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Professor Mmaa's Lecture
Describes the personal and professional life of Sylvester Stallone and depicts his struggle to achieve success as a film actor, writer, and director.
The Table That Ran Away to the Woods
Tells the story of a writing desk that one day grabbed two pairs of shoes, ran downstairs, and took flight, escaping into the countryside with its owners in barefoot pursuit. Includes a note with historical information.
BIOGRAPHY OF A PUBLISHING HOUSE
Biografie van een uitgeverij / Biography of a Publishing House. Stefan & Franciszka Themerson & Gaberbocchus' presents the exceptional qualities of Stefan and Franciszka Themerson's Gaberbocchus Press.0The Themersons, a Polish-born, British couple, combined the disciplines of philosopher, writer, painter, illustrator, graphic designer, film-maker and publisher, produced publications that are remarkable in every sense of the word. 'There is a madness about various Gaberbocchus books which is the spice of life, an ingredient somewhat lacking in the world of impeccable book production', wrote a critic in 1956. 'Not best-sellers, but best-lookers' was how Stefan and Franciszka Themerson formulat...
My First Nursery Book
A republication of a book of well-known nursery tales first published in Great Britain during the 1940s, with illustrations by the Polish avant-garde artist and filmmaker, Franciszka Themerson.
Hobson's Island
Hobson's Island (so called because Mr. Hobson bought it, or did Mr. Hobson buy it because it was so called?) enjoyed decades of isolation in the Atlantic Ocean. For years, the caretakers lived there peacefully, with only a cow for company and an empty house to care for. But all is suddenly disrupted when a wave of unusual visitors arrive: a deposed African king fleeing a revolution, a Hobson descendant claiming ownership, government agents eyeing the nation-less real estate, and scientists looking to test a dangerous new invention. In typical Themerson fashion, the comic is wound up with the serious and let go to devastating effect. A clever and apt parodying of Cold War power plays and twisted science, Hobson's Island is a strangely touching, sympathetic, and emotional account of the families and individuals brought together and broken up by Hobson's Island.
Bayamus & Cardinal Pölätüo
With an introduction by Keith Waldrop Two riotous novels by the Polish-Born British writer Stefan Thermson, who with his wife Francesca ran the Baberbocchus press in London, which also published Schwitters and Russell. Bayamus recounts the adventures of a self-proclaimed mutant with three legs and his efforts to propogate a new species. Cardinal Polatuo is the biography of Apollinaire's anonymous father, including an insight into his frankly obscene dreamlife.
Mr Rouse Builds His House
The story of Mr. Rouse, who has decided to build himself a house. Inevitably, the process is much longer and more detailed than Mr. Rouse initially envisions: "Mr. Builder, I'm not a bird, you know; how could I live in a house made of leaves?"
Semantic Divertissements
"Semantic Divertissements" is the charming 1962 artists' book by the late Polish-born, London-based writer, filmmaker and publisher Stefan Themerson and his artist wife Franciszka. Issued by his own Gaberbocchus Press, it presents ten collaborative works combining his amusing concrete poetry with her whimsical drawings
