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  • Penguin Drop Caps: A Collector's Guide
    Penguin Drop Caps: A Collector's Guide

    Complete collector's guide to Penguin Drop Caps, with all 26 alphabet titles, ISBNs, Jessica Hische cover art design notes. One letter, one author, one classic.

  • Abbeville Illustrated Classics: A Collector’s Guide
    Abbeville Illustrated Classics: A Collector’s Guide

    A collector’s guide to Abbeville Illustrated Classics, including Little Women, The Secret Garden, A Christmas Carol, October Shadows, and boxed sets.

  • Chronicle Books
    Chronicle Books

    Explore some of Chronicle books prettiest series for collectors.

  • DK's Esoteric Histories
    DK's Esoteric Histories

    Large-format books on occult esoterica with a visual language that lands somewhere between museum catalogue, coffee-table art book, and serious reference work.

  • Cernunnos Esoteric Visual Histories
    Cernunnos Esoteric Visual Histories

    Profusely illustrated overviews of esoteric studies across art, religion, and literature. Tactile matching spines, with each volume focusing on a different topic (demons, angels, tarot).

  • Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation Collecting Guide
    Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation Collecting Guide

    A collector's guide to the English editions of Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation, including deluxe hardcover novels, deluxe comic book editions and companions.

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