The First Book of Drawings by David Victor Sherrod, 1995, Near Fine SC, Signed

David Victor Sherrod. Self Published, 1995. 12" x 9" SC

Near Fine, glossy white paper wraps, featuring David Victor Sherrod's pencil drawing, "Earth Being Spirit" to front cover, SIGNED by the artist at title page, light shelf wear to covers, light bend to corner not creased, else clean, tightly bound, and unmarked throughout. 52 pp. replete with 52 black-and-gray reproductions of the artist's pencil-drawn illustrations. Includes numbered image list, dedications, autobiographical essay titled, "inside the psyche of the creator," which includes a Joseph Campbell quotation, and provides some philosophical insight into the work, a second essay titled, "some gut level across the bones generalizations," and a poem titled, "When Will They Know." From the back cover artist's statement: "With all the color works we have available to us in these contemporary times, black and white still has its place. In certain ways, in terms of line, texture, and contrast, less can truly be more."