Art Instruction

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. Mountain View CA, Pacific Press Publishing Association, 1st, 1933, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 398 pages. Beautifully illustrated with numerous color and black-and-white plates. Original art deco two-tone cloth stamped in black and gilt and publisher's paper label laid on. Clean yellow and white patterned end papers. The page block is tight and straight and illustrated throughout in attractive color and b&w designs, patterns, drawings and figures. Previous owner's name, mild stain on dedication page, otherwise clean.

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. 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. 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.

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. 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. 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.

Hardcover. US, Titan Books, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 128 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Black and white pictures throughout.

Hardcover. New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 320 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. Illustrated with full-color reproductions of the artists' works, including some that have been published and others not originally intended for publication, such as sketchbooks and personal projects. Additional illustrations show behind-the-scenes working processes of the cartoonists and particular works by others that have influenced or inspired them. Through the eyes of these artists, we see with a new clarity the achievement of contemporary cartoonists and the extraordinary possibilities of comic art.

Hardcover. New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 320 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. Illustrated with full-color reproductions of the artists' works, including some that have been published and others not originally intended for publication, such as sketchbooks and personal projects. Additional illustrations show behind-the-scenes working processes of the cartoonists and particular works by others that have influenced or inspired them. Through the eyes of these artists, we see with a new clarity the achievement of contemporary cartoonists and the extraordinary possibilities of comic art.

Softcover. np, self-published, 1st, 2003, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Gray and b&w illustrated wraps with black lettering. 82 pages. B&W and color illustrations. "This catalogue includes the graphic works of Josef Jackerson made during the 1975-1983 period, categorized into series by theme or manner of execution. Light wear, musty odor.

Hardcover. Tokyo/NY, Kodansha International, reprint, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 256 pages. Nineteen kata ("forms") of karate, the art of self-defense without weapons, are presented here in complete detail. They are the ones selected by the great master and teacher, Gichin Funakoshi, to give comprehensive training in Karate-do, the way of karate. Fully illustrated demonstrations by the translator cover not only every technique of the kata but also the fundamentals and applications: how to make a fist; the correct form of the open hand; preliminary training in blocking, striking and kicking; the seven stances; and sparring. The author presents, besides kata that he himself originated, beginning and advanced kata from both the Shorei school and the Shorin school, the former remarkable for their forcefuless and development of strength, the latter characterized by their gracefulness and lightning swiftness. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Tokyo/NY, Kodansha International, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 119 pages, b&w illustrations. Karate-do Nyumon literally means a passage through the gates of the Karate way--in other words, an introduction to the world of Karate. Karate-do Nyumon is the result of Master Funakoshi's wish to clarify Karate thought and practice for those who know nothing about it. It comprises unpublished writings from the years before his death in 1957, together with simplified kata--sequences of movements--synthesized by Funakoshi from the traditional Okinawa Karate-do kata, for beginners.Master Funakoshi begins by exploding some of the myths of Karate- "Karate-do is a noble martial art, and the reader can rest assured that those who take pride in breaking boards or smashing tiles, or who boast of being able to perform outlandish feats like stripping flesh or plucking out ribs, really know nothing about karate. They are playing around in the leaves and branches of a great tree, without the slightest concept of the trunk." Clean copy.

Hardcover. Berlin, Julius Springer, reprint, 1910, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, tan cloth stamped in dark brown, 337 pages. Illustrated with 500 text drawings and 6 2-color plates in rear. A detailed study of perspective. GERMAN TEXT. light stamping to endpaper, title page, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Watson-Guptill, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial boards with a gray cloth spine. The practice of drawing distilled to its essential elements. The companion DVD enclosed inside, beautifully filmed in Florence, Italy, provides real-time drawing lessons so that any gaps in the learning process are filled in with live instruction.  In this elegant and inspiring primer, master contemporary artist and author Juliette Aristides breaks down the drawing process into small, manageable lessons; introduces time-tested principles and techniques that are easily accessible; and shares the language and context necessary to understand the artistic process and create superior, well-crafted drawings. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Van Nostrand Reinhold , 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 174 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Yellow cloth covers, dark yellow dust jacket, 207 b&w illustrated figures. Light edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket, light edgewear to covers, pages crisp and unmarked, tight binding.

Softcover. London UK, Winsor & Newton Ltd., reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 20 page booklet, light gray wrappers. First published in 1892 it covers all technical aspects and chemistry of the manufacturer's oil and watercolor paints. No date, probably 1970s.