Search Results: Titles starting with E from Palmer Books

New York: Schocken Books, 1980. Later printing. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good +. The first biography of Edward Ardizzone, one of the outstanding book illustrators of the twentieth century. Between 1929 and his death in 1979, he illustrated over 100 books, as well as writing and illustrating children's books. 7.75"x10.25"; 192 pages, a little edgewear to dust jacket (protected in Brodart), normal shelfwear.

Collector Books, 2005. Eleventh edition. Hardcover. New. This eleventh edition holds more than 100 new photographs, listings, and updated values. Featured is the handmade and acid-etched glassware that was sold in department and jewelry stores from the Depression era through the 1950s, not the dimestore and giveaway items known as Depression glass. As always, glassware authorities Gene and Cathy Florence have added many new discoveries, 12 additional patterns, and re-photographed many items from the previous books. Large group settings are included for each of the more than 100 patterns, as well as close-ups to show pattern details. The famous glassmakers presented include Fenton, Cambridge, Heisey, Tiffin, Imperial, Duncan & Miller, U.S. Glass, and Paden City. The Florences provide a list of all known pieces, with colors and measurements, along with 2005 values. AUTHORBIO: A collector since childhood, Gene Florence's hobby of buying and selling glassware turned into a full-time career.… Read More

London: Phaidon Inc Ltd, 1993. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. From woodwork to moulding, this fascinating pictorial look at English architecture in the Elizabethean and Jacobean styles is a delightful read. Illustrated with color and b/w photographs, as well as reproductions from several of the great pattern books of the period. 10.25"x11.75"; 240 pages. Slight rubbing to dust jacket, teensy chip at upper tip of rear jacket flap.

New York: Christie's, 1991. Wraps. Near Fine. Sale FIRESTONE - 7256; over 420 lots, illustrated in b/w and color. Prices realized laid-in. 292 pages, light rubbing to covers.

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

Los Angeles: Butterfield & Butterfield, March 30, 1993. First printing. softcover. Very Good. Sale 5440V. Auction of March 30, 1993. Lots 4001-4322. Also includes FINE ART NOUVEAU, ART DECO and ARTS & CRAFTS in Los Angeles, March 31, 1993. The second auction is printed upside down in the second half of the catalog. The first auction consists primarily of furniture, ceramics and prints, while the second auction is predominated by prints, ceramics and objects of art. Illustrated with b/w photos. 11"x8.5", some loss to surface at back cover at head of spine.

San Francisco: Butterfield & Butterfield, November 1, 1990. softcover. Very Good. Sale 4399G. Auction of November 1, 1990. Lots 1-325 and 326-644. Includes Twentieth Century Furniture, English and Belleek Porcelains, Glass, English, French, and American Decorations, French Clocks, Quilts and Coverlets, American Furniture, Garden Furnishings, Antiquities, Ivories, Architectural Renderings, Baby Bugatti, English Furniture, Bronzes and Sculpture, Continental Decorations, Oriental and Export Decorations, French Furniture, Continental Porcelains, Continental Furniture, Tapestries and Textiles, and Italian and Iberian Furniture. Illustrated with b/w and color photos. 11"x8.5", 171 pages; normal wear, a nice catalog. 1.8

Honolulu, HI: Honolulu Academy of Arts, 1980. Hardcover. Fine/very good +. Contains 55 color and 81b/w photos of examples of Rimpa paintings. Discusses different schools of design, contains a full catalog of the paintings illustrated, as well as a selected bibliography. 8.5"x12"; 143 pages. A little bumping to dust jacket, with wear at the corners, in particular.