{"product_id":"coffee-table-book-of-halloween-hardcover","title":"Coffee Table Book of: Halloween (Hardcover)","description":"\u003cp\u003eCoffee Table Book of: Halloween is a large-format coffee table book about Halloween, printed edge to edge in colour, one picture to a page and the widest carried across two. It shows the season as still life and landscape, from the pumpkin patch to the full moon over the fields.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt opens in the pumpkin patch: ripe pumpkins on their withering vines, a golden pumpkin flower beaded with dew, a heap of heirloom pumpkins on straw, and a giant pumpkin creased under its own weight beside a small hay bale. Then the old lanterns: a lone bonfire on a bare hilltop, a carved turnip lantern on a stone wall, and pale lights hovering over a dark marsh.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen carving: a pumpkin with its lid lifted and its inside scraped clean, and a freshly carved face with a wide, toothy grin. Then the jack-o'-lanterns: one glowing on fallen leaves, a small group on a dry-stone wall, a white pumpkin lantern on a mossy step, one carved with stars and crescent moons, a tall pyramid of glowing faces, and one dusted with early snow.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen porches and doorsteps: a farmhouse porch with corn stalks and chrysanthemums, a wreath of dried oak leaves on a dark green door, and worn stone steps lit by lanterns. Then old houses at dusk: a Victorian house with a round corner tower, a grey Gothic Revival cottage, a railed platform on a rooftop above the sea, and a clapboard house alone in a field of golden grass.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen the Halloween table: caramel apples, glossy red candy apples, a glass bowl of candy corn, a pitcher of cloudy apple cider, a barmbrack with a gold ring beside the slice, and soul cakes marked with crosses. Then fields and scarecrows: corn shocks standing in rows on the stubble, a scarecrow with a crow on its arm, and a red covered bridge among scarlet maples.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen autumn woods and churchyards: a leaf-strewn path among grey beeches, bright orange wild mushrooms, brambles heavy with the last blackberries, a small stone church in mist, a roofed lychgate, and candles glowing on old graves.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShort notes run through the book. They are about Halloween and the season rather than about the pictures: how the Halloween lantern came to North America, how a black cat's coat can rust in the sun, which old Japanese chronicle tells of a scarecrow god who cannot walk but knows everything, and where moonlight really comes from.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePrinted in full colour on heavy 150gsm coated paper at 216 x 279 mm (8.5 x 11 inches), as a hardcover with the art printed on the case.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cedar Pine Editions","offers":[{"title":"Case Bound - PPC","offer_id":68148326465840,"sku":"9671456004501","price":22.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0262\/2357\/5085\/files\/9671456004501.jpg?v=1792629946","url":"https:\/\/www.thegreatbritishbookshop.co.uk\/products\/coffee-table-book-of-halloween-hardcover","provider":"The Great British Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}