Charles F. Stuckey

The Selected Writings show the changing critical understanding of Monet's work during the past century. The reproductions are vivid and the book is enhanced with a thoughtful introduction by Charles F Stuckey.

Oversized Hardcover (4 to 6 lbs)

Iowa

A Retrospective

Claude Monet (1840--1926) was both the most typical and the most individual painter of impressionism. His long life and extraordinary work capacity--coupled with a sometimes furious perfectionism--he dedicated to a pictorial exploration of the sensations which reality, and in particular landscape, offer the human eye. This book has 132 color and 119 black-and-white photos. It is based on years of intensive research, selection, and translation, in Europe and the United States.

Monet

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Alberto Manguel

Gianni Guadalupi

With over 200 original illustrations and maps, this remarkable book catalogs the imaginary worlds of a vast range of writers. A browser's delight and 1st Class reference tool that manages to be delightful and entertaining throughout the Dictionary of Imaginary Places will bring back memories of favorite realms and lure you to lands unknown.

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Expanded Edition 

Includes 1500 entries and 400 illustrations, and discusses such exotic places as Dracula's Castle, Toad Hall, the Coast of Coromandel, and Middle Earth

The Dictionary of Imaginary Places

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This sketchbook gives you the opportunity to learn how Harper captured his subjects with the fewest possible visual elements. For each of the 28 birds featured herein, we've included a four page presentation. On the first page you will find line drawings that show a three stage process for recreating Harper's image. The line drawings build on each other. The first one presents the most basic shapes, second further develops the form of the bird, and the third completes the image with all the details.

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

How to Draw 28 Birds in Harper's Style

Charlie Harper Sketchbook

J. L. Locher

MC Escher's art, with its extraordinary manipulations of space-time, and perspective, becomes ever more popular and sought after, But the man himself has remained remote, even enigmatic. Here, at last, is a full-fledged. geography as well as a complete record of his graphic work.

Life and Work

The Abradale Press (Abrams' promotional book imprint) reprint of the work originally published by Abrams in 1982--and still in BIP at $65.00. Faithfully reprints the original at a modest price. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

M. C. Escher

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Warren Ellis

Ben Templesmith

Volume one of the Warren Ellis and Ben Templesmith Graphic Novel with single issues #1,3-4

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Feral City

Detective Richard Fell is transferred over the bridge from the big city to Snowtown, a collapsing urban trashzone. In a place where nothing seems to make any sense, Fell clings to the one thing he knows to be true: everybody's hiding something.

Fell Volume 1

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Welcome to Hoxford TPB with additional single issue #1

Welcome to Hoxford 

Stephanie von Reiswitz

Only Madea Thorne can solve these puzzling cases. She's one of the world's greatest detectives, after all. But every brilliant detective needs a clever sidekick, And that's where you come in. As Miss Thorne's assistant, you'll meet colorful characters, including Deep Sea Diver Perseverance Cragspur, ghost hunter, Augustin Artland, and Leonard Fashaw, who brought pickled cucumbers to the annual Perfect Pickled Foods Festival. But who put poison in the jam? Who changed the crossword? Clues to death threats? And which member of the Aesthetic society is guilty of murder?

20 Mysterious Cases to Solve (Murder Mystery Game, Adult Board Games, Mystery Games for Adults)

The game is afoot! This sumptuously illustrated book invites readers to play detective and solve 20 murder mystery–themed puzzles.

Murder Most Puzzling

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Nearly 150 years ago, Chief Seattle, a respected and peaceful leader of one of the Northwest Indian Nations, delivered a message to the government in Washington who wanted to buy his people's land. He believed that all life on earth, and the earth itself, is sacred.

Paintings by Susan Jeffers

Brother Eagle, Sister Sky 

Elise Maclay

Can you find the hidden stories and pictures in these paintings of Native Americans and the Western wilderness? Bev Doolittle, the world's premier camouflage artist, is known for her exquisite paintings, which are historically accurate and layered with stories and hidden pictures which delight children and adults alike.

This collection of paintings of the western wilderness and the accompanying text invite the reader to see the natural world through the eyes of Native Americans.

