What We See When We Read - Peter Mendelsund (light wear) The Fugs Beautifully illustrated with images from

Beautifully illustrated with images from the author’s rare library

Magnetic Woman examines the life and work of the artist Toyen (Marie Čermínová

Schwob was as versed in the street slang of medieval thieves as he was in the poetry of Walt Whitman

— Specialist glyph typeface of the alien language (Formaldehyde-face)

What We See When We Read - Peter Mendelsund (light wear) The Fugs Beautifully illustrated with images fromWhat We See When We Read by Peter Mendelsund ISBN 9780804171632 420 page paperback from Vintage Books *** A playful, illustrated treatise on how words give rise to mental images Mendelsund argues that reading is an act of co creation, and that our impressions of characters and places owe as much to our own memory and experience as to the descriptive powers of authors. . . . [What We See When We Read] explore[s] the peculiar challenges of transforming