdom that provided the setting for writer and illustrator Bantok's bestselling Griffin and Sabine series. Phrased thusly: ""A
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Nick Bantock, Author HarperCollins Publishers $25 (113p) ISBN 978-0-06-757546-8
The author/artist of Griffin and Sabine, The Venetian's Wife and The Forgetting Room creates another lavishly illustrated fantasia, this time drawing up the fictional catalogue of a museum located in Purgatory. Envisioning that shadowy middle...
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Nick Bantock, Author HarperAudio $22 (112p) ISBN 978-0-00-225176-1
Bantock's (Griffin and Sabine) mastery of the illustrated fable wears thin in this latest effort. Here, the illustrations, though sumptuously reproduced, are darkly surreal and not especially inviting. Moreover, they are not as integral to the plot...
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Nick Bantock. Chronicle, $24.95 (60p) ISBN 978-1-4521-5125-0
In this final, stunning volume of the Griffin & Sabine saga, author and artist Bantock completes the inspiring story of two lovers who developed an epistolary relationship without ever meeting in the flesh. Each page of the book presents an...
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Nick Bantock, Author, Chronicle Books, Author Chronicle Books $16.95 (1p) ISBN 978-0-8118-0700-5
Bantock's (Griffin & Sabine) light verse is enhanced by his color illustrations in this small, fetching book. As an example, look at his painting of a befanged, richly chestnut-colored dog, muzzle soft and thick with wrinkles; the accompanying poem...
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Nick Bantock, Author, Nick Bantock, Illustrator Chronicle Books $19.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-87701-788-2
This singular, magical volume invites readers to examine handmade postcards and open colorful envelopes as they eavesdrop on lonely London card-designer Griffin Moss and mysterious South Pacific islander Sabine Strohem. Sabine introduces herself to...
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Nick Bantock, Author, Stacie Strong, Author, Nick Bantock, Illustrator Hyperion Books $14.95 (15p) ISBN 978-1-56282-219-4
In its attempt to sandwich a wide variety of information within 16 pages of pop-up illustrations, this book's identity is lost in a schizophrenic battle. Demonstrative and somewhat entertaining pop-ups depict a side-to-side waddling turtle, a...
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Nick Bantock. Tachyon, $21.95 (216p) ISBN 978-1-61696-407-8
Bantock (Griffin and Sabine) offers a whimsical collection doubling as a literary puzzle. A color illustration accompanies each of the one-page tales or “drabbles,” beginning with the surreal title story about a woman trying on lingerie in a...
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