 Bev Doolittle The Forest Has Eyes

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Jim Woodring

A Frank Comic

For over 20 years now, Jim Woodring has delighted, touched, and puzzled readers around the world with his lush, wordless tales of “Frank.” Weathercraft is Woodring’s first full-length graphic novel set in this world—indeed, Woodring’s first graphic novel, period!—and it features the same hypnotically gorgeous linework and mystical iconography. As it happens, Frank has only a brief supporting appearance in Weathercraft, which actually stars Manhog, Woodring’s pathetic, brutish everyman (or everyhog), who had previously made several appearances in “Frank” stories (as well as a stunning solo turn in the short story “Gentlemanhog”). After enduring 32 pages of almost incomprehensible suffering, Manhog embarks upon a transformative journey and attains enlightenment. He wants to go to celestial realms but instead altruistically returns to the unifactor to undo a wrong he has inadvertently brought about: The transformation of the evil politician Whim into a mind-destroying plant-demon who distorts and enslaves Frank and his friends. The new and metaphysically expanded Manhog sets out for a final battle with Whim... Weathercraft also co-stars Frank’s cast of beloved supporting characters, including Frank’s Faux Pa and the diminutive, mailbox-like Pupshaw and Pushpaw; it is both a fully independent story that is a great introduction to Woodring’s world, and a sublime addition to, and extension of, the Frank stories.

Weathercraft

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Tim Burton

And Other Stories

A bizarre menagerie of characters--including Oyster Boy, Brie Boy, Match Girl, and Stick Boy--search for love and understanding in a world that does not comprehend oddities

The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy

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Joss Whedon

Zack Whedon

Dr Horrible And Other Horrible Stories, Fray, Serenity Float Out, Serenity Those Left Behind 

Based on the Emmy Award-winning web series Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog, this collection of stories written by Zack Whedon (Deadwood, Fringe) chronicles some of the earliest adventures in the lives of archenemies Captain Hammer and Dr. Horrible. This anthology solves many unanswered questions left over from the show. For instance: What event inspired Dr. Horrible to become the world's greatest criminal mastermind? Why is Penny, the beautiful girl from the Laundromat, still single? How can you, the reader, be like blustering do-gooder Captain Hammer? And why is Horrible's sidekick, Moist, so . . . um . . . well, you'll find out! * Collects the first issue of Dr. Horrible with all three digital comics from MySpace Dark Horse Presents. * Includes a never-before-seen sixteen-page story, about the top secret organization The Evil League of Evil. * Dark Horse's Dr. Horrible iTunes app rose to number one in twenty-four hours, Beating out the Bible and Dr. Seuss!

Joss Whedon Graphic Novel Bundle 

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Matt Hawkins

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

25 Designer Toys to Cut Out and Build

Join the Papertoy Revolution! This is a collection of 26 of the coolest designer paper toys in existence, ready to be cut out and built. Each papertoy has step-by-step instructions, complete with easy-to-use diagrams, so even a novice will be able to make amazing papertoys with the help of a pair of scissors and a few dabs of glue. Interviews with contributors such as Shin Tanaka, Ben the Illustrator, NiceBunny, Cubotoy and Kenn Munk are included. You'll find out more about where their ideas came from—and they might even inspire you to create your own papertoy! In addition, there is a foreword by Andy Heng from www.toysrevil.net. The DVD includes lots of bonus features, such as all 26 toy templates in PDF format (so you can build cities full of papertoys); basic shapes (so you can learn the building blocks of papertoys); blank templates (so you can create your own "skin"); longer, unabridged interviews with all the designers in the book; and 33 bonus templates. So grab your scissors, your glue and your imagination, and get ready to enter an inspiring new world of papertoys!

Urban Paper

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Duy Nguyen

Paper Folding for Your Inner Monster

Look out--monsters are arising from the graveyard eager to crush skulls, eat brains, and drink blood! Created by tried-and-true origami author Duy Nguyen as a follow-up to his popular Zombigami, these 13 ghoulishly gruesome origami monsters are all ready to cause mayhem. Nguyen's fun creature-feature stars such favorites as Dracula, the Mummy, Wolf Man, and even the Headless Horseman. This cool kit includes everything you need to start folding: 50 sheets of origami paper and very detailed instructions on how to make them. Fold at your own risk!

