 NICK
BANTOCK
URGENT
2nd CLASS
MORNING
STAR
ALEXANDRIA
THE GRYPHON
ARTFUL
DODGER
THE
MUSEUM
AT PURGATORY
GRIFFIN
& SABINE
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Excellent Gift Set
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The
Griffin & Sabine Trilogy Boxed
Set: Griffin & Sabine/Sabine's
Notebook / The Golden Mean [BOX
SET] (Hardcover)
Few books are more romantic than this trilogy, nor more surreal. Griffin Moss is a rather doleful, lonesome, gaunt, and haunted postcard designer in London. Sabine Strohem is an illustrator of stamps living on an island in the South Pacific. One day Griffin gets an extraordinary letter from Sabine revealing that she knows all kinds of things about his life and work--somehow, she can share his soul from afar. They start exchanging love letters, yet it remains an open question whether Griffin and Sabine are two hearts that mystically beat as one, or simply illusory. "You're a figment of my imagination," Griffin accuses Sabine. "You cannot turn me into a phantom because you are frightened," Sabine replies. Phantom or soul mate, Sabine is pursued across the globe by Griffin in an increasingly impassioned fashion, and the mysteries deepen.
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Exquisite Box Set
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The
Morning Star 3-Volume Boxed Set
[BOX SET] (Hardcover)
The Griffin & Sabine saga has sold over 3 million copies worldwide, led to 12 international editions, and spent over 100 weeks on the New York Times best-seller list. Both longtime fans and new readers will be thrilled to see the series in an exquisite boxed edition. The Morning Star trilogy (The Gryphon, Alexandria, and The Morning Star) is now available in a stunning red slipcase-a handsome complement to the Griffin & Sabine 3-Volume Boxed Set. A fantastic gift for lovers of art, mystery, and romance, here is an essential purchase for both new and tried-and-true Nick Bantock fans everywhere.
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Windflower
Chronicle Books, 2006
Nick's new 216 page novel is now in the bookstores. Windflower is a
stunning tale of a vagabond Capolan dancer and her sensual entanglement
with four unworldly men.
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Urgent 2nd
Class
Chronicle Books, 2004
An inspirational handbook for
making art by embellishing and
tampering with old documents,
maps, postcards, scraps,
envelopes, and other ephemera.
Shows how to alchemically
transform the unexpected into
your own idiosyncratic art.
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The Morning Star
Chronicle Books, 2003
The
mystery that began with a single
enigmatic postcard reaches its
dramatic conclusion in The
Morning Star. The final
destination on a journey across
fabled landscapes and the
uncertain terrain of the human
heart.
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Alexandria
Chronicle Books, 2002
Alexandria
will continue to delight the 3
million readers who fell in love
with the epistolary romance of
Griffin & Sabine. Awash
with gorgeous artwork, the
mystery of Griffin Moss and
Sabine Strohem now entwines
Matthew Sedon, an archaeologist
steeped in Egyptian antiquity,
and Isabella de Reims, a student
in Paris whose vision holds the
key to a new reality.
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The
Gryphon
Chronicle Books, 2001
At last, best-selling author
Nick Bantock brings us a new
volume in the Griffin &
Sabine story - a tale rich
in the artistry, mystery, and
surprise that makes the original
saga so beloved. As the
remarkable fates of Griffin and
Sabine are gradually revealed,
we are introduced to Matthew and
Isabella, long-distance lovers
who find themselves entwined not
only in each other's lives, but
also in a perilous and alluring
intrigue.
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Griffin &
Sabine
Chronicle Books, 1991
This is the book that started
the Nick Bantock obsession. The
story is told through the
strange and intriguing
correspondence of Griffin and
Sabine. Since each letter must
be pulled from its own envelope,
the reader has the delightful,
forbidden sensation of reading
someone else's mail. Griffin
& Sabine is like no other
illustrated novel, appealing to
the poet and artist in everyone.
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Sabine's
Notebook
Chronicle Books, 1992
For the thousands who finished
Griffin & Sabine and
asked, "What happened next?,"
came this second volume. Told in
the same format as its
predessor, Sabine's Notebook
is filled with her delicately
macabre drawings and notations,
the notebook adds a darker
element of visual intrigue to
their complex and mysterious
world.
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The Golden
Mean
Chronicle Books, 1993
In this final volume of the
best-selling trilogy the mystery
of the two artists deepens and
their questions grow more
urgent. New obstacles (including
a sinister intruder) test the
tenacity of their passion, and
in each letter or postcard,
painting and prose are even more
richly intertwined.
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The
Griffin & Sabine Trilogy
Chronicle Books, 1994
With over three million copies
in print, Nick Bantock's trilogy
of romantic intrigue continues
to capture the hearts and
imaginations of readers
everywhere. Here you will find
Griffin & Sabine,
Sabine's Notebook, and
The Golden Mean in an
attactive boxed set.
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The
Egyptian Jukebox
Viking, 1993
A conundrum, a cabinet of
curiosity, a gathering of short
stories, and a metaphysical
puzzle, The Egyptian Jukebox
is many things. But mostly it is
a journey into the mind of
Hamilton Hasp, a Howard Hughsian
eccentric, whose world was a
maze of visual mind-games.
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to hear Nick read 3 poems from
the book.
Averse to Beasts
Chronicle Books, 1994
More Gnash and less Ogden, these
poems and their illustrations
are also accompanied by a tape,
in which Nick recites all 23 of
the verses to an audience of
wild animals. Guffaw all you
will, forget not that the
animals will get the last
laugh!
