First Book Drawing, First Edition (15 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Red cloth with gold lettering, illustrated in color and black & white, 192pp., Full refund if not satisfied. Due to the size and/or weight of this book, additional shipping may be required.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. a nice clean copy inside front cover Palen has written a note to someone he knows and has made a small drawing and signed it.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First. An excellent copy with a nice drawing and the words " Hey Charlene Happy Stampedes" inside first page with Jerry Palen's signature. Drawing is original Ol' Bull Dennis. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Illustrated with numerous black and white diagrams (illustrator). 1st Edition. Ex library edition. Maroon boards with gilt titles. Some handling wear to spine edges with a few marks inside. Front end paper removed with library stamps present on front paste down and the title page.

Decorative Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket/Not Issued. İ Copyright 1958 by Louis Slobodkin. 68 pp. Solidly bound copy with moderate external and overall wear and use. Copy with clean text on crisp and bright pages. Smooth covers. Moderately shelf worn. A couple stains on a few pages. An ex-institutional-library copy (Board of Education, City of New York, New York) with all or some of the typical, common, usual and/or standard signs (stamps, stickers, envelope, etc.). No DJ. Pictures of actual copy -not displayed here!- available upon request.

Condition: Sehr gut. Formateinband: Leinen mit ill. Titelschild und Kordelbindung / gebundene Ausgabe ca. 40 S. (22x30 cm quer) Blue Cover-Edition (Hellblaue Ausgabe); 1st Edition; (With many pictures); Sehr gut erhalten, unausgefüllt. Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 600 [Stichwörter: ].

Hardcover. The product is a rare first printing of "The First Book of Drawing" by Louis Slobodkin, published by Franklin Watts in 1958. This hardcover book, with special attributes of being ex-library, illustrated, and a 1st edition, focuses on the topic of art and is written in English. Perfect for collectors of antiquarian and collectible books, this original edition is a valuable resource for art enthusiasts and those interested in photography.; 18.00 x 13.00 x 3.00.

No Binding. Condition: Good. Archibald Stevenson Forrest (A.S. Forrest), (illustrator). 1st Edition. This is nice original pen & ink Artwork drawing, probably done by Archibald Stevenson Forrest (A.S. Forrest), 1869-1963. Depicting the British explorer John Hanning Speke at the moment he first sighted Lake Victoria (then referred to as Victoria Nyanza) in 1858. This moment was a major milestone in the European "Search for the Source of the Nile." Speke was the first European to reach the lake's shores, and he correctly (though controversially at the time) identified it as the primary reservoir for the Nile River. The artwork was done for the 1908 book "Our Empire Story: Stories of India and the Greater Colonies" by H. E. Marshall. The artwork is on thick art card measuring 10.5 inches by 7.5 inches approx. Some marking to the edges else in good general condition. This is a lighter item, shipping overseas costs will be reduced accordingly at checkout.

Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Cover + Illustrations + Dust Jacket (illustrator). First Edition. First Edition. Original orange cloth, near fine with a scuff below title, titles on both cover and spine, gilt, bright, in a very good price-intact dust jacket with similar tear on front cover with additional wear to extremities. Profusely illustrated and a signed presentation copy: "To Helene. Don Blanding" in blue ink pen to front pastedown and front free end-paper. By Don Blanding.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. SHEPARDSON BOOKSTALL, 20+ YEARS OF EXCELLENCE. Large drawing of Mushroom man with stovepipe and Michael Hague signature is opposite title page (see scan). Signed by Illustrator(s).

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. SHEPARDSON BOOKSTORE, 20+ YEARS OF EXCELLENCE. FULL-PAGE DRAGON DRAWING ON FIRST TITLE PAGE WITH SIGNATURE OF HAGUE. Hague DJ is unclipped; covered in mylar; has short tear on back bottom corner seam. HAGUE color and black/white chapter dragon drawings. A REALLY BEAUTIFUL BOOK. Signed by Illustrator(s).

