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Nutan Mahendi
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Surat: Shree Gajanan Pustkalaya Booksellers & Publishers, n.d.. 24 pp. Twenty-four patterns for bridal mahendi (temporary henna tattoos) printed in brown and red, no text except on rear cover, which tells "How To Make A Cone" for application. Overall reticulation to wrapper laminate, fore-edge lightly bumped at head.. Stapled Wraps. Very Good/No Jacket (Paperback). Oblong 8vo. more information
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Aboriginal Art of Australia
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Sydney: Mulavon, 1984. Later printing. 34 pp., color photographs throughout. Rock engravings, cave and bark paintings, etc. Light sunning and edge and corner wear to wrappers.. Stapled in Card Wappers. Very Good/No Jacket (Paperback). Wide 8vo. more information
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Panama Artesanias / Handicrafts: Una breve guia de las artesanias naciones / A Short Guide to National Crafts
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Republica de Panama: SENAPI, 1970. 37 pp., color and b/w illustrations. Errata slip. Wrappers rubbed and edgeworn, corners bumped, previous owner address label partly removed from front.. First Edition. Stapled Wraps. Good/No Jacket (Paperback). Oblong 4to. more information
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Price: $7.50
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Las Miniaturas en El Arte Popular Mexicano (Latin American Folklore Series No. 1)
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Austin: Center for Intercultural Studies in Folklore and Oral History, University of Texas, 1970. 82 pp., color frontispiece, 30 b/w plates (illustrations by the author). In Spanish.. Wrappers. Fine/No Jacket (Paperback). 8vo. more information
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The Quilters: Women and Domestic Art, An Oral History
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Garden City, NY: Anchor Press, Doubleday, 1978. 155 pp., color and b/w photos throughout. Inscribed and signed by Norma Bradley Allen on front blank. A worn copy with wrappers handled and creased at corners, heel of spine bumped, fore-edge bumped at head affecting front wrapper corner and several page corners.. Inscribed and signed. Second Printing. Trade Paperback. Good/No Jacket (Paperback). Oblong 8vo. more information
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Threads of Life: A Journey in Creativity
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Giza, Egypt: Ramses Wissa Wassef Art Centre, n.d. [ca. 1991], 1991. Horizontal format, approx. 8x12". 70 pp., color illustrations throughout. Tapestries, ceramics and textiles made by young artists in Wassef's workshop.. Wrappers. Fine/No Jacket (Paperback). Oblong 8vo. more information
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Las artesanias tradicionales en Mexico
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Mexico: Sep/Setentas, 1972. 158 pp., illustrated in b/w throughout. Wrappers a bit handled and edgeworn, spine creased, pages tanned.. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket (Paperback). more information
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Price: $9.00
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Saints in the Valleys: Christian Sacred Images in the History, Life and Folk Art of Spanish New Mexico
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Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 1967. 122 pp., 46 b/w plates. Jacket rubbed and edgeworn with light chipping and one approx. 2" closed tear at front fold.. Revised Edition. Cloth. Fine/Good. 4to. more information
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One Europe
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Santa Fe, NM: Museum of International Folk Art, 1957. [14] pp., b/w photos throughout. Unsigned essay. Wrappers lightly edgeworn.. Stapled Wraps. Very Good/No Jacket (Paperback). 8vo. more information
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Decorative Arts of India
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Santa Fe, NM: Museum of International Folk Art, 1956. Pages unnumbered. Brief Introduction, ten b/w plates, one line illustration, one map in text. Wrappers edgeworn, price marked out inside front cover.. Stapled Wraps. Very Good/No Jacket (Paperback). 8vo. more information
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Carpinteros and Cabinetmakers: Furniture Making in New Mexico, 1600-1900
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Santa Fe: Museum of International Folk Art, Museum of New Mexico, 1984. 17 pp., b/w illustrations. Wrappers handled, with tiny nick at top rear edge, price inked out on title page, otherwise unmarked.. Stapled Wraps. Good/No Jacket (Paperback). Oblong 8vo. more information
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1500 Years of Andean Weaving
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Santa Fe, NM: Museum of New Mexico and the International Folk Art Foundation, 1972. Exhibition catalog. 16 pp., b/w photos and illustrations. Head of fore-edge very lightly bumped, otherwise Fine.. Stapled Wraps. Near Fine/No Jacket (Paperback). Square 8vo. more information
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The Thread of New Mexico
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Albuquerque, NM: Albuquerque Museum, 2001. Exhibition catalog. 117 pp., color illustrations throughout. Work by traditional and contemporary New Mexico weavers, including Nancy Kozikowsi, Agueda Martinez, Teresa Archuleta-Sagel, L. Armando Ortega, James Koehler, Lisa Trujillo, Rachel Brown, Nancy Beaver and many others. Tiny smudge on front free endpaper, tiny nick to rear wrapper corner, otherwise Fine.. Wrappers. Near Fine/No Jacket (Paperback). 4to. more information
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Portfolio of Spanish Colonial Design in New Mexico
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Albuquerque, NM: LPD Press, 2001. xxx, 36 pp. + 50 plates (47 in color, three in b/w). Facsimile reprint of E. Boyd's remarkable 1938 W.P.A. project, of which 200 copies were printed and many are purported to have been destroyed; compiled and with new introductory material by Rhett and Awalt, who have both signed this copy under their inscription to an unnamed recipient. Top edges of boards just a bit faded; jacket faded, lightly handled.. Inscribed and signed. First Printing Thus. Cloth. Near Fine/Good. Square 8vo. more information
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American Pieced Quilts
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New York: Flare Books, Avon, 1974. 93 pp., 84 plates including many in color. Spine slightly creased, wrappers a bit handled, corners lightly bumped, bookstore stamp inside back cover.. First Printing Thus. Wrappers. Very Good/No Jacket (Paperback). Square 16mo. more information