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The
Venetian's Wife
Chronicle Books, 1996
The Venetian's Wife is
part love story, part mystery,
and part ghostly tale—and an
altogether bewitching brew of
sensuality and lost treasures.
Nick Bantock has conjured up a
richly illustrated tale of a
relentless quest, an amorous
legacy, and the resonating power
of art—a lush, romantic
adventure of the soul that
tantalizes the reader to the
last line.
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Paris Out
of Hand
Chronicle Books, 1996
From the collaboration of Nick
Bantock, Karen Elizabeth Gordon,
and Barbara Hodgson comes an
invitation to a strangely
illuminated City of Light,
Paris Out of Hand. This
seductively beautiful replica of
a 19th-century travel
book—replete with illustrations
of sights you will never see and
maps that may plummet you into a
different era—guides readers
through the Paris that is, that
might be, and that never was.
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The
Forgetting Room
Harper Collins, 1997
Behind a locked door, at the top
of the stairs, in a house high
above the Andalusian plain,
waits The Forgetting Room.
By entering an old Spaniard’s
painting studio the reader is
drawn into Armon Hurt’s
inexorable struggle to unravel
the clues that will unlock his
own future.
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HarperCollins, 1999
Part narrative, part surreal
catalogue, The Museum at
Purgatory follows the
post-death journey of the
mysterious curator Non as he
gathers together artists and
collectors, sifting and
analyzing their lives, all in a
desperate attempt to break the
amnesia that stops him from
embarking on his passage to
Heaven or Hell.
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The Artful Dodger
Chronicle & Raincoast Books,
2000
Nick Bantock brings new meaning
to the art of autobiography.
Funny, idiosyncratic and full of
insight into the creative
process, The Artful Dodger,
is an intimate behind-the-scenes
tour of Bantock's lifework —
interweaving his reminiscences
with 350 resplendent images.
Taking his fans through the
charmed conception and birth of
his best-selling books.
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There Was
An Old Lady
Viking, 1990
The first of Nick Bantock’s
pop-up books, is based on the
classic WW1 playground verse,
There Was An Old Lady Who
Swallowed A Fly. The Old
lady in question devours a
variety of animals, ending with
a horse, which of course, kills
her—dead!
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Jabberwocky
Viking, 1991
Lewis Carroll’s nonsense rhyme
gets a twist, in the second of
Nick’s small pop-ups. Beheading
turns out to be no deterrent to
this particular Jabberwocky,
who performs a scary, mind
shattering, paper-mechanical
rehabilitation.
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Solomon
Grundy
Viking, 1992
Born with a cheerful
disposition, during a dreadful
storm, Solomon’s existence goes
downhill as the weather
gradually improves. Nick
Bantock’s pop-up version of this
traditional and ironic poem,
chronicles sad Solomon’s demise
in a way that provides hope for
all. If only on the grounds
that, "Somebody’s worse off than
me!"
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The Walrus
and The Carpenter
Viking, 1992
This is a pop-up tale of
betrayal and kidnapped oysters,
where shoes and ships and
sealing wax and cabbages and
kings are used as diversions to
distract a group of poor,
gullible oysters from the
merciless appetites of the
The Walrus and The Carpenter.
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Robin Hood
Viking, 1993
Young Master Hood is alone in
Sherwood Forest, and being
bored, decides to take on the
guises of his absent friends.
After donning the robes of
Little John, Maid Marion, The
Sheriff of Nottingham and the
others, he heads home for a good
old cup of English tea. Robin
Hood is the fifth and last
of Nick Bantock’s humorous
pop-up miniatures.
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Wings
Random House, 1990
How do wings work, and what
makes flying possible? Using the
examples of dragonflies, birds,
humans and others, Nick’s early
pop-up both describes and shows
the basic principal of flight;
an elegant and informative book
that’s been long out of print
and quite hard to find.
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Runners,
Sliders, Bouncers, Climbers
Hyperion, 1992
R.S.B.C. looks at the
vastly different means of
movement employed by land based
creatures. From the slithering
of snakes, to the hopping of
Kangaroos, this Nick Bantock
pop-up pictures and describes
the full spectrum of animal
locomotion.
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Kubla Khan
Viking, 1993
Based on Samuel Taylor
Coleridge’s extraordinary poem
of a paradise lost, Bantock has
created a darkly rich pop-up
book that forsakes his usual
gallows humor and focuses on a
set of unfolding three
dimensional collages as a means
of evoking the exotic and
stately pleasure dome of Xanadu.
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Ceremony
of Innocence
Real World, U.K., 1997
Years in the making,
Ceremony of Innocence is
finally here. This CD- ROM has
swept the Electronic Media
Awards around the world with its
enchanting interactive retelling
of the mystical story
Griffin & Sabine. All
fifty-eight cards and letters of
the trilogy burst into life
through interactive riddles,
animation, film, video, fine art
and photomontage; as the story
is narrated by Paul McGann,
Isabella Rossellini, and Ben
Kingsley.
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The
Missing Nose Flute
Chronicle Books, 1991
For many years Nick Bantock
built a collection of
unconventionally funny
postcards. In these prime
examples from the early days of
the twentieth century, he has
added his own off-the-wall
captions, which poignantly serve
to magnify the unintentional
comedy of a bygone age.
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Capolan
ArtBox
Chronicle Books, 1997
When the Capolanian government
wanted commemorative stamps and
postcards created in honor of
their 650th anniversary, they
turned to Nick Bantock. The
result is a sumptuous treasure
box of history, legend, and
fantasy. Inside you will find
postcards and stamps Mr. Bantock
created along with a book—not
much larger than a passport—in
which he introduces the history,
philosophy, customs, and
traditions of this mysterious
nomadic tribe.
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