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. SHEPARDSON BOOKSTORE, 20+ YEARS OF EXCELLENCE. FULL-PAGE DRAWING (plus HAGUE signature) OF FATHER TREE ON VERSO OF FRONT ENDPAPER. Michael Hague DJ unclipped; covered in mylar; has a small area of wrinkling on bottom front. Magnificent color plus pen and ink drawing throughout. A HEIRLOOM QUALITY BOOK. Signed by Illustrator(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Du Bois, William Pene (1916-1993) (illustrator). 1st Edition. Du Bois, William Pene (1916-1993). ORIGINAL PEN & INK AND WATERCOLOR DRAWING BY WILLIAM PENE DU BOIS (1916-1993) PUBLISHED IN HIS BOOK "OTTO AT SEA" (1936); TOGETHER WITH A BOXED SET OF THE FIRST TWO "OTTO" BOOKS, BOTH FIRST EDITIONS, INCLUDING THE ONE IN WHICH THE DRAWING WAS ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED. New York: The Viking Press, 1936. Original watercolor drawing, published on p. [29] in the first edition of OTTO AT SEA (1936), measures 5" x 5" on artist board measuring 5-1/4" x 5-1/4", with minor soiling and spotting, light overall toning, and with a pin hole in each corner confined to the margins, and with adhesive residue to verso. The condition of the drawing is VERY GOOD. RARE; as is any artwork from du Bois' early "Otto" books. Sold together with the two book boxed set "THE OTTO BOOKS ARE HERE!" (1936) as follows: Du Bois, William Pene (1916-1993). GIANT OTTO and OTTO AT SEA. New York: The Viking Press, 1936. FIRST EDITIONS; "First Published October 1936" -- imprint. Square 16mo - 6-3/16" x 6-1/8". Color pictorial paper covered boards. Original publisher's color pictorial stiff paper priced ($.65) dust jackets replicating the design of the books. [40] pp. each. The books tell the story of a really large Otterhound (Giant Otto) and how he became a French hero fighting with the French Foreign Legion in the Sahara Desert. After a hero's return to France, Otto heads to America for a good-will trip. En route, a great storm arose and Otto was once again a hero. GIANT OTTO: extremely minor toning to spine, spotting along the front joint and minute touches of rubbing to head and tail of spine; toning to endpapers; first four leaves with a minor crease to upper fore edge corner, the rest of the book is pristine. Dust jacket with darkening to the spine, minor edge and corner wear, and spotting to upper edge of rear flap. The condition of the book is NEAR FINE. The condition of the dust jacket is VERY GOOD +. OTTO AT SEA: extremely minor toning to spine, spotting along the front and rear joints, and minute touches of rubbing at the corners; toning to endpapers; minor finger soiling to title page and a single spot of foxing to two facing pages, the rest of the book is pristine. Dust jacket with darkening to the spine, spotting to front panel, rubbing and wear to the front flap fold, wear to the spine panel including two short tears to the rear fold. The condition of the book is VERY GOOD +. The condition of the dust jacket is VERY GOOD. The two books are contained within the original publisher's cardboard slipcase, with a large color pictorial paste-on to each main panel, with soiling and wear to the paste-ons and a split to one end of the spine panel. The condition of the original slipcase is GOOD. Only one set of "THE OTTO BOOKS ARE HERE!" located on WorldCat (Toronto Public Library). EXCEEDINGLY RARE. All in all a wonderful offering of early William Pene du Bois (1916-1993) ORIGINAL ARTWORK and FIRST EDITION CHILDREN'S BOOKS.

Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First Edition. First edition. His second collection of poems. INSCRIBED to Pulitzer Prize winner and Poet Laureate Anthony Hecht, "For Tony, with--poems, or no poems--Love [underlined], from Jonathan" beneath which he's sketched a chair and captioned it "Chair, EOS Hotel, Zurich, 21.v.92." Fine in glossy, black, pictorial paperwraps. TOGETHER with SECOND SIGHT, his first collection of poems, selected and with an introduction by Hecht. (NY: Harper & Row, 1982; fine in fine dust jacket). Signed.

Condition: Near Very Good. Will Crawford (illustrator). First Edition. First Edition. Original two-cloth covers, moderately sunned. Interesting presentation copy signed in full by Mackinlay Kantor: "For Elizabeth Sanderson, nee Betty Sanders - Who used to write some mighty good verse - and when will she write some more? 'O Betty, my heart is aching; O Betty, my heart is yearing!' Done on Compo Road, in a perfect blaze of affection, this 29th day of May, 1935 - from MacKinlay Kantor. and send me a copy of the verse." With Kantor's drawing of a man pointing to "Page 45." Page 45 has the poem "Hettie Hooker." On the second black page is the following: "To Betty Sanders. Hell I didn't know her as Betty Sanderson but after all I gave her this tome which I'd have never have done if I'd known she knew the 'author'. One of the reasons one knows authors or perhaps "authors" is so you can get dedication volumes which I have found destroys their value (the volume no the "author".) as ever Uncle Tobias. Quite scarce signed thus. By Author.