Vivien Halas

Paul Wells

Nick Park

Of you ever wanted to know about animations studios that are not Disney, how they sturggled what films they made and how? Or you just are a big fan of the animated Animal farm from 1954 this book os a great resource. Also has a cd/dvd in the back? I never open it, great find. 

Oversized Paperback (4 to 6 lbs)

Georgia

An Animated History

This richly illustrated book is a part-history, part-tribute, part-critical analysis of the Halas and Batchelor Cartoon Studio, Britain's leading and most influential animation company for over 50 years between 1940-1995. It draws on the archives of the Halas & Batchelor Collection and looks at the key works of the studio, including Animal Farm, Britain's first full-length animated feature; The Tales of Hoffnung, with the legendary Peter Sellers; the cult classics Autobahn, featuring the music of Kraftwerk, and Butterfly Ball, with the works of the Beatles illustrator.

Halas and Batchelor Cartoons

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Peter C. Marzio

This is an old book, it has the old books smell. It was given with love to a Dianna and Jack, inscribed on the authors page. If you like old comics and want to learn about old artists this boom os a true find. 

Oversized Hardcover (4 to 6 lbs)

His Life and Work

Rube Goldberg

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J. P. Telotte

This is a well kept paperback, it is a used book and had a book mark on the bottom papers marked out with shaprie, butthe pages are clean and white. Good read. 

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Disney and Technology

Throughout Disney's phenomenally successful run in the entertainment industry, the company has negotiated the use of cutting-edge film and media technologies that, J. P. Telotte argues, have proven fundamental to the company's identity. Disney's technological developments include the use of stereophonic surround sound for Fantasia, experimentation with wide-screen technology, inaugural adoption of three-strip Technicolor film, and early efforts at fostering depth in the animated image. Telotte also chronicles Disney's partnership with television, development of the theme park, and depiction of technology in science-fiction narratives. An in-depth discussion of Disney's shift into digital filmmaking with its Pixar partnership and an emphasis on digital special effects in live-action films, such as the Pirates of the Caribbean series, also highlight the studio's historical investment in technology. By exploring the technological context for Disney creations throughout its history, The Mouse Machine illuminates Disney's extraordinary growth into one of the largest and most influential media and entertainment companies in the world.

Hardbook is unjacketed.

The Mouse Machine

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John Culhane

The book jacket is a bit nitted, the the interior is good. A great resource of the first Fantasia movie. 

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Noted film historian John Culhane tells the story behind the creation of Fantasia, using a wealth of memorable illustrations, including actual frames from the classic film.

Walt Disney's Fantasia

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Ted Sennett

The book jacket is gone, so the white cover has some dirt and pencil marks. But the inside is full of clear print histroy of all your favoirte Hanna Barbera cartoons. 

Fifty Years of Creativity

Traces the history of the animation art of Hanna and Barbera from their beginning in the 1930s to the present.

The Art of Hanna-Barbera

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Cynthia O'Neill

The book is good but the cover jacket has some bending and yellowing. The interior is clear and pristine. 

The Ultimate Visual Guide

An illustrated overview of many aspects of the history of Walt Disney's empire, including his early years, favorite characters, movies and television productions, Disneyland and other theme parks, and the Disney cruise line.

Disney

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A Barnes and Noble  reprint if the original text. 

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

The Original 1920 Girl Scout Handbook

Scouting for Girls

Simon Louvish

Frank Ferrante

Titbits and funny sayings from the great Groucho Marx. 

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Meet Groucho Marx by a miracle of time travel. Sit back and enjoy his hilarious showbiz tales and his surreal flights of fantasy. A fictional dialogue based on biographical facts.

Coffee with Groucho

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A collection of letters from the great Groucho Marx to his daughter. Collected and published by her to show a different side of the quick witted comedian, king of the zingers. 

This vook is severl years old in good condition but some yellowing of the pages. Reprint 1992. 

Letters from Groucho Marx to his Daughter Miriam

Love Groucho

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Rumiko Takahashi

Now that Ranma and Akane are engaged there is no stopping the multiple suitors that try to break them up, Upperclassman Kuno won't stop interupting at the worst times, and the Ramen Shop race rounds out the book in another anything goes fight for the prize. 

When Genma took baby Ranma away from his mother, he made her a solemn promise that the boy would grow up manly. What will happen when she shows up on the Tendo Dojo doorstep and finds her son in girls' clothes and her husband as a panda?

