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5/10/2022 Icon: Marilyn Monroe is back! This big Marilyn Monroe poster has pride of place at the Arcane Publishing HQ! The fabulous Marilyn Monroe has always been a favourite of the Arcane Publishing team! Indeed, Miss Gish had several posters of the legendary Hollywood star on the walls of her bedroom from the age of 8 (we have pictures the prove it!) and she was given a very special Marilyn Monroe book for her 10th birthday (it's still on our shelves!) many centuries ago... We have a big stock of classic cinema books for sale here at Arcane towers and we used to sell quite a lot of them up to a few years ago. Unfortunately, classic cinema has fallen out of fashion and favour with audiences - as demonstrated by the axing of Radio 4's The Film Programme which was often fascinating, especially the programmes presented by the super-knowledgeable Antonia Quirke. This radio show was the only place where you could still regularly hear about classic cinema in the mainstream media. Thankfully, the BBC IPlayer has some movies up (but they don't often upload any new ones) and programmes in their archives - and at the moment, there is the amazing RKO Story: Tales from Hollywood, which we highly recommend. Once a lover of classic cinema always a lover of classic cinema. We cannot help regularly adding to our pile of Golden Age of cinema volumes and ephemera... and of course, we are collectors ourselves; you should see the amazing books we own, all about the fascinating history of Hollywood, the pioneers, the stars, the set designers, the writers, etc. We just adore the whole thing! Even though Marilyn Monroe had remained iconic for decades, modern tastes had made people turn their back on this most unique of stars... She was rather astonishing as a person, for many reasons. And incredibly talented. Not only was she a superb actress with an incredible presence (-yes, really, watch her films!) she was also a poet and a thinker. Over the past week, I have seen MM mentioned twice in the cultural pages of newspapers. Are we about to see a rehabilitation of Marilyn? On Tuesday morning, Andy Warhol's artwork titled "Shot Sage Blue Marilyn" sold for $195M - a record sum in the art world. Hopefully this news will bring Marilyn back into the public's consciousness. Then there is the Netflix documentary The Mystery of Marilyn Monroe: The Unheard Tapes which is currently being shown on Netflix (I haven't got Netflix so won't watch it myself!). So here at Arcane Towers, we have some amazing Marilyn Monroe items for sale from our "Classic Hollywood stock." For more pictures of the books and magazines, head to our Instagram Page (links in the titles below)!  Marilyn Among Friends, 1987  Before Marilyn, 2015  Paris Match - L'Affaire Marilyn, July 1962  Paris Match - Goodbye Marilyn, August 1962 4/4/2022 HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO US! HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO US! I cannot believe that it has been 10 years since I founded Arcane Publishing! I am immensely proud of the two novels I have written and published so far on the imprint, and I cannot wait to publish my third novel The Right Place and start work in earnest on my fourth book... We have done a lot in those ten years. I have written, edited and published two novels thanks to the help of @bigstevepoet and of course artist, designer, antiques and vintage trader extraordinaire @mattartpix It's not easy to develop a very small business when you have a tiny budget but we have kept our independence and we do everything on our own terms. So now in 2022, after two years of pandemic, we have a lot of plans... We will publish our third book, The Right Place, in late 2023. Work has already started on our fourth book, Hell Lane: A Barton Stacey Mystery. We will be developing our pre-loved, vintage and rare books business further this year with events and hopefully at some point in 2023, an online shop. And we'd love to find a brick and mortar temporary home too! Watch this space for further announcements!
3/31/2022 We're back! Projects and more... We are finally back, and planning on working on several related projects over the next few weeks and months: in addition to Miss Gish working on the completion of the first draft of The Right Place, we need to sort out various promotional material for Arcane and its publications, and start planning an online website for the pre-loved/vintage and rare books side of the business. I am also thinking about booking some events to promote the imprint and my books, and sell some pre-loved books!
2/21/2022 Update February 2022! Arcane is slowly coming out of hibernation, and we are full of energy!
