This SIGNED hardcover book was published in 1976 by Harry N. Abrams with 312 pages. Flat-Signed by Reese Palley on the first blank page. The text is unmarked. The binding is sound though the hinges are weakening due to the size and the weight. The dust jacket is unclipped and untorn but is moderately worn around the edges. The dust jacket is protected in a mylar jacket. The magical formal purity of Edward Marshall Boehm's porcelains ranks him with such masters of realism as Norman Rockwell and Andrew Wyeth. His extraordinary insight into and devoted study of nature is like Audubon's. His technical wizardry is incomparable.......Thousands of ardent porcelain collectors have made Boehm porcelains, especially of birds, celebrated the world over. Examples of his art are to be found from Peking to Paris, from Moscow to Michigan. New editions of works made since his death are usually oversubscribed as soon as they are announced......Here at last is the definitive volume on this great American artist and the Boehm Studios. Reese Palley, noted art dealer and longtime friend of Boehm, has written a succinct and telling biographical study of the tragic, driven, compulsive genius, and has devoted years to the meticulous cataloging of every known piece of porcelain created by the Boehm Studios up to the moment this volume went to press. Each Boehm piece is described and illustrated; the number of pieces made and the dates of introduction are given for eacii edition. Many fascinating sidelights on individual pieces make this catalog very different from the usual dry enumeration of details...... Palley's catalog includes his new, comprehensive numbering systems (with a key to the old system), which will soon become indispensable to collectors. A glossary of terms and a guide to Boehm makersmarks are also of great value......A twenty-picture sequence with step-by-step descriptions shows Edward Marshall Boehm making a complex porcelain sculpture, from the initial sketching from life, through the molding, painting, and firing, to the finished masterpiece......This book is a necessity for every collector of porcelain, and will give tremendous pleasure to nature lovers as well......645 illustrations, 89 in full color