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Softcover. New York, Faber & Faber, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 342 pages. Softcover. Light edgewear to wrappers otherwise Clean, unmarked copy in very good condition.

Hardcover. Grantsville, MD, Hobby House Press, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 112 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Minor shelf-wear to illustrated, laminated boards. No dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, St. Martin's Press, Reprint, 2008, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 242 pages. Hardcover. Photographs by Mark Luinenburg. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Blue cover boards, gilt title on spine. Pages and edges clean and bright. Binding tight, spine straight. In beautiful, like new condition. Now you can fill your kitchen with the irresistible aromas of a French bakery every day with just five minutes of active preparation time, and this book will show you how.

Hardcover. New York, M. T. Richardson, 1st, 1887, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Boards covered in brown cloth with black design on front cover. Tear near the gutter on the first few pages including the frontispiece but it does not effect the image depicted. Still has previous owner's inscription from 1888. Some staining on pages but otherwise, a tight, clean copy. This book covers detailed illustrations of various methods of shoeing with special directions "for shaping shoes to cure different diseases of the foot".

Hardcover. NY, Watson-Guptill, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 144 pages illustrated in color and b&w. Demonstrates a technique developed by Burt Silverman, which utilizes unorthodox painting methods to expand the command of watercolor painting. The author gets the freshness and spontaneity desired in watercolor but has the ability to change his mind, make corrections and build up a watercolor as he might build up a painting in oil or pastel. This book uses step-by-step demonstrations of portraits and figures as well as landscapes to demonstrate the effectiveness of this technique. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Watson Guptill, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 143 pages. Publisher's full blue cloth, silver lettering on spine and front cover, contains 80 color plates and 28 black & white illustrations. Looks at the working methods of American artist Charles Pfahl (b. 1946), and includes "step-by-step photographic demonstrations of paintings in progress, with detailed technical captions showing how each step is painted."

Hardcover. Los Angeles, Vidal Sassoon Inc., 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 169 pages. Hardcover. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Original receipt from Vidal Sassoon Shop in London, England laid-in. Book has damp odor. Light foxing to edges. Light wear.

Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 158 pages. Design writer Siegel takes us on a inspiring tour of the history, stylistic concerns and uses of tiles. Though their cool, hard surface might seem best suited to Mediterranean climates, tiles have enjoyed wide use as far afield as the Netherlands, and any area subject to heavy foot-traffic could benefit from their easily cleaned faces. Lavishly illustrated with color photographs supplied by Country Floors, a well-known tile importing company, the book emphasizes the traditional "country" look; a brief, less successful foray into modern styles relies heavily on simple geometric patterns. In his introduction, Country Floors owner Norman Karlson tells how his fascination with tiles developed. Seemingly meant as a sourcebook for designers and tile enthusiasts, the volume offers scant information on the proper application of tiles--only instructions for care and maintenance. Installation, it is hinted, should be left to a specialist.

Hardcover. Leicester UK, Dryad Press, NA, NA, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, bound collection of 'Dryad Leaflets' related to crafts, hobby, and art. Stamp residue on front endpaper. Light foxing to top edge. Some soiling to yellow cloth covers.

Hardcover. London, Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, 1st, nd, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth covers with black decoration. 103 pages, many b&w illustrations. Name on front flyleaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, PA, Running Press, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 159 pages, color photographs throughout. Light edge wear to dust jacket. Previous price sticker on rear cover. Else a very clean, tight copy. Provides instructions and techniques for working with interior and exterior dollhouse designs, discusses tools and equipment, and offers advice on finding decorating ideas.

