Posts Tagged ‘Books’

The Great Morbid Anatomy Library Flood of 2012: List of Destroyed Books Now Posted

Posted on April 10th, 2012 • Filed under Learn • No Comments

Thanks so very much to all of you for your outpouring of support, donations, and offers to help in the aftermath of The Great Morbid Anatomy Flood of 2012 (more details on that here). Many of you have asked to see a list of those books lost, in the interest of ordering or sending particular books for the library; I have created a special Amazon wish list that contains all books lost, and will ship directly to the library; you can check it out by clicking here.

For those of you who would like to mail books directly, our mailing list is:

Joanna Ebenstein
c/o The Morbid Anatomy Library
543 Union Street #1E
Brooklyn, NY 11215

Thanks so much, again, for all your support, and please save the date for an upcoming benefit party to take place Saturday May 12. Please contact me if you’d like to donate objects or artworks for a silent auction, or talent for performances, or labor!

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Seth Godin: Books That Will Change The Way You Work & Think [Headlines]

Posted on November 3rd, 2011 • Filed under Look • No Comments

Business guru provides a list of his recommended autumn reads which includes reads by Tim Wu and John Taylor Gatto.

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“Conjuring & Circus: Books, Prints, Posters and Apparatus” Auction, Bloomsbury Auctions, London, September 8

Posted on September 1st, 2011 • Filed under Learn • No Comments

It has just come to my attention that Bloomsbury Auction House in London, England will be auctioning off a pretty epic collection of 729 lots related to “conjuring and circus”–a few of my favorites above–this Thursday September 8th.

You can find out more–and learn how to bid!–on the Bloomsbury Auction website by clicking here. Thanks so much to Morbid Anatomy reader Janine Veazue for sending this along!

All images sourced from the auction website; details about each can be found here.

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New Lot of Amazing, Lavishly Illustrated, Hard-to-Find Books on Victorian Anthropomorphic Taxidermist Walter Potter for Sale!

Posted on June 22nd, 2011 • Filed under Learn • No Comments

For those of you who, like I, are fascinated by the kitten tea parties, bunny schoolhouses, and kitten croquet matches of the undisputed king of Victorian anthropomorphic taxidermy Walter Potter, I have good news! Henceforth, Morbid Anatomy will be distributing the amazing (and very difficult to find!) book Walter Potter and his Museum of Taxidermy written and published by collector and taxidermy scholar Pat Morris.

There are two versions of the book available: the hardcover (see top image)–which sports a handsome stamped canvas cover and an extra signature of 8 full-color pages–and the paperback (see second image down). Both versions are large scale and lavishly illustrated in full-color with scores of nearly impossible-to-find photographs of Potter’s unforgettable works, archival photographs of the early museum, and antique and vintage ephemera related to the museum (see bottom two images for examples; click on image to see larger size). The book is also extremely well researched, providing a through biography or Mr Potter, a detailed history of his museum of curious taxidermy, and the stories behind the making of his iconic pieces of anthropomorphic taxidermy.

Books can be purchased on Amazon.com; click here to purchase the hardcover, which goes for $50, and here to purchase the soft cover, which goes for $35. But order quickly: I only have about 8 hardback remaining, and 7 paperback, and these books tend to sell out fast!

And one more thing: I am also distributing the paperback version of Pat Morris’ new book A History of Taxidermy: Art, Science and Bad Taste; you can find out more about this book by clicking here. if you are interested in purchasing a copy of this book, you can email me at morbidanatomy [at] gmail.com.

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