What fun! It says 'Reshuffle the History of Art 234,256 ways". A take on the exquisite corpse flip-books. Really great gift for YOUR art lover. Have seen this for $40 and up! 

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Massachusetts

Drawn & Quartered: an Art-Lover's Mix and Match 

Wonderful novelty children's book, an Easter basket of colorful egg booklets which is suggested you can hide. Never been opened, you will be the first! Looks like fun, and a nice alternative to jelly beans! 12" x10.5"

The Great Easter Egg Hunt

Brodee Myers-Cooke

Gorgeous gift for your favorite gardener. Imaginative and beautifully illustrated plans of unusual gardens. This copy is as new! 9 1/4" x 8 1/2".

This gorgeously hand-illustrated, imaginatively written book includes innovative ideas for different 'theme' gardens in four categories: Sensory Pleasure, Living Pleasure, Passive Pleasure, and Fun and Functional Gardens. A sensory extravaganza.

Gardens for Pleasure

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Franz Bonn

Unusual 1878 German pop-up reproduction. Lovely diorama detail, four scenes in total, very clean copy.

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

The Children's Theatre

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Saul Steinberg

Cover is fair. A huge collection (200 pages) of Saul Steinberg's quirky, imaginative black and white drawings. You can see modern cartoonists in his work. He was ahead of his time, and mastered the art and beauty of linework. He is famous for his New Yorker covers. Wonderful resource to jog your mind if you are an artist. Penguin books 1976.

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

The Inspector

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Lyonel. Feininger

Cover is in fair condition, inside excellent, bright, clean beautiful colors. Oversized (14 1/4" x 10 3/16") paperback. Unusual cartoon strip 1906-08. Dover used the full original colors in this reprint. Surreal, original, a forgotten masterpiece of cartooning. Caution: some may be offended by its political slant and stereotypes in keeping with the current views of the time. Lower price due to cover condition.

All 31 Strips in Full Color

Masterpiece of comic art. Strange group of enterprising youngsters travels around the world. All 31 strips in full color.

The Kin-der-Kids

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Eric Gill

Christopher Skelton

A beautiful little (4.5 x 6 7/8 in.) book reprinted from the 1931 original. This book would be the perfect gift for anyone in love with typography,  fonts, lettering and printing. It contains a wealth of advice and wisdom drawn from his incredibly diverse creative life. It's one of those books that feels good in your hand.  I see it on sites for $50 and more. This book is in great shape, just the tiniest bit of yellowing 1/8" across the inside flaps.

An Essay on Typography was first published in 1931, instantly recognized as a classic, and has long been unavailable. It represents Gill at his best opinionated, fustian, and consistently humane. It is his only major work on typography and remains indispensable for anyone interested in the art of letter forms and the presentation of graphic information. This manifesto, however, is not only about letters their form, fit, and function but also about man's role in an industrial society. As Gill wrote later, it was his chief object "to describe two worlds that of industrialism and that of the human workman & to define their limits." His thinking about type is still provocative. Here are the seeds of modern advertising unjustified lines, tight word and letter spacing, ample leading. Here, too, is vintage Gill, as polemical as he is practical, as much concerned about the soul of man as the work of man; as much obsessed by the ends as by the means.

Essay on Typography

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Karen Milone

Unusual tribute to LMA's stories. Each month features a diary section, crafts & activities drawn from Alcott's books. Your copy is in fine condition, shrink-wrapped.

A Louisa May Alcott Diary

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Gretchen Anderson

Very sweet cookbook with recipes adapted from 19th century cookbooks from foods mentioned in the Alcott books. Julia Child selected this as a holiday pick the year it was published. 6 3/4" x 8.5".

The Louisa May Alcott Cookbook

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Outlet Book Company Staff

A collection of Kit Williams' unusual portraits,  including his fabulous hand-crafted wood frames that almost surpass his paintings.

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

The Art of Kit Williams

Out of One Eye

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Stephen Silver

Techniques, tips and Tutorials for effective character design. A must-have reference for developing your characters. Great resource! Dinged lower-right corner, but crisp, clean and usused otherwise. 

Techniques, Tips, and Tutorials for Drawing Effective Characters

"Whether you're a professional artist interested in improving your drawing skills, or an aspiring designer fresh out of college looking to add to your portfolio, The Silver Way will help you build your confidence and strengthen your work in order to successfully design characters for any project, in any style. Chock-full of fun drawing techniques and easy-to-follow tutorials, The Silver Way is the kind of educational art book you'll revisit again and again for guidance, encouragement, and inspiration."--

The Ultimate Guide to Character Design with Stephen Silver

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Lars Denicke

Prepare to be dazzled. Character drawings from around the world 'keeping the world human and dirty'. Guaranteed to inspire anyone in character design. Featuring over 200 artists. Beautifully embossed cover. Holidays are coming!

The Character Encyclopaedia

The original, long out-of-print compilation of character design

Pictoplasma

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Deborah Nourse Lattimore

For the fashion historian with a sense of humor!

A Brief History of Underwear

Pop-ups and lifting flaps illustrate factual information about the history of underwear

I Wonder What's under There?

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Helen Ward

Absolutely beautiful unused advent calendar. Accordions out to display a true pageant of animals in their festive dress. A real treat! Would make a wonderful gift.

