The Narrative of Trajan's Column - Italo Calvino Galaxie 500 One of the strangest books

One of the strangest books I've dug up in a long time

The Grammar of Ornament: A Visual Reference of Form and Colour in Architecture and the Decorative Arts - The complete and unabridged full-color edition - by Owen Jones / ISBN 9780691172064 / a nice heavy hardcover

Giorgio Griffa

this was Danilo Kiš final work

Clarence Holbrook Carter: The Metamorphosis of an American Surrealist / 250-page book with hundreds of images

The Narrative of Trajan's Column - Italo Calvino Galaxie 500 One of the strangest booksThe Narrative of Trajan's Column by Italo Calvino ISBN 9780241472859 small 112 page paperback from Penguin's Great Ideas series *** 'When the last fire goes out, time too will be finished' Italo Calvino was one of the most joyful and imaginative writers of the twentieth century. Here he muses on what the things we leave behind whether waxworks or ancient graffiti, enigmatic maps or a crumbling Roman column tell us about the greater truths of the