Ranma 1/2, vol .5

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The water has broken in the Tendo household so everyone must go to the public baths, hilarity ensues when hot and cold water can change your body into something completely different. And now you aren't the only one! 
Ranma can only hope those anything goes fighing skills can keep him ahead of the geezers and the spa leaky faucets. 
There is a crease in the back cover but it lays flat and I didnt notice it before posting. 

Ranma 1/2, vol .6

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Volume Seven continues the story of Ranma 1/2 his father and his finace Akane as they try to win a trip to China, by putting on the play Romeo and Juliet. Let the anything goes fighting style main character turn this manag upside down again. 

A Japanese martial arts father-and-son team are forever altered by a visit to the cursed Chinese training grounds Jusenkyo. Whenever Ranma is splashed with cold water, he becomes a red-haired female version of himself. His father turns into a giant panda with each splash. Hot water reverses the effect, but only until they touch cold water again.In this seventh volume of Takahashi's entertaining series, Ranma, Akane, and their friends discover that the prize for the best performance in the school production of Romeo and Juliet is a trip to China. Akane lands the role of Juliet. While Ranma longs to kiss sweet Juliet, he must first contend with a batch of poisoned cookies whipped up by the twisted Kodachi Kuno.

Ranma 1/2, vol .7

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Nicholas Negroponte

This is a book about the coming digital revolution that we are living in today. Mr. Negroponte has positive outlook and interesting digital predictions from the late ninites that are very interesting to look back now.  It helps some of us to look positively toward technology as it continues to progress. 

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • "Succinct and readable.... If you suffer from digital anxiety ... here is a book that lays it all out for you." --Newsday In lively, mordantly witty prose, Negroponte decodes the mysteries--and debunks the hype--surrounding bandwidth, multimedia, virtual reality, and the Internet, and explains why such touted innovations as the fax and the CD-ROM are likely to go the way of the BetaMax.

Being Digital

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Mark Stephen Smith

This is a great book about the animation process and the beginning of the digital animation. In good condition and some historical perspectives. 

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Creative Cartooning

Part animation guide, part Flash manual, The Art of Flash Animation: Creative Cartooning provides a practical primer on classic, hand-drawn 2D screen animation as well as an introduction to using Flash for creating your own cartoons. Section I discusses the terms and techniques of hand-drawn animation, character design, and storyboards, while Section II covers scanning, digitizing your artwork into Flash, and setting up scenes. Topics include how to animate a walk cycle; recording and editing dialogue, sound effects, and music; how to use recyclable symbols to make the animation process more efficient; preparing your work for video or web download.

The Art of Flash Animation

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David B. Levy

This is a great book about how to approach your career in art and animation. In good condition and some historical perspectives. 

How to Survive and Thrive

The author offers advice for starting a career in animation gained from interviews with animators of such shows as "The Incredibles" and "SpongeBob SquarePants."

Your Career in Animation

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A straight forward book to learn chinese charcaters. Helped a lot for a short trip to China. 

(HSK Levels 1-3) a Revolutionary New Way to Learn the 800 Most Basic Chinese Characters; Includes All Characters for the AP and HSK 1-3 Exams

This user-friendly book is aimed at helping students of Mandarin Chinese learn and remember Chinese characters.

At last--there is a truly efficient and enjoyable way to learn Chinese characters! This book helps students to learn and remember both the meanings and the pronunciations of over 800 characters. This otherwise daunting task is made more accessible by the use of techniques based on the psychology of learning and memory. Fundamental principles include the use of visual imagery, the visualization of short "stories," and the systematic building up of more complicated characters from basic building blocks.

Although Learning Chinese Characters is a comprehensive book intended for students, it can be used by anyone with an interest in Chinese characters, without any prior knowledge of Chinese. It can be used alongside (or after, or even before) a course in the Chinese language. All characters are simplified (as in mainland China) but traditional characters are also given, when available.

Key features:
 * Specially designed pictures and stories are used in a structured way to make the learning process more enjoyable and effective, reducing the need for rote learning to the absolute minimum.
 * The emphasis throughout is on learning and remembering the meanings and pronunciations of the characters. Tips are also included on learning techniques and how to avoid common problems.
 * Characters are introduced in a logical sequence, which also gives priority to learning the most common characters first.
 * Modern simplified characters are used, with pronunciations given in pinyin. Key information is given for each character, including radical, stroke-count, traditional form, compounds, and guidance on writing the character.


This is a practical guide with a clear, concise and appealing layout, and it is well-indexed with clear lookup methods. The 800 Chinese characters and 1,033 compounds specified for the original HSK Level A proficiency test are covered.

