![]() ![]() Reading the cards and letters is akin to peeking beyond a couple’s bedroom and into the mystical elixir that is their passion and intellect combined. The books function like mini handheld art galleries: The story is told through image-filled postcards and illustrated envelopes with removable letters that provide a tactile, vicarious thrill. The unusual, episodic love story of Griffin Moss, a London postcard artist, and Sabine Strohem, a woman who lives on a South Pacific archipelago and illustrates stamps, originated in 1991. For other readers, the series is a newfound treasure, but one with a prescribed, finite ending. ![]() For devoted fans, the last hurrah is sad but offers closure. The San Francisco publisher issued this year the special edition with added notecards and the final book in the double trilogy series written and illustrated by Nick Bantock. The “Griffin & Sabine” collection deserves to be on any art- or story-lovers bookshelf.Ī 25th anniversary edition of Chronicle Books’ bestselling Griffin & Sabine: An Extraordinary Correspondence and the release of The Pharos Gate: Griffin & Sabine’s Lost Correspondence are cause for bittersweet celebration. ![]()
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