The Origami Forum

Hi all,
I'm new to this world and I'm looking for an idea for a birthday gift.
I would like to gift a book About origami technics, diagram, schema etc...
Do you know which book I can buy for this gift ? Better if it's in Italian but is not a problem also to have it in English.
Thanks a lot to everyone!

Robert J. Lang - Origami Design Secrets 2 (undoubtedly the best book on the subject)

John Montroll - Origami Polyhedra Design

Eric Gjerde - Origami Tessellations

Difficult to advise without more specifics as to recipient's level of folding, favorite type of origami models/favorite category of origami, ie- representational , tessellations, modular etc.

Anna's suggestion of R. Lang's Origami Design Secrets 2 is excellent, but, practically speaking, may be intimidating to a beginner .

I would lean toward the " must-have " books .
Brilliant Origami - David Brill
Genuine Origami - Jun Maekawa
Works of Hideo Komatsu
Works of Seiji Nishikawa
Creative origami - Seo Won Seon & Lee In Kyung ( Red and White Paper )

Finally, a yearly subscription to Italy's origami magazine would surely be appreciated throughout the year .
http://www.origami-cdo.it/

"Works of Hideo Komatsu" is the best origami book I've ever seen. And that's with a library of 400+ books to compare with.

I'd cordially disagree with the previous posters-- IMHO it should go something like this:
1) Works of Hideo Komtasu
2) Origami Insects II (Lang and Kawahata)
3) Origami for the Connoisseur (Takahama and Kasahara)
4) Works of Satoshi Kamiya 2
5) Genuine Origami (Jun Maekawa, english version)
6) Origami Polyhedra Design (Montroll)

I'd also include something by Tomoko Fuse, though I don't have enough of her books to know which one is the best (she's written a lot!). Nonetheless I've enjoyed "Unit Origami: Multidimensional Transformations" quite a lot.

I'm tempted to include Origami Master Class: Bugs in this list, but I drew one of the diagrams in that book, so maybe I should be more humble and keep my mouth shut...