Category: New Books

New Books


Feb
2010

New Titles Posted, Feb 2010 (1st)

categories: New Books

The Children of Hurin

The Children of Hurin by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac
Hatrack River by Orson Scott Card (Hardbound)
The Waves by Virginia Woolf
100 Ghastly Little Ghost Stories (Hardbound)
First Meetings by Orson Scott Card (Ender’s Game, HB)
Witpunk (Silverberg, Ford, Morrow, Cadigan)
The Prestige by Christopher Priest (non-movie cover)
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror (2003, Vol. 14)
Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer (RARE Advance Reading Copy)
The Island of the Day Before by Umberto Eco
His Dark Materials Vol. 1-3 Set, by Philip Pullman
The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield (Hardbound)
The Almost Moon by Alice Sebold (Advance Reading Copy)
The Gunter Grass Reader
Slowness by Milan Kundera (Hardbound)
The Gryphon by Nick Bantock (Hardbound)
The Golden Mean by Nick Bantock (Hardbound)
Sixty Poems by Charles Simic
Walking the Black Cat: Poems by Charles Simic
Selected Poems by T.S. Eliot
The Encyclopedia of Ignorance (Duncan/Weston-Smith)
Being and Nothingness by Jean-Paul Sartre
Sex in History by Reay Tannahill
Cocaine by Dominic Streatfeild
Quickies: Fascinating Facts About the Facts of Life (Sex)
The Mammoth Book of The History of Murder by Colin Wilson

Being and Nothingness

Back in Stock:

Blindness by Jose Saramago (Movie Cover)
Seeing by Jose Saramago
Atonement by Ian McEwan
Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli
The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler
Innocent Erendira and other stories by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Stranger by Albert Camus
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
East of Eden by John Steinbeck -Centennial Edition
Chasing Cezanne by Peter Mayle
High Fidelity by Nick Hornby (Movie Cover)
Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel (Hardbound)
Chocolat by Joanne Harris (Movie Cover)
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
The Other Woman by Jane Green
The Dim Sum of All Things by Kim Wong Keltner
Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain
Paris to the Moon by Adam Gopnik
Naked Pictures of Famous People by Jon Stewart (Daily Show)
The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning & Importance of Fairy Tales by Bruno
Bettelheim
Bella Tuscany by Frances Mayes (Under The Tuscan Sun)
Are You Really Going to Eat That? Reflections of a Culinary Thrill Seeker
A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2002 (Dave Eggers)

Happy Shopping!

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Jan
2010

Raw Images (Books – 01/26/10)

categories: New Books

These books are fresh out of the box and being prepared for processing/posting. They are not yet posted on the www.avalon.ph website.

Some overstock, some used and some already reserved. Just click on any of the image below to enlarge. For inquiries please send message to: support (at) avalon.ph. Thank you very much!


Oct
2009

Most Interesting Book in stock lately…

categories: General, New Books

pictoplasma

UPDATE: SOLD!

PICTOPLASMA: The Character Encyclopaedia

by: Pictoplasma Publishing, Berlin

date: November 2006
editor: Peter Thaler, Lars Denicke

pages: 396
size: 18.4 x 22.3 cm / 7.24 x 8.78 in
features: full colour, special hardcover

ISBN: 3-9810458-3-1

Avalon.ph Price: Php3,500.00

Sold out from the publisher! Probably your only chance to get a copy locally, exclusive on Avalon.ph.

Condition: Some light scratches on cover (visible on image), very good condition, unread copy. Only opened (carefully) for images.

From Pictoplasma Publishing website:

“With this long awaited follow-up publication Pictoplasma delivers an in-depth exploration of the latest tendencies in current character design and art, spanning from drawing, design and painting to its use in installations and sculpture.

Pictoplasma not only creates the world’s first Encyclopaedia of figurative design – by cataloguing the characters as independent life-forms of their own right, the compilation enables to examine similarities and permutations of globally recurring motifs and styles.

Building on the graphical roots of today’s character culture, the selection examines the essential qualities that enable these reduced character depictions to hit home with the universal power of anthropomorphic appeal.

By sorting, clustering, cross-referencing and inter-linking the creations of a disparate scene of artists, the encyclopaedia creates a unique cartography of the latest generations populating the character universe.

The 396-page volume features fresh and surprising work by over 250 artists, designers and newcomers, including Ana Bagayan, Friends With You, Fons Schiedon, eBoy, Akinori Oishi, Koralie, Doma, Gary Baseman, Tim Biskup, Klaus Haapaniemi, Eun-Ha Paek, Nicholas Deakin, Shoboshobo, Gary Taxali and many, many more…”