Christmas Pageant

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Nick Bantock

Weird and wonderful pop-up of a classic. Nick Bantock, known for his Griffin and Sabine series created this little masterpiece.  Tiny foxing.

There Was an Old Lady

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Sara Midda

Breathtaking miniature hand-lettered watercolors from the whimsical mind of Sara Midda. Cover is good, slight wear. If inclined,  these would make fabulous individual matted pieces.

"Sara Midda's richly illustrated In and Out of the Garden has delighted readers and critics alike: "This is the most gentle of books, a peaceful pastime. The delicacy of Sara Midda's art is enchanting. Anyone who is a gardener, or who has worked with plants in nature, will respond to what she has put forth so exquisitely," wrote Joan Lee Faust, Garden Editor of The New York Times. Diana Vreeland praised it as "delightful and delicious," Time magazine as "Cause for revel," and Laura Ashley called it "pure inspiration." In scores and scores of delicate illustrations and tender reflections, the author recalls the English gardens her childhood and the gardens she tends now, to reveal surprises both dainty and daring. The colorings and imaginings make the fancy soar with pleasure, as she creates the most elegant and subtle of books to give and to have, a book to cherish as dearly as a volume of treasured poetry. Sara Midda's garden is sown with glorious images. Ruby-red radishes are the jewels of the underworld. Myriad colors fall upon warm green moss. Brown leaves drift with sweet scent. And "in the beeman's garden, a host of hives and a swarm of bees bring sticky honey for your teas." Vegetable gardens, herb gardens, flower gardens are illustrated. The pleasures of the orchard are celebrated. Recipes are shared for lotions and potions to cheer the heart and delight the senses." -- Publisher.

In and Out of the Garden

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Does anyone remember this phenomenon? Williams created a beautiful piece of jewelry, hid it in the countryside and wrote this book filled with clues.

Masquerade

Sam Piyasena

Beverly Philp

Someone better buy it before I decide to keep it for myself! Terrific and fun for anyone, graphically appealing, excellent resource (and gift)  for that special art teacher. Beautifully designed. 10.25"x8.75"

The World's Most Enjoyable Painting Course. Ever!

For anyone who has ever gazed longingly at a set of artist's paints and brushes in a store and wished that they knew where to begin, this is the book for them. This companion to Barron's Just Draw It! relies on the belief that anyone can paint, and encourages readers to not only learn, but to experiment and play with their art. Every exercise in this unique manual can be performed by artists at all levels of training and ability.


 * All exercises are designed to inspire, motivate, and break down any fears about painting
 * Covers a variety of techniques and approaches to expand and improve painting skills
 * A powerfully effective art course that never feels like a set of tedious drills
   
   Lessons cover a number of subjects, including color, tone, light and shade, compositions, textures, patterns, surface, and paint quality. Illustrations on every page in color and black and white.

Just Paint It!

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A fascinating and detailed history of 31 fashion designers and their personal fragrances from the 1900s on. UK publication. Absolute must for the library of any serious fashion devotee! 11.5" x 9"

Fragrance and Fashion

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Incredible slice of American Illustration, including black and white work by Winsor McKay, Howard Pyle, Peter Newell. Foxing, loose binding, frayed bottom spine, an amazing collection nonetheless.

A Practical Book of Instruction in the Art of Illustration: Presenting Numerous Reproductions of Original Drawings by America's most Famous Illustrators, Cartoonists, and Comic Artists

How to Draw (1904)

1911 Fifth edition, cover and binding worn, but intact. Has been repaired by a bookbinder, so insides are tight. Light foxing to pages.

The Peter Pan Picture Book

Sophie Blackall

Inspiring and beautifully illustrated, Blackall has brought to life the more intriguing search messages from Missed Connections. What art school tries to teach you in 4 years is all here. 

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Love, Lost and Found

In her first book for adults, the artist Sophie Blackall creates a deeply felt, poignant book about love—a book that captures the mystery, the yearning, at times the cosmic humor behind the “what if?” of a missed connection. Like a message in a bottle, a “missed connection" classified (usually posted on a website) is an attempt however far-fetched, by one stranger to reach another on the strength of a remembered glance, smile, or blue hat. The anonymous messages are hopeful and hopeless, funny and sad. Ms. Blackall, award-winning illustrator of Ruby’s Wish and Big Red Lollipop, has turned some of the most evocative (or hilarious) of them into exquisite paintings. Missed Connections is a collection of illustrated love stories. There’s “We Shared a Bear Suit.” “If Not for Your Noisy Tambourine.” “Hairy Bearded Swimmer.” Each is told in the shorthand of a “missed connection,” and then illustrated in Chinese ink and watercolor. The paintings are extraordinary: delicate yet full of feeling, each springing from one little detail of the post into a fully imagined world. Each brings the voyeuristic pleasure of watching love at first sight, and the pleasure of watching an artist discover a fresh new way to tell a story. And not all the connections are missed. Hidden in the book are three pieces that conjure up the magic of love found.

Missed Connections

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This 1998 publication is considered one of the best in learning to work in colored pencil. It thoroughly covers every possible detail about the medium. A real gem.

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Basic lessons in becoming a good artist 

Colored Pencil for the Serious Beginner 

1996 Gallery publication of  exhibition. Clean, tight softcover. Minor crease on front top cover corner. Contains glossary, bibliography and the history of the 1890s color revolution in graphics.

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