Monstergami

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Richard Stark

Darwyn Cooke

The Hunter, the first book in the Parker series, is the story of a man who hits New York head-on like a shotgun blast to the chest. Betrayed by the woman he loved and double-crossed by his partner in crime, Parker makes his way cross-country with only one thought burning in his mind - to coldly exact his revenge and reclaim what was taken from him!Richard (Donald Westlake) Stark's groundbreaking Parker books are adapted for the first time as a series of graphic novels by Darwyn Cooke. The initial installment brings to life the first Parker book, The Hunter, which introduces readers to the dangerous anti-hero's cold and calculated world of criminals, thugs, and grifters.

Richard Stark's Parker: the Hunter

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Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Darwyn Cooke is the Eisner Award-winning writer/artist of such classics as DC: The New Frontier, Selina's Big Score, and last year's smash-hit, The Hunter. Now, Cooke is back and following up the New York Times best-selling Hunter with a heart-pounding sequel: The Outfit. After evening the score with those who betrayed him, and recovering the money he was cheated out of from the syndicate, Parker is riding high, living in swank hotels and enjoying the finer things in life again. Until, that is, he's fingered by a squealer who rats him out to the Outfit for the price they put on his head and they find out too late that if you push Parker, it better be all the way into the grave! Darwyn Cooke is an Eisner- and Emmy-winning creator whose adaptation of Richard Stark's first groundbreaking Parker novel has earned him multiple 2010 Eisner Award nominations! Parker: The Outfit is the latest offering in IDW Publishing's series of Digital Graphic Novels. We've assembled the best of favorite brands and respected creators for you to collect on your digital bookshelf. Story and art: Darwyn Cooke Editor: Scott Dunbier Features: - Page by page viewing, pinch and zoom for details - Tap user controls or swipe to turn pages - "See all" table of contents keywords: Darwyn, Cooke, Richard, Stark, Westlake, comic, graphic, novel, crime

Richard Stark's Parker: the Outfit

Al Chung-liang Huang

The Essence of Tai Ji

Embrace Tiger, Return to Mountain

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Andy Smith

Tips and step by step directions on drawing comics in action 

Using a fresh approach to creating comics, this book shows artists of all ages and talent levels how to build basic figures into stylized characters, set them in action, and add story-telling backgrounds. Some of today's hottest young professionals share their tips. 310 illustrations, 10 in color.

Drawing Dynamic Comics

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Offers step-by-step instructions for drawing faces, anatomy, creating emotion, and drawing figures in action settings 

Action! Cartooning 

Burne Hogarth

Praised by critics and teachers alike for more than 40 years, Burne Hogarth's Dynamic Anatomy is recognized worldwide as the classic text on artistic anatomy. Now revised, expanded to include 65 never-before-published drawings from the Hogarth archives, and completely redesigned, this award-winning reference explores the expressive structure of the human form specifically from the artist's, rather than the medical anatomist's, point of view. The 350 remarkable illustrations-150 now in full color-explain the proportions and anatomical details of male and female figures in motion and at rest, always stressing the living form in space. Meticulous diagrams and fascinating action studies examine the rhythmic relationship of muscles and their effect upon surface forms. Still other drawings help artists understand foreshortening and how to establish the figure convincingly in deep space. In addition, the text provides a historical overview that includes works by Michelangelo, Picasso, and other master artists. Dynamic Anatomy presents a comprehensive, detailed study of the human figure as artistic anatomy. By emphasizing the relationship of mass to movement, this time-honored book goes far beyond the factual and technical elements of anatomy to give readers the practical methods they need to draw human figures that come alive on paper.

Drawing Dynamic Hands

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Frank Miller

The armies of Persia - a vast horde greater than any the world has ever known -- are poised to crush Greece, an island of reason and freedom in a sea of madness and tyranny. Standing between Greece and this tidal wave of destruction are a tiny detachment of but three hundred warriors. Frank Miller's epic retelling of history's supreme moment of battlefield valour is finally collected in a glorious hardcover volume.

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Monet

Alberto Manguel; Gianni Guadalupi

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