Public Domain Hour
Every week Logos employees scour the public domain archives looking for free, downloadable content to share.
The Devil Makes Three on Daytrotter
For this week’s Public Domain hour we bring you some delightful and FREE music from our friends The Devil Makes Three! This week Daytrotter posted the sessions with The Devil Makes Three, something I have personally been waiting for for a long time. Daytrotter is a studio based in Illinois that records musicians as... »
Arabian Nights – Illustrated by Maxfield Parrish
Some of the best illustrators in history have illustrated Arabian Nights, Maxfield Parrish is one of my favorites. Download the pdf here. »
The Master Key, an Electrical Fairy Tale Founded Upon the Mysteries of Electricity – L. Frank Baum
Every once in a while I look around places like Project Gutenberg aimlessly hoping to find something new and exciting. Working in a bookstore you can sometimes feel like you’ve seen everything out there (even though you know deep down that is impossible). Well, last week was one of those times, and BOY how... »
War Ration Books
For this week’s Public Domain Hour we bring you a photograph from the Library of Congress Picture Archives. Title: Printing war ration book 2. Glued sheets containing four ration books pass through the cutting machine and come out into single ration books. Weelan Reilly feeds the cutter as Ida Stuart, left, and Isabel Small,... »
Harper’s Young People: An Illustrated Weekly
One of the best places to go for public domain material is Project Gutenberg, the first producer of free electronic books. They have over 30,000 e-books available for free download in the United States, including Harper’s Young People, a weekly illustrated magazine from 1879 and 1880. below are a series of some of my... »
Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening – Robert Frost
For National Poetry Month, we’d like to share some of our favorite poems with you. Below is my favorite from Robert Frost. Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though; He will not see me stopping here To watch his... »
Wilderness by Rockwell Kent
Rockwell Kent is an American artist and illustrator, well known for his paintings, book illustrations (Moby Dick), and bookplates. What many people don’t know is that he was also an adventurer. His first book, Wilderness is his account from 1918-19 of adventuring in the Alaskan frontier with his 9-year-old son. Peppered with beautiful illustrations,... »
Codex Seraphinianus – Now Available for Download
A good friend of mine once showed me some images online of Codex Seraphinianus, the visual encyclopedia of an unknown world created by Italian artist Luigi Serafini. Approximately 360 pages, Serafini created the codex during 30 months between 1976 and 1978. The book is filled with beautiful pages of fantastic creatures in an unknown... »
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
With the onset of Tim Burton’s film Alice, people seem to be flocking to our store looking for beautiful old illustrated versions of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. As a used bookstore, sometimes we can’t always provide the cool old books we would like to. We can only sell you what people sell us. What... »
Hansel and Gretel and Other Tales – Kay Nielsen
As a followup to our last Public Domain Hour, we bring you Hansel and Gretel and Other Tales illustrated by Kay Nielsen. A rare book to find, this is a beautifully illustrated edition. Download the PDF of Hansel and Gretel and Other Tales illustrated by Kay Nielsen »
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