Search Results: Titles starting with P from Palmer Books

New York: M. Barrows and Co., 1953. Hardcover. Very Good. The sixth edition revised by Frank Tilley. Containing the marks and monograms of the important factories. Illustrated throughout in colour and b/w with photos, figures, marks and sketches. Index and bibliography. 356pages + xii. 8vo, no dust wrapper.

Philadelphia: North American Publishing Company, 1966. First edition. Cloth. Very Good +. Patterned after "The Farmer's Almanac", this is the printer's version of "Today in History". Each day of the year has a short essay about a person or event in the field of printing, from typography to graphics. There's no particular chronology of year, on month and day, so you get a sampling of events over centuries of printing. This does make for fascinating reading if you're a fan of the history of printing. Green cloth; 10.5"x7.25"; 257 pages; 2 full-color folding plates. 1lb 14.4oz

Sussex: Sotheby's, January 22 -31, 1990. softcover. Very Good. Auctions of January 22 - 31, 1990. Illustrated with b/w photos, two color polaroids attached to two pages. Catalog consists of the following auctions: Oil Paintings and Watercolours; Antique and Decorative Furniture; Antique and Modern Silver and Plate; Jewellery; Oil Paintings and Watercoulors to include a selection of Old Master Paintings; Antique and Decorative Furniture; Oriental Ceramics and Eastern Works of Art. 82 pages, 10.75"x8.25". Normal wear.

Staten Island, NY: Maurizio Martino, (1997). Hardcover. As New. Reprint of the first edition and containing the 8 page supplement. Limited to 150 copies. An important listing of American color plate books with well annotated descriptions. 8.75"x5.75"; xxii, 140 pages; Green-grey cloth.

New York: Sotheby Parke Bernet, Inc, 1980. Wraps. Very Good. Sale 4343. 137 lots, illustrated with b/w photos, a few color. Shelf wear minimal, previous owner's name on title page.

Portland, OR: Collectors Press, 2001. Second printing. Hardcover. As New/as new. Pulp covers of the past such as the Shadow, Max Brand, Talbot Mundy, Erle Stanley Gardner, Black Mask, Sax Rohmer and Fu Manchu, C.S. Forester, and Captain Horatio Hornblower, Doc Savage, the Phantom Detective, and on and on. Printed in Hong Kong. Awesome graphics in this folio sized book. Pop Culture of the Year Award sticker on front cover of dust wrapper. 208 pages, 11.5 x 10.7". Dust wrapper in brodart.