Art of Rene Lalique
Wellfleet, 1996. Reprint. Boards. Folio, 192 pp., color photos throughout. Wear and rubbing to edges and extremities, smudge to rear pastedown. Light handling and edgewear to jacket, with some wrinkling to laminate at rear.
Crafts
Complete Illustrated Rugs & Carpets of the World
Secaucus, NJ: Wellfleet, 1988. Reprint. Hardcover in Slipcase. Folio, 352 pp., color & b/w illus. Head and heel of spine lightly bumped, tiny scuff to spine near crown. Several small scuffs to slipcase.
Complete Potter's Companion, The
Bulfinch, 1994. Second printing. Wraps. Revised & updated. 4to, 192 pp., illus. Minor edgewear to wrappers, corner of halftitle page torn.
Colonial Craftsman, The
New York: New York University Press, 1950. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo, 214 pp., illus. Spine cocked and lightly bumped at head, edges of boards and page edges sunned, corners of boards lightly bumped, top of fore-edge lightly bumped. Jacket sunned, edgeworn, with price inked out on flap.
American Criss-Stitch
New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1974. First edition. Boards. Oblong 8vo, 104 pp., section of color plates, patterns in b/w throughout. Light wear to head and heel of spine, page edges tanned, previous owner blind stamp. Jacket sunned, stained at spine, edgeworn, with 3" closed tear at rear and several.....
Gentleman & Cabinet-Maker's Director, The
Dover Publications, (1966). Later printing. Paperback. Reprint of third (1762) edition. 4to, b/w plates throughout. Top and bottom of fore-edge lightly bumped.
New Textiles, The: Trends and Traditions
Rizzoli, 1991. Hardcover. 4to, 192 pp., color & b/w illus. Light edgewear to jacket.
1980 Texas Craft Exhibition
Round Top: University of Texas, Winedale Historical Center, 1980. Staplebound Wraps. Oblong 8vo, pp. unnumbered, b/w plates. Textiles, ceramics, jewelry, etc. Head and heel of spine and corners bumped, wrappers edgeworn.
Texas Crafts
Houston: Sarah Campbell Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, 1978. Wraps. Oblong 8vo, 85 pp., numerous illustrations including four in color. Textiles, ceramics, metalwork, etc. Wrappers worn at edges and cornes and lightly soiled, with faint stain to fore-edge of rear cover also very lightly affecting margins of last few leaves.....
Family Holdings: Turkish Nomadic Flatweaves
Kansas CIty: UNiversity of Missouri, 1991. Staplebound Wraps. 4to, 32 pp., color photos. Wrappers handled, rubbed, edgeworn, faded at spine; very slight waving, but no stains.
Weave It Yourself
United States Indian Service, printed by Haskell Institute, Lawrence, KS, 1947. Plastic Comb Binding. Folio, 97 pp., b/w photos and illustrations throughout. Covers sunned, creased, worn and chipped, with small piece missing at front top edge, several small stains, light soiling; stains to interior of front cover and first two.....
English and Other Silver in the Irwin Untermyer Collection
New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1963. First edition. Boards. Folio, xxx, 96 pp., 200 b/w plates, illus. Head of spine lightly bumped. Jacket lightly sunned (mainly visible at interior) and lightly bumped at extremities, 2" closed tear to rear flap.
Natural Basketry
Watson-Guptill Publications, 1982. Later printing. Paperback. 4to, 159 pp., illus. Wrappers sunned, edgeworn.
Dedham Pottery and the earlier Robertson's Chelsea Potteries
Dedham, MA: Dedham Historical Society, 1968. Cloth. 4to, 52 pp., b/w illustrations. Light dustsoiling to covers.
Art and History of Frames: An Inquiry into the Enhancement of Paintings
New York: James A. Heineman, 1963. Cloth. Oblong 8vo, 119 pp., illus. Spine sunned and lightly bumped at heel. In original slipcase, which is dustsoiled and has minor insect damage at one edge.
WASHI: THE WORLD OF JAPANESE PAPER
Tokyo: Kodansha International, 1978. First edition. Cloth. Folio. 360pp. Illus. First Edition. Original linen cloth with brown lettering. Japanese paper endpapers with silk strands embedded. . Photo plates of the Washi producers. An exhaustive history of this process. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. Folio IInscribed by the author. Beautiful copy in.....
American Art Tile, 1876-1941
New York: Rizzoli, 1998. First edition. Boards. Folio, 224 pp., color throughout. Inscribed and signed by author. Very light wear at head and heel of spine and corners of boards only.
Kentucky Quilts 1800-1900
Pantheon, 1982. Wraps. 4to, 79 pp., color plates throughout. Wrappers a bit dull, handled and edgeworn.
America Underfoot: A History of Floor Coverings from Colonial Times to the Present
Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, 1976. Wraps. Square 4to, 76 pp., a few color and many b/w illus. Spine faded, light edgewear to wrappers.
Dyeing with Natural Materials
Albuquerque: Las Arana Spinners and Weavers Guild, 1972. First printing. Wraps. A booklet of dye recipes prepared for a workshop sponsored by the Las Arana Spinners and Weavers Guild in Albuquerque, NM.
Andean Folk Knitting: Traditions and Techniques from Peru and Bolivia
Saint Paul, MN: Dos Tejedoras Fiber Arts Publications, 1990. Wraps. 146 pp., color & b/w photos & illus. by the author. Some wear to wrapper edges/corners and page corners.
Oriental Ceramics Discovered in the Philippines
Rutland & Tokyo: Tuttle, 1967. First edition. Cloth. 4to, 249 pp., 228 plates with 89 in full color. Jacket faded at spine, edgeworn, with a few small chips.
Eloquent Object: The Evolution of American Art in Craft Since 1945
Tusla, OK: Philbrook Museum of Art, 1987. First edition. Cloth. Large 4to, 287 pp., color and b/w plates. Heel of spine bumped, dampstain to heel of spine and bottom edges of boards (not affecting interior), light foxing to page edges. Jacket handled, lightly scuffed and worn at folds, with dampstain.....
Irish Crafts & Craftsmen
Belfast: Appletree, 1982. Wraps. Oblong 12mo, 130 pp., b/w illus. Spine faded, otherwise Fine.
Peter Max Paper Airplane Book
Pyramid, 1971. First printing. Mass Market Paperback. pages unnumbered, one- and two-color designs and illustrations throughout, minimal text. Wrappers rubbed, edgeworn, small nick at head of spine.