Hardcover. Cleveland OH, Dayton C. Miller, reprint, 1922, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 197 pages, dark blue cloth with gilt lettering and design. Many b&w drawings and photos, some fold-out. Light edgewear to cloth edges, mild foxing to end papers, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. New York, Watson Guptill, 1st Ed., 1946, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth stamped in 3 colors. 300 b&w illustrations, 24 in color. Profiles famous illustrators of the 1940s and includes their photo, examples of their work, a step-by-step demonstration of their working methods, and text written from interviews. Artists are: Constantin Alajalov, Boris Artzybasheff, John Atherton, Ernest Hamlin Baker, Walter Biggs, V. Bobri, Harrison Cady, Fred Cooper, Mario Cooper, Dean Cornwell, Gregory D'Alessio, Floyd Davis, Stevan Dohanos, Albert Dorne, Harvey Dunn, Carl Erickson, John Gannam, Glenn Grohe, George Giusti, Stuart Hay, Peter Helck, Earl Oliver Hurst, Walter Klett, Robert Lawson, Ervine Metzl, Wallace Morgan, William Oberhardt, Henry C. Pitz, George Price, Ray Prohaska, Robert Riggs, Leslie Ragan, Norman Rockwell, Martha Sawyers, Howard Scott, Amos Sewell, Donald Teague, Aldren A. Watson, Denys Wortman, and N. C. Wyeth. Top of spine has cloth frayed, rear edge of spine, previous owner's signature on front fly leaf otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Brooklyn NY, Privately Published, 4th Ed., 1916, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Principles and Methods of Expression in the Pictorial Representation of Common Objects, Interiors, Buildings and Landscapes. Hardcover, gray-green boards with a dark green cloth spine. 175 pages, profusely illustrated in b&w. Boards with light edge wear. Otherwise a good clean, tight copy of an early edition of this drawing-technique classic first published in 1908. "This book presents essentially the course of study in Freehand Perspective and Sketching as developed during its teaching at Pratt Institute." Name on front fly leaf, pencil sketches on blank two pages in rear. Clean internally.

Softcover. San Francisco, Sierra Club Books, 1st pbk., 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 288 pages illustrated in color. In sixty practical yet inspirational essays drawn from his Outdoor Photographer column, and in 145 stunning color photographs, world-renowned photographer Galen Rowell explains and demonstrates the techniques he uses to transform light and color into vivid, uniquely expressive art. The illuminating essays in Galen Rowell's Vision are grouped into four chapters covering the fundamental aspects of the art of adventure photography as practiced by one of its masters: "Goals," transforming dreams into realities through personal vision; "Preparations," pushing the limits of equipment, film, and technique; "Journeys," merging visions with realities; and "Realizations," communicating one's worldview through photography. Throughout, Rowell includes examples of some of his most memorable images and relates fascinating anecdotes from his extraordinary photographic career. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Workman Publishing, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Pictorial boards, 150 pages illustrated in color. Design is all around you. And whether you realize it or not, you are already a designer. In Go, renowned graphic designer Chip Kidd explains not just the elements of design, including form, line, color, scale, typography, and more, but most important, how to use those elements in creative ways. Like putting the word "go" on a stop sign, Go is all about shaking things up.Kidd writes about scale: When a picture looks good small, don't stop there--see how it looks when it's really small. Or really big. He explains the difference between vertical lines and horizontal lines. The effect of cropping a picture to make it beautiful--or, cropping it even more to make it mysterious and compelling. How different colors signify different moods. The art of typography, including serifs and sans serifs, kerning and leading. The book ends with ten hands-on design projects for kids. Clean copy.

Softcover. Belmont, CA, Wadsworth Thompson, 1st, 2003 , Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, 378 pages. Softcover. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Wrapper excellent, like new. Pages clean and unmarked. Binding tight. Looks nearly new and barely used. designed for both beginning and advances drawing classes, this best seller explores all topics, media, and techniques that guide students in mastering basic skills and using those skills creatively and expressively.

Hardcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics, 1st, 2025, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial boards. The first of a new six-volume series collecting the sketches and notes behind Hal Foster's creation of the Prince Valiant comic strip. In the works for several years, Hal Foster's Prince Valiant Sketchbooks: An Illustrated Memoir presents never-before-published Prince Valiant art by the strip's legendary creator, Hal Foster, collected in a series of six annotated portfolio volumes. Part sketchbooks, part biography, part tutorial, part memoir-Hal Foster's Prince Valiant Sketchbooks is an unprecedented look into Foster's personal life and creative process during his final nine years on the strip. It's also a fascinating look behind the curtains as Foster coached and interacted with his chosen successor: John Cullen Murphy. Produced with the full permission and participation of the Foster and Murphy families, this series is a testament to author and Prince Valiant historian Brian M. Kane's research prowess and determination to bring Hal Foster's creative process to light. This uniquely intimate view of Foster's creative process is a long-awaited dream come true for Prince Valiant fans. Over the course of these volumes, Kane annotates with painstaking clarity and thoroughness 366 penciled layout pages, 40 character sketches, and 577 text pages of Foster's descriptions and instructions for each panel. Also featured are an additional 143 pieces of art, mostly by Foster, 100 photographs detailing his life and career, and 123 personal letters and notes, all adding immeasurably to this exploration of Foster's life and art, as well as his collaboration with Murphy. With autographed bookplate signed by Kane. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, reprint, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green boards with beige buckram spine, black lettering on spine and front cover. 425 pages with index. The Artistic Crafts Series of Technical Handbooks. Diagrams by the author and numerous illustrations, colored lithographs and collotype reproductions from ancient examples. Gutter cracked at half-title page, previous owner's name otherwise clean.

Softcover. Santa Monica CA, Arts & Architecture Press, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 172 pages. Building in the hills is an enterprise full of unpleasant surprises and traps just waiting to snare the inexperienced. Arthur Levin, a structural engineer and architect who has been involved in more than 2,000 hillside projects, offers a distillation of his 35 years of experience that will help the uninitiated to avoid the otherwise inevitable pitfalls and traps. The book has many real life examples of the unexpected encounters with unstable land, surface drainage problems, subterranean water, demanding owners, uncooperative building inspectors, inexperienced contractors, and other examples of the author's triumphs and occasional enlightening failures. All of these brief histories are instructive and guaranteed to be of invaluable help to the first or second time hillside designer and builder. More than 110 line drawings illuminate the text.

Softcover. St. Louis MO, Wrought Iron Range Co., reprint, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 212 pages, stiff black card covers. Reprint edition of this combined cookbook and trade catalogue, which changed slightly with each change in stove models. The Model "AB" is the most recent stove depicted on page 12 (circa 1924). Includes recipes for breakfast, beverages, bread, dinner, salads, puddings, and household hints. Prior to and following the recipes is a variety of promotional information about the Wrought Iron Range Company. Illustrated product lists for stoves and accessories, company history, features about prizes and awards, an illustration of their exhibit at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition, as well as references for businesses currently using their products. Previous owner's name on last blank page. Otherwise clean. Binding a little shakey but holding.

Softcover. Rochester, NY, Home Institute, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, stapled 2-color wrappers, 40 page booklet, b&w illustrations throughout. Not credited but presumed the author. Nice period drawings.

Softcover. Portland OR, Timber Press, reprint, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 152 pages, illustrated mostly in b&w, some color. The author gives detailed advice on working in pencil, pen, scraper board, watercolor and gouache, and acrylics; on building up a drawing or painting by stages; on taking measurements and understanding plant structure; on collecting, handling and preserving plant material; and on the use of the hand lens and dissecting microscope. The accurate observation and the techniques that he advocates are equally applicable to the disciplined requirements of providing plates for the scientific press and to illustrations for more popular work or to drawing for pleasure. Essential botanical terms and information are fully explained and illustrated, and there is a glossary. Clean copy.

Softcover. Watkins Glen NY, American Lfe Books, reprint, nd, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, pictorial orange wrappers, facsimile reprint of the 1871 edition, "Sign Writing and Glass Embossing; A Complete Practical Illustrated Manual of the Art" by James Callingham. heavily illustrated with solid introduction, drawing essentials, many different alphabets, numerals and more. Clean, bright copy.