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Book of Hours: A Wordless Novel Told in 99 Wood Engravings
The Life and Times of Conrad Black: A Wordless Biography
Let That Bad Air Out: Buddy Bolden’s Last Parade
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A striking visual saga in linocuts of the life of John 'Daddy' Hall, a man of Mohawk and African-American descent who survived war, capture and slavery to become a pillar of the community in nineteenth-century Owen Sound, Ontario.
LanguageEnglish
Release dateNov 1, 2007
Book of Hours: A Wordless Novel Told in 99 Wood Engravings
The Life and Times of Conrad Black: A Wordless Biography
Let That Bad Air Out: Buddy Bolden’s Last Parade

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  • Let That Bad Air Out: Buddy Bolden’s Last Parade

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    Let That Bad Air Out: Buddy Bolden’s Last Parade
    Let That Bad Air Out: Buddy Bolden’s Last Parade

    Stefan Berg revives the wordless graphic novel in his portrait of the ‘first man of jazz’. Very little is known of Buddy Bolden. His music was never recorded and there is only one existing photograph, yet he is considered to be the first bandleader to play the improvised music that has since become known as jazz.

  • Book of Hours: A Wordless Novel Told in 99 Wood Engravings

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    Book of Hours: A Wordless Novel Told in 99 Wood Engravings
    Book of Hours: A Wordless Novel Told in 99 Wood Engravings

    In the Book of Hours, award-winning wood engraver George A. Walker creates a modern-day, secular devotional that captures in narrative imagery what is too devastating for words: the individual moments of innocence and routine life that ended with the onslaught of 9/11.

  • The Life and Times of Conrad Black: A Wordless Biography

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    The Life and Times of Conrad Black: A Wordless Biography
    The Life and Times of Conrad Black: A Wordless Biography

    Master engraver George A. Walker presents The Life and Times of Conrad Black, a wordless biography of the Canadian-born media mogul. With 100 stunning woodcuts, Walker affords readers a glimpse of Black as a child, as a successful businessman, as a British peer, and as a convicted felon.

  • The Mysterious Death of Tom Thomson

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    The Mysterious Death of Tom Thomson
    The Mysterious Death of Tom Thomson

    In master engraver George A. Walker’s newest work, The Mysterious Death of Tom Thomson, the circumstances surrounding the death and disappearance of the iconic Canadian artist are explored through some one hundred and nine wood engravings, creating a work that eulogizes not only the artist himself, but the struggle of the artist’s attempt to express himself while constrained by society, the reality of the moment, and mortality.

  • The Wordless Leonard Cohen Songbook

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    The Wordless Leonard Cohen Songbook
    The Wordless Leonard Cohen Songbook

    The Wordless Leonard Cohen Songbook is a graphic retrospective of Canadian singer-songwriter, poet and novelist Leonard Cohen’s career. Consisting of 80 black and white wood engravings, the book was crafted by master engraver George A. Walker in honour of Cohen’s 80th birthday.

  • Never More Together

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    Never More Together
    Never More Together

    In this wordless poem, the invasion of a malevolent corporate regime causes a peaceful society to become embroiled in disquiet and savage upheaval.

  • Daddy Hall: A Biography in 80 Linocuts

    Daddy Hall: A Biography in 80 Linocuts
    Daddy Hall: A Biography in 80 Linocuts

    A striking visual saga in linocuts of the life of John 'Daddy' Hall, a man of Mohawk and African-American descent who survived war, capture and slavery to become a pillar of the community in nineteenth-century Owen Sound, Ontario.

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George A. Walker

by George A. Walker, Foreword by Barry Moser

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