Authors starting with E from Crunruh Books

E. Lee Baumgarten Featured on The Book Guys Radio Show - Alas, the long awaited 5th edition of the important reference <i>Price Guide and Bibliographic Check List for Childrens & Illustrates Books 1880 - 1970</i> is here. It's been 8 years since the last edition, so this is a very welcome update. <P> For those not familiar with Lee Baumgartens <i>Price Guide and Bibliographic Check List for Childrens & Illustrates Books</i>, many collectors consider this to be the... more information

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Atglen, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.: Schiffer Pub Ltd, 1984 **NEW** Folk Art in America is the story of the roots of America's passion for art that is uniquely its own. Through her text and illustrations, Adele Earnest acquaints the reader with folk art masterpieces and some of the artists who created them. She relates the history of the folk art movement in America and the founding of the Museum of American Folk Art. She reminisces about those early collectors who blazed a place for folk art in the art world:... more information

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Atglen, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.: Schiffer Pub Ltd, 1982 **NEW** The carved bird decoy is the only truly American folk art - for the decoy as an aid to hunting was devised by the American Indians and has grown as a useful art since the days of the colonists. Decoy-carving was developed and refined to such a degree that now early and well-carved birds are prized by collectors. This book, full of stunning photographs, shows the best examples from both public and private collections, and gives the reader an idea ... more information

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Atglen, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.: Schiffer Pub Ltd, 1999 **NEW** The American fraktur tradition began about 1740 in southeast Pennsylvania, but quickly spread to other states, and remains popular even today. For centuries, these cherished hand-written and watercolor decorated paper manuscripts have embodied a richness of tradition and culture, blending text with riotous color and Pennsylvania Dutch design. Having roots in medieval European decorated manuscript art, fraktur celebrate family events such as births... more information

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Mendham, New Jersey, U.S.A.: Astragal Press, 1999 A wonderful book that covers the vast range of axes used throughout time and throughout the world, starting with the early stone hand-axes of the Paleolithic period through the flint, copper, and bronze axes of early civilizations, the early iron axes of the medieval age, and the production of steel axes made possible by the Industrial Revolution. Included are discussions of all axe types from celts to hand axes, tomahawks to hatchets, pebble tools to broad ... more information

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Atglen, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.: Schiffer Pub Ltd, 2000 **NEW** Willy Messerschmitt (1898-1978) was indisputably one of the most significant of Germany's aeronautical design engineers. This book examines Messerschmitt's life as a designer, aircraft builder, and businessman; it begins with the Harth-Messerschmitt gliders (1913-1923), winds its way through the sportplanes of the 1920s and 1930s, the M 18 and M 20 passenger airliners, the Bf 108 Taifun commuter plane, the Bf/Me 109, 110, 210, 410 military... more information

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Atglen, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.: Schiffer Pub Ltd The Cultural Revolution in China was a time of upheaval and change. Millions of lives were disrupted and much effort was spent by the government and the Party to "reeducate" the populace through a great propaganda campaign. Posters, ceramic statues, Red Books, pins, and a myriad of other means were designed to get the message across. Now, after the opening of China to the West, these things are finding their way into the collector's market. In thi... more information

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2005 This volume is an illustrated survey of masterworks of Japanese craft art from the Meiji period to the present day drawn from the collections of the Crafts Gallery, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo. Essays elucidate the birth of Japanese modern craft in the Meiji period and the studio craft movement in the Taisho, early Showa, then on to post-war and the 70's through the 90's. Works in major fields are represented: ceramics, lacquer, textiles, painting, and other media.. Soft Cover. New. 5.... more information

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Where the mountains can be gods it seems obvious to talk about the sacredness of landscape: The proceedings of an international seminar at Heidelberg in May 1998 present nine case studies covering the entire range of the Himalaya, from Ladakh and Garhwal in India, to Humla and Mustang in Nepal as well as Bhutan. The focus is on space-related architectural and/or anthropological analysis of the built environment and its location in landscape - a term that denotes the uniqueness and singularity of a certain p... more information

