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Twelve Audubon Bookmarks (Dover Bookmarks)

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I really like my Audubon bookmarks. They came very quickly, with free shipping thru my Amazon Prime. They are very attractive. Some reviews on other similar bookmarks complain about the quality or the fact that you tear them off leaving perforations. The quality seems good to me, they are glossy, and substantial paper weight. If the perforations bother you so much just trim them off, there is plenty of room along the white border.

If you need one or more little items to jack your order up to $25 for free shipping, this is a nice way to go. True, these do tear-out of a little book (and thus have a perforated edge) but they tear easily, and these bookmarks are handy when you want to avoid folding the corner of a page! (Folding page corners devalues books; a bookmark is far better.) The photos are on heavy laminated stock, and with birds in my family, I love supporting the Audubon Society!

As this is a gift at hoilday time it is a small item to be shipped to each family member as every one is a reader. & it makes a wonderful gift.

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Dover Publications has distinguished itself by publishing numerous inexpensive booklets of twelve tear-out cardboard bookmarks. The core collection probably still dwells among the seminal late 19th-Century European masters like Monet and Van Gogh, but other themes have emerged and TWELVE AUDUBON BOOKMARKS is one of the best. Based on the prints of 19th-Century naturalist John James Audubon (1785-1851), these bird prints made-into-bookmarks are realistic, uniquely American, and so timeless as to constitute works of art in their own right. Each bookmark portrays two birds (noted on the back of the bookmark), sometimes male and female of the same species and sometimes two different species: not a "postage stamp" colletion of avian fauna, but in the realistic settings Audubon researched and knew so well while searching out his birds. Color and line are detailed and accurate. Rarely have the specific/scientific and the heroic/esthetic realms of visual art been portayed so simultaneously and so stunningly.

It's no secret many of us use these low-cost booklets to push an Amazon order over $25- and thus qualify for free shipping. I recommend buying them under any circumstances, as a little treat for friends, or as companion to an Amazon art or nature book. Cheaper than a greeting card, these twelve bookmarks constitute a unique species of Americana that has endured and will endure. Anyone who loves domestic birds, art prints, or nature in general is a likely recipient for such a charming little present. And don't forget yourself! Strongest recommendation.

The book has a lot of information and display of bookmarks. I highly recommend this book to bookmark lovers and collectors.

the book are great, I love the pictures. I can use several of them for gifts or mail them to my cousins as a little neat surprise. Everybody needs a bookmark. Everybody should be reading.

I was looking for bookmarks to help with my the random reference pages in my schoolbook, and these cute bookmarks were just what I was looking for.