Sentence examples for book advertisements from inspiring English sources
In "Read Me: A Century of Classic American Book Advertisements," Dwight Garner collects nearly three hundred pages of book advertisements to find what he calls a "secret history, narrated in public" of America's literary culture.
Beginning with his comeback book, "Advertisements for Myself," in 1959, he bled his life and his personality into his writing.
A better title for this flickeringly engaging volume would have been, after Norman Mailer's 1959 book, "Advertisements for Ourselves".
Book advertisements, by about 1650 a regular feature of the newssheets, sometimes had brief comments added, and regular catalogs began to appear, such as the English quarterly Mercurius librarius, or A Catalogue of Books (1668 70).
In 1959, when Mailer was generally dismissed as a one-book author, he made a bid for attention with the book Advertisements for Myself, a collection of unfinished stories, parts of novels, essays, reviews, notebook entries, or ideas for fiction.
Comic book advertisements for the Official C.I.A. Water Bomb Approved Ventriloquism Kit, Joke Party Record, "Krazy" Kastro Mask, "Play it Again Uncle Sam" Musical Mystery Pipe, Joke Bullhorn, Dribble Pen, Jumbo V.I.P. Squirt Bouquet and Helicopter Gunship.
Sometimes graphic design is called "visual communications," a term that emphasizes its function of giving form e.g., the design of a book, advertisement, logo, or Web site to information.
Show we are highbrow by having a book advertisement for 10 minutes with an arts correspondent - don't worry, it doesn't have to be news!
It's great for a photo to live in its initial context - a magazine, book, advertisement - but what I love more than that is when a photo becomes a part of the subject's life, when it's something they have in their home, or want to give their parents or kids.
Amazon has applied for patents that would allow in-book advertisements on the Kindle.
Sites www.steveconley.com/comicads.htm A gallery of classic comic-book advertisements, including some for Sea Monkeys, X-Ray Specs and the Charles Atlas fitness course ("The Insult That Made a Man Out of Mac").
