The Diaries of Adam and Eve

Mark Twain



Francisco Meléndez (illustrations)

Written in a very humorous style, The Diaries of Adam and Eve prevails as one of Mark Twain’s greatest works. Through the personal story of the first inhabitants of Paradise, we witness their encounters, disagreements and accidents with unexpected surprise, the consequences of which are still regretted today.

Francisco Meléndez, a master of contemporary illustration, has depicted with great talent the Edenic couple in their thoughts and feelings, providing the story with pages of exquisite prints.



Adam’s Diary:
«This new creature with the long hair is a good deal in the way. It is always hanging around and following me about. I don't like this; I am not used to company. I wish it would stay with the other animals... Cloudy today, wind in the east; think we shall have rain... WE? Where did I get that word-- the new creature uses it.»

140 x 210 mm; 112 pp. Hardback
ISBN: 978-84-92412-68-6

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Francisco Meléndez

Zaragoza, 1964



He was awarded in 1987 with the National Illustration Prize for The Black Sheep and Other Fables. As author and illustrator of The True Story of the Invention of the Submarine, he received the LIBER Prize for Best Edited Book and was awarded the Silver Medal at the «Most beautiful books in the world» exhibition in Leipzig in 1990. He was awarded the second National Prize for Illustration in 1992 for Leopold’s Dream. In 1996, Meléndez gave up his career and chose to live in a monastery where he founded an educational and social organization promoting artistic work among children, outside of academic circles.

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The Diaries of Adam and Eve

99 Fantastic Fables

Ambrose Bierce



Carlos Nine (illustrations)

«The Grasshopper and the Ant:
One day in winter a hungry Grasshopper applied to an Ant for some of the food which they had stored. “Why,” said the Ant, “did you not store up some food for yourself, instead of singing all the time?” “So I did,” said the Grasshopper; “so I did; but you fellows broke in and carried it all away.”»

In an excellent collection of fables by Ambrose Bierce, politicians with insatiable ambition, unscrupulous doctors, non-religious members of religious orders, waffling poets, unbalanced judges and lunatics of all sorts march beside human-like lions, mice, rabbits and turtles. All this happens under the sharp and precise pen of one of the most brilliant writers of the twentieth century.

99 Fantastic Fables carefully selected and brilliantly illuminated by Carlos Nine, another visionary of the art of illustration.

140 x 210 mm; 112 pp. Hardback
ISBN: 978-84-92412-62-4

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Carlos Nine

Buenos Aires, 1944



He used to write for The New Yorker, The New York Times and Le Monde, and he has also illustrated many books for publishers in The United States, Europe and Asia, while his works have been exhibited in Barcelona, Brussels, Madrid, Milan, Poitiers and Rome. In 1988 he was honoured as Best Artist Abroad at the Barcelona Comic Fair; in 1993 he was awarded the Silver Clio Prize in New York; later in 1995 he was awarded the Caran d’Ache Prize for Illustration, and in 1997 he was awarded the International Catalònia Prize for Illustration. In 2001 the Superior School of Image in Angoulême awarded his life’s work.

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99 Fantastic Fables

At the Mountains of Madness

Howard Phillips Lovecraft



Enrique Breccia (illustrations)

«It was a terrible, indescribable thing vaster than any subway train – a shapeless congeries of protoplasmic bubbles, faintly self-luminous, and with myriads of temporary eyes forming and un-forming as pustules of greenish light all over the tunnel-filling front that bore down upon us, crushing the frantic penguins and slithering over the glistening floor that it and its kind had swept so evilly free of all litter. Still came that eldritch, mocking cry –“Tekeli-li! Tekeli-li!”...»

In the abysses of Antarctica, an expedition from the University of Miskatonic discovers traces of the civilisation of The Elder Things and an abominable secret: millions of years later, their executioners are still at work in the depths of the ice

An aura of horror fills the pages of this nightmare, whose underworld Enrique Breccia once again masterfully illustrates, following his worldwide bestseller Lovecraft.

165 x 240 mm; 164 pp. Hardback with Jacket

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Enrique Breccia

Buenos Aires, 1945



He is the author of such emblematic works in the comic genre as The Life of Che (1969); Alvar Mayor (1976); The travels of Marco Mono (1981) and Lope de Aguirre (1989). He has published Lovecraft (2002) for the DC Comic publishing house, who also published his famous collaborations for the series Batman: Gotham Knights (2001) and Swamp Thing (2004). In 1963 he won the Gold Medal at the Salon of the Argentinean Cartoonists Association and the 1983 Pléyade Prize for the best graphic production of the year..

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Meeting
In The Mountains of Madness
Koolau el leproso

Letters to Ophélia

Fernando Pessoa



Antonio Seguí (illustrations)

15th October 1920

Little Baby,

You have thousands, even millions, of good reasons for being irked, offended, and arky with me. But I’m not the one to blame. It’s Fate that has condemned my brain –if not definitively, then at least to a condition calling for serious treatment, which I’m not so sure I can get. I plan (without yet resorting to the celebrated May 11th decree) to enter a clinic next month, where I’m hoping for a treatment that will help me fend off the black wave that’s falling over my mind. I don’t know what the result of all this will be –I mean, I can’t imagine what it could be. Don’t wait for me. If I come to see you, it will be in the morning, when you’re on your way to the office in Poço Novo. Don’t worry. What happened, you ask? I got switched with Álvaro de Campos!

Always your

Fernando

48 letters and 16 poems bear witness to the secret romance between the Portuguese poet and young Ophélia Queiroz. A correspondence built up during the decisive years of Fernando Pessoa’s literary production.

Antonio Tabucchi’s prologue offers a deep reflection on these collected letters. Antonio Seguí, the great plastic artist, dedicated those letters more than thirty excellent watercolours.

Translation: Alejandro García Schnetzer

140 x 210 mm; 174 pp. Hardback
ISBN: 978-84-92412-47-1

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Antonio Seguí

Córdoba, Argentina, 1934



His work was awarded the Grand Prix at the Tokyo Print Biennial (1966), the International Prize for painting at Darmstadt, Germany (1967); the Grand Prix at the Krakow Print Biennial (1968); the Grand Prix of the National Arts Fund, Buenos Aires (1990); the Gold Medal of the Triennial of Graphic Arts in Norway (1995). In 2005 the Georges Pompidou Centre in Paris organized a successful retrospective of his work.

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Parisian Tales
Letters to Ophélia