Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Hurter, Albert. He Drew As He Pleased: A Sketchbook. Simon and Schuster, New York, 1948.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: mild wear to corners, otherwise a nice, clean, square copy, quarto, beige cloth with brick red title blocks, no jacket, no pagination
Seller: John M. Gram, Port Huron, MI, U.S.A.
Hurter, Albert. He Drew As He Pleased. Simon and Schuster, 1948.
Price: US$158.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: ex library w some stamps to flypages and textblock, heavy shelf wear to cover several stains and some paint marks, slight foxing to textblock, owner plate to flypage, otherwise in very readable solid shape. please feel free to inquire for photos.
Seller: Recycle Bookstore, San Jose, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: ] Hardback, quarto, appx 9 1/8 x 12 1/8 inches, brick red titling on light gray cloth, unpaginated (appx 200 pages), G+/no dj. Snug binding. Top corners bumped (back cover rather light, front cover a moderate bump with top corner effects within through first third of the book). Corners also rubbed through + wear/fraying at the spine-ends & titling a bit faded. Covers on the clean side except ofc small red pencil doodle. No previous owner names but ffep small red pencil doodle + front pastedown (ifc) 2-inch black accidental pen streak & each rear endpaper a small brown spot. Half-title, title page, & interior pages very clean, printed one-color black throughout. Each right-hand page numerous vignette drawings reproduced & about every-other left-hand page a very short cutline caption. At the front: photo portrait of Hurter, 6-pg (triple spaced) Introduction by Ted Sears + brief remark by Walt Disney. Publisher's Acknowledgment at the rear. RWR5 Drawing Cartooning Cartoon Art Walt Disney Studio
Seller: Reiner Books, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.
(Hurter, Albert). He Drew As He Pleased. Simon & Schuster, New York, 1948.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 1st ptg., Small folio, full gray cloth. If you don't know about this book, there's not much we can do to describe it. Hurter's job at Disney was character design and this reproduces scads of his sketchbook pages with anywhere from one to 20 pencil images per page. Everything from concepts for Snow White to Three Little Pigs to what has been described as the prototype for Mr. Natural, plus some of the most surreal images you've yet to imagine. A legend. Faint spotting to spine cloth else fine, no previous owner's marks or dj.
Seller: Bud Plant & Hutchison Books, Cedar Ridge, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$287.50 + shipping
Description: Illus. by author, 12 x 9.25", cloth, unpaginated, covers a bit rubbed and toned, extremities bumped, hinges loose, pp edge-toned, old small inkstamped name on front fly mostly inked out else a nice, clean copy in a rubbed, edge-torn and edge-chipped, extremity-spotted dustjacket.
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
Hurter, Albert. He Drew as He Pleased: A Sketchbook by Albert Hurter. Simon & Schuster, NY, 1948.
Price: US$295.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. Hard cover. Published NY: Simon & Schuster, 1948, first printing. 4to., 9 1/4" x 12 1/4", unpaginated, frontis portrait and illustrated throughout with 700 of Hurter's drawings created for the Walt Disney Studio. Intro by Ted Sears, note by Walt Disney. Hurter's sketches were the foundations for most of the Disney films of the Thirties. He designed characters and settings for Silly Symphonies, Snow White and Seven Dwarfs, Pinocchio, Fantasia and Dumbo. Gray cloth with titles in red reverse block. Light wear at the crown, traces of a few spots on cloth, two tiny spots on front edge of page block, previous owner name on rear pastedown. A very good, attractive copy. Size: 4to
Seller: The Wild Muse, Granville, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$375.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: This work contains 700 of Albert Hurter's inspirational drawings created for the Walt Disney Studio. Hurter was a gifted artist, born in Switzerland and educated in art schools abroad. He entered the animated cartoon field first through the studio of Raoul Barre and later, in 1932, he joined the Walt Disney Studio. There, until his death nine years later, he gave the riches of his talent to one of the most spectacular of modern art forms. In this book, arranged and captioned by Ted Sears, a friend and associate of Hurter's at the Walt Disney Studio, are displyed 700 efforts of the artist's most productive years. The dust jacket is chipped and now in mylar; otherwise, this copy is clean and solid.
Seller: Cornerstone Books, Santa Ana, CA, U.S.A.
(Hurter, Albert). He Drew As He Pleased. Simon & Schuster, New York, 1948.
Price: US$375.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 1st ptg., Small folio, full gray cloth. Hurter's job at Disney was character design and this reproduces scads of his sketchbook pages with anywhere from one to 20 pencil images per page. Everything from concepts for Snow White to Three Little Pigs to what has been described as the prototype for Mr. Natural, plus some of the most surreal images you've yet to imagine. Fine in shabby, price-clipped dj, no previous owner's marks.
Seller: Bud Plant & Hutchison Books, Cedar Ridge, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$399.99 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Yellowing to pages. Droplet sized spill stain to top edge of pages. - Great overall condition. Minor cosmetic wear. No noteworthy blemishes. No writing.
Seller: True Oak Books, Highland, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$527.50 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: Hardcover in dust jacket. First printing of first edition. Green cloth boards, near pristine. Protected, price unclipped, dust jacket clean and bright. Book is firm in binding, As New. "700 inspirational drawings created for the Walt Disney Studio. " A beautiful copy--scarce in this condition. Unpaginated. Free of any markings, not ex-library. ; Folio 13" - 23" tall
Seller: KULTURAs books, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Hurter, Albert. He Drew as he Pleased: a Sketchbook. Simon and Schuster, New York, 1948.
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Unpaginated. "700 of his inspirational drawings created for the Walt Disney Studio" Born 1883 in Switzerland, Hurter was by 1915 ensconced in the fledgling animation industry doing Mutt & Jeff cartoons for Barre-Bowers in New York. In 1930, at the age of 48 he applied for an animation job at the Disney Studios in California. His sketches were the foundations for most of the Disney films of the Thirties, designing characters and settings for Silly Symphonies, Snow White and Seven Dwarfs, Pinocchio, Fantasia, Dumbo, Reluctant Dragon and even films made long after his death. Hurter, in his will, arranged for the publication of this work. He died in 1942. Chips with small missing pieces amd tears to DJ edges. [Loc.20]
Seller: ReREAD Books & Bindery, Little Rock, AR, U.S.A.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 700 of His Inspirational Drawings Created for the Walt Disney Studio. First edition, hardcover, tiny bumps to corners, otherwise a VG+ copy in a bright and clean, but somewhat tattered dustjacket which is missing a large chip at the top of the rear panel and some smaller chips to the bottom edge and corners, jacket folds have small chips and closed tears.
Seller: Fahrenheit's Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.