Search Results: Authors starting with H from Palmer Books

New York: Hawthorn Books, Inc, 1960. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/good +. Companion volume to The Concise Encyclopedia of English Pottery and Porcelain. More than 1800 illustrations from photographs and line drawings, including color frontispiece, endpapers, and twenty-three other color plates; bibliography. Illustrates impressed and incised marks, artists marks, and extensive a-z entries on the field of Continental pottery and porcelain. Thick, 8"x10"; 533 pages. Some chipping at edges of dust jacket (in brodart), penciled price on front flap, a little dust and toning overall.

New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1999. Hardcover. Fine/very good +. Published on the occasion of the exhibition The American Century: Art and Culture 1900-2000 at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Folio, 407 pages, heavy, oversized book. Fine in Very Good dust wrapper. Some rubbing and edge wear to the latter.

London: Portman, 1988. Reprint. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. A record of select cabinet-makers, upholsterers, carvers and gilders working in London from 1660-1840. Includes addresses and working dates illustrated by 165 reproductions of makers' trade-cards. Also includes a chapter by R.W. Symonds, F.S.A. on the problem of identification of the furniture, and 52 plates of furniture examples with extensive notes 8.5"x12"; 276 pp. A lovely book, with a price-clipped dust-jacket.

London/New York: Oxford University Press, 1975. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/very good +. various. London Oriental Bibliographies; 8vo.; Vol. 4; 185, [2] pages , [8] leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 cm. Also known as: Japanese books in the S. O. A. S. Library. Red cloth; light green dust wrapper w/red printing. This copy looks to have been relatively unused. Very thorough descriptions of each entry, numerous b/w plates. Contains index of authors, illustrators and print makers, publishers, Kabuki actors appearing in prints, and Kabuki roles mentioned in notes to prints, all in English and Japanese characters.

New York: Dover Publications. Reprint. Paperback. Very Good. Reprint of third revised edition.

London: B. T. Batsford, 1981. First printing. Hardcover. Very Good. Former library book with large sticker on front pastedown and stamp, card and cardholder on first free endpaper. Spine of dust wrapper is sunned, but no markings or taped library mylar and no tears or chipping. Aside from its ex-library markings it looks unused.

London: B.t. Batsford, 1983. First printing. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good. Former library book with large sticker on front pastedown and stamp, card and cardholder on first free endpaper. Spine of dust wrapper is sunned, but no markings or taped library mylar and no tears or chipping. Aside from its ex-library markings it looks unused.

New York: Bramhall House, 1956. Hardcover. Very Good/good +. This book begins with a brief history of English glass-making, with particular reference to the development of England's world-renowned flint-glass, incidentally throwing new light on such details as the terms single and double-flint glass. This is followed by a clear-cut survey of drinking glass forms, in stem, bowl and foot, and of decoration in engraving, cutting, gilding and enamelling, handled plainly but with technical exactitude. Comprehensive accounts of Scottish and Irish glass cover ground that hitherto has been peculiarly subject to neglect and misrepresentation. 408 pages, previous owner's name and address on front pastedown, dust wrapper worn a bit, but in brodart. 2lb