Labyrinth Books

Labyrinth is an independent scholarly and community bookstore for engaged readers in Princeton, New Jersey. The store is as committed to deep backlist selections in fiction, the arts, and all scholarly fields as it is to featuring new voices and current debates in the culture.

122 Nassau Street
Princeton, NJ 08542
609.497.1600

Best-Selling Design Books (January)

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The Secret Language of Color Add to My Reading List

Joann Eckstut

In this beautiful and thorough investigation, The Secret Language of Color celebrates and illuminates the countless ways in which color colors our world.

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The Art of Rube Goldberg Add to My Reading List

Jennifer George

Not many of us make it into the dictionary as an adjective. But then again, Rube Goldberg was no ordinary noun. He was a cartoonist, humorist, sculptor, author, engineer, and inventor, and in a 72-year career he wrote and illustrated nearly 50,000 cartoons. 

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Textiles of the Islamic World Add to My Reading List

John Gillow

This book surveys the astonishing array of textiles made, worn, used and displayed throughout the Islamic world, from the glorious fabrics of the past to those still being produced today.

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Art and the Second World War Add to My Reading List

Monica Bohm-Duchen

Art and the Second World War is the first book in English to provide a comprehensive and detailed international overview of the complex and often disturbing relationship between war and the fine arts during this crucial period of modern history.

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The Itinerant Languages of Photography Add to My Reading List

Eduardo Cadava et al.

The Itinerant Languages of Photography examines photography’s capacity to circulate across time and space as well as across other media, such as art, literature, and cinema.

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