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Books in Illuminated Editions series

  • THE FAIRY TALES OF OSCAR WILDE: An Illuminated Edition

    Oscar Wilde, Yuko Shimizu, Michael Cunningham

    Hardcover (Beehive Books, April 21, 2020)
    Oscar Wilde's fairy tales are some of his most elegant and charming pieces of writing. He produced two books of fairy tales -- THE HAPPY PRINCE AND OTHER TALES, and A HOUSE OF POMEGRANATES . They've rarely been collected in one volume -- and never with stunning artwork by Yuko Shimizu (THE UNWRITTEN, BARBED WIRE BASEBALL, A WILD SWAN), one of the modern masters of illustration and graphic art. Wilde's original fairy tales are moving, sweet, sad and magical -- much like Yuko's artwork. Yuko is one of the most celebrated and admired editorial illustrators in the world, and her work is perfectly aligned with Wilde's witty, rueful voice. The edition also features an original introduction by the Pulitzer Prize winning novelist Michael Cunningham.Illuminated Editions is a series of works of classic fiction, prose, and poetry, beautifully designed and lavishly illustrated in exquisitely produced small-batch editions. These volumes intend to harken back to the lovingly crafted, handsomely bound illustrated books of the Victorian era and the golden age of illustration, re-imagined using modern design sensibilities and the most modern techniques in presentation, book-craft, and printing. Each cloth-bound volume in this series is presented in a die-cut slipcase, printed on high quality wood-free uncoated paper, and powerfully elaborated by one of the finest graphic artists in the world.
  • PETER PAN: An Illuminated Edition

    J.M. Barrie, Brecht Evens, Maria Tatar

    Hardcover (Beehive Books, Nov. 3, 2020)
    The beloved classic fantasy adventure PETER PAN (originally published in 1911 as PETER AND WENDY), has been adapted countless times for film, stage, and spin-offs -- but it's never been seen as depicted by the brushwork of celebrated Belgian cartoonist Brecht Evens. This elaborately illuminated version of Barrie's perennial masterwork takes an inventive approach to world-building, treating Neverland as an imaginative space of infinite possibility to explore. Pirate ships, lost cities, fairy societies, unknowable beasts and magical creatures -- each of which fall, as Barrie wrote, "somewhere between reality and all we've ever dreamed." Featuring an introduction by Maria Tatar. 9x12", 176 pages.
  • THE ISLAND OF DOCTOR MOREAU

    H.G. Wells, Bill Siekiewicz, Guillermo Del Toro

    Hardcover (Beehive Books, May 7, 2019)
    H.G. Wells' gleefully blasphemous classic sci-fi horror tale of human chimeras and deranged scientific curiosity comes to nightmarish life through the brushwork of the legendary comic creator and graphic artist Bill Sienkiewicz. Presented in an oversized cloth-bound slipcase edition with the highest production values and finest design sensibilities, this limited edition volume also features an original introduction by filmmaker and storyteller Guillermo Del Toro, director of Pan's Labyrinth, the Hellboy Series, and 2017's Best Picture Academy Award winner The Shape of Water. Part of Beehive Books ongoing ILLUMINATED EDITIONS series, devoted to presenting classic works of prose and poetry in beautiful small-press editions.
  • Nativity: The Nativity

    Marco Ventura, Running Press

    Paperback (Running Pr Book Pub, Oct. 30, 2006)
    The story of the birth of Jesus as recounted in the oft-quoted Gospel of Luke is gloriously illustrated and accompanied by breath-taking transparent images that will fill hearts with gladness and joy during the Christmas season.