Learning Chinese Characters

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This book is about the business history of animation. It is an excellent read for people interested in how the animation industry became what it is today. 

The Art and Commerce of Animation in America from Betty Boop to Toy Story

Charts the evolution of animation with the intention of decoding the social history of cartoons. The author reappraises classic characters, suggests reasons for how animation became a box office success and why it is currently enjoying a renaissance.

Serious Business

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Textbook for graphic design. #graphicdesign

Art, Music, Drama/Theater

Understanding Graphic Design

Steven Heller and Karen Pomeroy create a mosaic of design stories that offer a series of valuable lessons in how design works and an engaging history of graphic design from the late nineteenth century to the present. Tracing the development of each work, Heller and Pomeroy explain its role in design history and how it relates to the cultural milieu from which it emerged.

Design Literacy

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#ballettextbook #dancehistory #dancearts #dance #ballet #performanceeducation this book has some bent covers but over all is in good condition.

Source Readings in Dance History from 1581 to the Present

A compelling and detailed "living history," this book chronicles dance through the writings of its greatest innovators.

Dance As a Theatre Art

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#artofshrek #shrek1 #dreamworks #3D #animationhistory some stretching on the front book jacket. 

From the Swamp to the Screen

Based on a children's book by William Steig (who died this past October), Shrek (and its upcoming sequel, Shrek II), are offbeat fairy-tale adventures about a big green ogre, his chattering sidekick Donkey, a feisty princess named Fiona, and a power-hungry ruler named Lord Farquaad. In this book, the four main characters have a chance to tell all - about the trials and tribulations of making the movies, the clash of egos, the scenes that didn't work - in their own words. But the human participants (writers, directors, animators, production designers) have their say too, describing the painstaking process of inventing and animating an imaginary world from scratch. The book will have both an entertaining narrative and a trove of facts and trivia, presented with a wealth of illustrations documenting the films from conception to the screen.

Shrek

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#animationhistory #warnerbrothers #Published1988 #RayBradbury #StevenSchneider #2D  Some damp pages dried and pressed near the end of the book, but no discoloration. For how old it is, it is in ptetty good shape. 

The Art of the Warner Brothers Animation

For three generations of fans comes the first book to celebrate the unique achievements and beloved menagerie created by the inimitable Warner Borthers animation studio. Not even Walt Disney has produced a more popular and brilliantly witty oeuvre of cartoon shorts (as was written in Newsweek recently, Disney cartoons may have been more beautiful; Warner's cartoons were always more interesting.). 100 line drawings, 255 full-color illustrations.

That's All, Folks

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#travelsized #mandarin #englishtochinese #phrasebook some yellowing on page edges. But other than that good condition. 

A reference guide

Hundreds of useful phrases at your fingertips

Speak Chinese - instantly!

Traveling to China but don't know Chinese? Taking Chinese at school but need to kick up your conversation skills? Don't worry! This handy little phrasebook will have you speaking Chinese in no time.

Discover how to

 * Get directions, shop, and eat out
 * Talk numbers, dates, time, and money
 * Chat about family and work
 * Discuss sports and the weather
 * Deal with problems and emergencies

Chinese Phrases for Dummies

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#mandarin #pinyan #pronunciationguide #englishtochinese #smallsize #travelfriendly

One of the biggest obstacles you face when learning a new language is the fear of embarassment when you mispronounce a word or phrase - which inevitably anyone new to Chinese will do. The innovative teachers at Easily Pronounced Language Systems knock down this barrier with their revolutionary pronunciation system.

Say It Right in Chinese

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#adulteducation #historicalcomic #LarryGonick This is the newest of the three cartoon histories and has no yellowed pages. 

From the Rise of Arabia to the Renaissance

A cartoon journey through the history of the universe from the big bang through the rise and fall of civilizations

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Rube Goldberg

J. P. Telotte

The Mouse Machine

John Culhane

Walt Disney's Fantasia

Ted Sennett

The Art of Hanna-Barbera

Cynthia O'Neill

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Scouting for Girls

Simon Louvish; Frank Ferrante

Coffee with Groucho

Edited by Miriam Marx

Love Groucho

Rumiko Takahashi

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Rumiko Takahashi

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Rumiko Takahashi

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Being Digital

Mark Stephen Smith

The Art of Flash Animation

David B. Levy

Your Career in Animation

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Serious Business

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Chinese Phrases for Dummies

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Say It Right in Chinese

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