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Envelopes: A Puzzling Journey Through the Royal Mail (Hardcover)

by Harriet Russell (Author)

4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)

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Hardcover: 96 pages
Publisher: Allison and Busby (1 Oct 2008)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0749079231
ISBN-13: 978-0749079239
Product Dimensions: 20.8 x 20.2 x 1.2 cm

Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)

Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 16,507 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)
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'I do love this book. Each page is a little gift of ingenuity. I made happy, yippy noises as I turned each page' LYNNE TRUSS, author of Eats, Shoots and Leaves'Hotly tipped as the stocking-filler hit this Christmas' THE INDEPENDENT'So original - a first-class book' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH, SEVEN MAGAZINE

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Embark on a puzzling journey through Royal Mail. Open this book, and you will discover a most curious and diverting collection of illustrated envelopes, all of which have been sent through the Royal Mail system. In "Envelopes", Harriet Russell has created a wealth of different ways of communicating an address: mazes, join-the-dots, anagrams, illustrations, puns, visual games, experimental fonts, puzzles, and literary wordplay. You may find it hard to believe that the majority of the envelopes arrived at their intended destinations, but they did, and all have the postmarks to prove it! Their safe delivery is a tribute to the heroic postal employees who rose to the challenge.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Utterly completely brilliant and wonderful, 10 Oct 2008

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This is the most beautiful and lovely and clever and bewitching book I've seen for years and years. A really rare example of a simple and brilliant idea which won't be exhausted by a mere ten minutes' perusal - you want to spend time with this book and appreciate the effort, wit and considerable invention that went into it. I'm going to buy about five copies to give away. I think it'll be the one that everyone's talking about.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Truly original and very entertaining, 10 Dec 2006

By	Gordon Baisley (London, UK) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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I originally bought this book having seen many of the envelopes included shown in a gallery in London. Since then I've come back to buy a number of copies as gifts. I don't think there's been one recipient who hasn't commented later how much they've enjoyed it.

Harriets idea - disguising her address as a challenge to her post man - is really original. My favourite must be the crossword.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Tenacity of Postman Pat!, 4 Feb 2009

By	Juanita Lever "vivlever" (North Yorkshire) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Congratulations to the many postmen and women who perservered to find the addresses of these sometimes excrutiatingly irritating hidden addresses.
Whilst Harriet Russell's creativity is to be admired, the ingenious perseverence of the postal workers deserves big applause.
Plese declare yourselves - it would be great to hear your side of the story.
Everyone l gave a copy to at Christmas has located it in their loo...perfect location for this fabulous little book!

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5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic idea and very amusing
This book is excellent, i bought one for my sister, then another for a friend and now i want one for myself! Read more

Published 5 months ago by Ms. H. L. Sturla

3.0 out of 5 stars It's alright.
It's an alright book, for what it is, but I was expecting a little more. It is just literally photos of the envelopes - no description, no anecdotes, nothing. Read more

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