Miss Gish will very soon go back to work on her third novel, The Right Place! We have been working behind the scenes to prepare for a spring and summer blitz of promotion! In 2022/2023, we will be dedicating our time to publishing The Right Place and developing Arcane's bookselling business... The pub date for The Right Place is now late autumn 2023... We will be updating this website regularly as we spend the next few months working towards publication and developing our online bookshop! We are also really looking forward to starting work properly on Miss Gish's fourth novel, Hell Lane... There are already a lot of ideas swirling around, and we think it's going to be a good one! We might have a few exciting announcements to make very soon, so watch this space! 1/16/2022 Intermission... yet again! We are announcing yet another intermission to the online activity across our multiple sites!
We are resuming our fundraising effort for Arcane Publishing, very much needed to develop the business and secure the printing costs of Miss Gish's third novel The Right Place, due to be published in late 2023. This final intermission is scheduled to end in early April 2022, but do keep an eye on the Arcane Publishing Instagram as we will be posting some items from time to time on there until I am in the position to resume work properly on The Right Place and all Arcane business!  If the past two years have made you crave travel to far away lands or you've just been watching Around the World in 80 days, this is the book for you! Packed with gorgeous visuals from drawings, illustrations, photographs, travel posters, postcards and luggage labels, this book covers over 100 years of sophisticated travel: ocean liners, luxury trains, zeppelin, yachts and more! This book is in excellent condition. Hardback with dust jacket First UK edition, 1991 220 pages 25cm X 32cm £12 + £3.55 P&P sent second class Royal Mail within the UK
         Black has always been described as the chicest and most dramatic colour! It has inspired fashion designers who keep going back to it again and again! This book presents the best examples of Black Dresses in fashion throughout the ages from a Redfern half-mourning Afternoon Dress (1910-1912) to the "Bernadette" Day Dress by Calvin Klein (1996). All the best designers are featured: Vivienne Westwood, Mary Quant, Dior, Yves Saint Laurent, Armani, Moschino, Yamamoto, Givenchy, Alaia, Zandra Rhodes and many more. The condition is good, but with some light scratching and fraying on the dust jacket. Hardback with dust jacket Published by V&A publications, 1999 26cm X 34.5cm 344 pages £12 + £3.55 P&P, sent second Class Royal Mail within the UK Sold by Arcane Publishing www.arcanepublishing.net             The iconic fashion house Yves St Laurent will be celebrating its 60th anniversary this year with no less than six exhibitions held around Paris in 2022. Read The Guardian's article about the 2022 St Laurent exhibitions in Paris HERE. For sale, this very rare item from my personal collection! Yves St Laurent par Yves St Laurent, published in 1986 by Herscher/Musée des arts de la mode This volume was published on the occasion of the exhibition "Yves St Laurent: 28 années de création" held from 30th May to 26th October 1986 at the Musée des arts de la mode in Paris. Illustrated throughout with photographic images of St Laurent's creations, as well as reproductions of his design sketches from the 50s to the 80s. Preface by Bernard Henry-Lévy. Commentaries by Hélène de Turckheim. Text in French language. Grey cloth over boards with YSL logo stamped in black on upper board, black lettering on spine: two very faint stains on the cloth cover. Photo-illustrated dust jacket; please note that the dust jacket is not in great condition due to my numerous moves over the years; some sections of the dust jacket are missing and there is some serious fraying. £100 Price included P&P Sold by Arcane Pubishing www.arcanepublishing.net             
 This is a gorgeous and well-preserved, illustrated 1961 edition of the 1855 poem by American writer and linguist H.W Longfellow author, wonderfully illustrated by Joan KiIddell-Monroe.   12/23/2021 We're back! (for a few weeks...) We're back, albeit for a brief period only...
Before we come back for good later in 2022! The past four months have been very challenging, but we have managed to make it to the end of our fundraising effort... BUT we're going to extend this effort to Easter, with a few weeks' break in between starting now. So expect some activity on here and on our various websites over the next few weeks as we catch up with things! Then we'll have to go offline again for three months until we come back for good in early April 2022; after that, we'll be working flat out on our projects! The online bookshop and publication of our third novel are still happening in 2022 and 2023 respectively, but it's just all going at a slower pace... Watch this space for more pre-loved books news and progress reports about The Right Place! |
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