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Paperweight Press, 1984 Paperweights are generally thought of as heavy objects placed on papers to keep them from scattering; but to a paperweight collector, they are works of art with rich simplicity crafted from the beauty and brilliance of glass. It is difficult to imagine that glass paperweights like those illustrated in this book were ever used for such a mundane task as holding down papers. When paperweight production was at its height in the mid-nineteenth century, people found these small but intric... more information

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Atglen, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.: Schiffer Pub Ltd, 1996 **NEW** At the forefront of the Art Deco movement were metalware and sculpture, made by highly skilled craftsmen and artists. This book contains over 200 photographs and illustrations of Art Deco metalwares and sculptures, The author discusses Art Deco's most significant artists, as well as their predecessors and modern counterparts. He provides an introduction to the designs of Hagenauer, WMF, the Bauhaus, Ferdinand Priess, Chiparus, Brancusi, and Br... more information

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Atglen, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.: Schiffer Pub Ltd, 1997 **NEW** For many years collectors and dealers alike tended to overlook dolls made of cloth in favor of their china and bisque contemporaries. Fortunately, this situation has changed dramatically in recent years. This book covers the story of cloth dolls from their ancient ancestors through to present day examples. This one easy-to-use volume with over 500 illustrations provides the most comprehensive study guide for this area in doll collecting available ... more information

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Mayfield Books in association with the Antiquarian Horological Society, Northern Section, 1996 ** Brand New **. Hardcover. New/New. ... more information

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United Kingdom: Miller/Mitchell Beazley, 2000 ** BRAND NEW **. Paperback. New. ... more information

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Atglen, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.: Schiffer Pub Ltd, 1997 **NEW** In the frontier of Colorado in 1903, Frank Sherman had a photography studio and souvenir shop in Colorado Springs. he decided that he needed more postcards to sell to the tourists, so he visited his brothers who worked at the Holt Livestock Co., in Hugo, Colorado. He packed up his gear and went to photograph the cattle roundup. His timing was fortuitous. Just before the roundup was to start, word came that President Theodore Roosevelt would be sto... more information

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Atglen, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.: Schiffer Pub Ltd, 1997 **NEW** Much of early Americana has been destroyed and lost forever. But occasionally, and almost miraculously, some parts of its survive. So it is with the photographs in this book. Saved from an ignominious end in the city dump, they chronicle and enliven the cowboy's life on the range. The result is a beautiful volume of real-life images of western cattlemen. These unretouched photographs taken from the original 5" x 7" negatives give an ... more information

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Atglen, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.: Schiffer Pub Ltd, 1997 **NEW** This beautiful history of the art form begins with a liberal discussion of fine jewelry's ancient history as exotic amulets and symbolic ornaments, and proceeds to explain and profusely illustrate developing trends in European jewelry as symbols to the growing middle classes. The author shows jewelry examples from the Italian Renaissance, Dutch seventeenth century, Baroque, all manner of nineteenth century, Art Nouveau, Art Deco, and the big-n... more information

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Atglen, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.: Schiffer Pub Ltd, 1999 **NEW** Now with current prices, this book shows the big, flashy machines that have entertained and delighted us in taverns, arcades, and at home for half a century. Devoted fans are all around the world, and nearly everyone has a special memory of their favorite machine and a story to tell of the greatest game they ever played. Naturally, these machines have become highly prized collectibles. Renowned for the conspicuous design of their playing surfaces ... more information

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Ken Roberts Publishing Co., 1972 The Elgin National Watch Company was not incorporated until May 12, 1874. Originally the firm was organized as the National Watch Co. of Chicago Illinois. Consequently all of the reproduced data within this publication refers to the latter organization. The formation of this company with western capitalists in combination with Eastern technologists and a few English dial workers, represents an extremely story and industrial history. Most of the watch making talent came from ... more information

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Atglen, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.: Schiffer Publishing, Limited, 1986 **NEW** This beautiful book presents in large format the story of Margaret Tafoys's paramount place in the evolution of Tewa Pueblo pottery in Santa Clara, New Mexico. This monumental work is divided into four major sections examining a history of the Pueblo people, Margaret Tafoya's life, Santa Clara pottery making techniques, and the Tafoya family and descendants. Because Margaret Tafoya has adhered to the traditions of her pueblo in... more information

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