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Lucky at the used book shop

Posted: May 17th, 2007, 3:00 am
by Pathfinder
I think I got lucky. I went to this used book store and they had about 6 books on origami. Four of them looked like real beginner stuff but two of them looked good. So I bought them. I spent $4 on the "Origami Animals" by Robert J. Lang and $6 for "The World of Origami" by Isao Honda.

Anybody have a review of these two books or the authors?

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Posted: May 17th, 2007, 4:56 am
by Joe the white
Excellent choices, and great prices.

Robert Lang has a website: http://www.langorigami.com/
Hes an excellent designer, and has progressed in technique and complexity since that book, hes also a nice guy in person. Its neat to follow his work from "The Complete Book of Origami" up to "Origami Design Secrets" and "Origami Insects II". I think this is his only out-of-print book.

Isao Honda is more of a classic. Some of his books contain works of the late Master Akira Yoshizawa. If its the particular book I'm thinking of, it has many older models in it.

Posted: May 17th, 2007, 10:47 pm
by denori
Yep. Those two for $10 would definitely class as a score!
'Paper Animals' seems to be particularly tricky to find. It's a book I haven't seen for sale (or I'd have a copy!).
My own lucky second hand find was Robert Harbins 'Origami 4' for $3 (CDN) while on holiday in Vancouver. :D

As for reviews, check out Gilad Aharoni's site http://www.giladorigami.com/

If only I could get people to add reviews to the Origami database!