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Galeria, Ano 1, No. 3
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Guatemala: Fundacion G&T, 1998. 98 pp., illustrated in color throughout. In Spanish with thirteen-page English translation. Los Misterios de la Navidad, Los Mayas de Venicia, Daniel Chauche (portfolio of photogrpahs), La arquitectura industrial y utilitaria alrededor de Santiago de Guatemala, Mayolica, interiores, gastronomica, etc. Spine faded, wrappers a bit edgeworn, bottom of fore-edge bumped.. Wrappers. Very Good/No Jacket (Paperback). 4to. more information
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Art Journal, Vol. 47, No. 2: Object and Intellect: Interpretations of Meaning in African Art (Summer 1988)
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New York: College Art Association of America, 1988. Pp. 69-159, b/w photos and illustrations throughout. Wrappers lightly handled and edgeworn, corners lightly bumped.. Wrappers. Very Good/No Jacket (Paperback). 4to. more information
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El Palacio, Vol. 60, No. 9 (September 1953): Museum of International Folk Art
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Santa Fe, NM: Museum of New Mexico, 1953. Pp 306-335, b/w photos throughout, including several by Laura Gilpin. Issue dedicated to the formal opening of the Museum of International Folk Art, John Gaw Meem, architect. Light handling and dustsoiling to wrappers.. Stapled Wraps. Very Good/No Jacket (Paperback). 12mo. more information
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Folk Baroque in Mexico
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Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, 1974, 1974. Unpaginated, 42 b/w photographs. Wrappers rubbed and edgeworn, small chip at head of spine.. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket (Paperback). 8vo. more information
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Arte popular chileno
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Santiago, Chile: Editorial Universitaria, 1971. Coleccion Imagen de Chile, Cormoran. 136 pp., color plates, b/w illustrations. Wrappers a bit rubbed and edgeworn.. First Edition (of 5000 copies). Wrappers. Very Good/No Jacket (Paperback). 12mo. more information
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Herdsmen's Art in Hungary (Hungarian Folk Art 5)
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Budapest: Corvina, 1976. 86 pp., 16 color and 42 b/w plates, line illustrations in text. Boards lightly handled and a bit bowed, light wear to head and heel of spine and corners of boards, very light foxing to page edges.. Second Edition. Boards. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo. more information
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Lo bene naka elellie'e / La mirada es luz
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Oaxaca, Mexico: EDUCA Servicios Para Una Educacion Alternativa, 2001. Trade paperback. 8vo. 116 pp., color photographs throughout. A picture book about the people and crafts of San Mateo Mixtepec, with simple texts in Diatse'e (Zapotec) and Spanish. Fore-edge head lightly bumped.. First Edition (of 1000 copies). Soft cover. Near Fine/No Jacket (Paperback). more information
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Historia General del Arte Mexicano: Etno-Artesanias y Arte Popular
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Mexico: Hermes, 1974. 222 pp., numerous color plates, b/w plates and illustrations throughout. Bibliography. Casebound upside-down (i.e., lettering appears printed upside-down on spine and rear board), otherwise a Fine copy, sound, clean and unmarked. Jacket sunned at spine and edges, with light chipping and several small closed tears to edges, one 1" jagged closed tear at head of front panel, chip at heel of spine panel, flaps creased.. First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Good. 4to. more information
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Russian Lacquer, Legends and Fairy Tales
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Manhasset, NY: Siamese Imports Co., 1981. Second printing. 80 pp., illustrated in color throughout. Russian lacquer miniature painting, with folk tales from which many derive their subject matter. Light foxing to top edge and first and last leaves. Jacket edgeworn with a couple of small nicks and tears, light foxing to interior.. Inscribed and signed by the author. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 4to. more information
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Handicrafts of the South Seas: An illustrated guide for buyers
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Noumea, New Caledonia: South Pacific Commission, 1964. 87 pp., color and b/w photographs throughout. Wrappers a bit dustsoiled, worn and creased, light creasing to first few pages only.. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Good/No Jacket (Paperback). 8vo. more information
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Zacualpa Ceramics: Traditional Pottery from Southern Mexico / Alfareria Tradicional del Sur de Mexico
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San Antonio, TX: San Antonio Art Museum, 1986. Exhibition catalog. [13] pp., 11 b/w plates, photos. Text in English and Spanish. Top of fore-edge lightly bumped, wrapper fore-edge bumped with resulting small jagged tear.. Stapled Wraps. Very Good Minus/No Jacket (Paperback). Oblong 12mo. more information
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Bibliografia Del Folklore Chileno, 1952-1965 (Latin American Folklore Series No. 2)
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Austin: Center for Intercultural Studies in Folklore and Oral History, University of Texas, 1970. 60 pp., 425 items. In Spanish.. Wrappers. Fine/No Jacket (Paperback). 8vo. more information
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Celebrate! The Story of the Museum of International Folk Art
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Santa Fe: Museum of New Mexico Press, 1979. 57 pp., section of color plates, b/w illustrations throughout. Wrappers a bit rubbed and edgeworn, head of spine lightly bumped, previous owner name.. First Edition. Wrappers. Very Good/No Jacket (Paperback). 4to. more information
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The Art of the Arnhem Land from the collection of William McE. Miller, Jr
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Colorado Springs: Taylor Museum of the Colorado Fine Arts Center, 1966. Horizontal format, approx. 6x8.5". Pages unnumbered, 78 items listed, b/w illustrations. Australian aboriginal bark paintings, carvings and other artifacts. Light edgewear to wrappers only.. Stapled Wraps. Near Fine/No Jacket (Paperback). Oblong 12mo. more information
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Wooden Saints: The Santos of New Mexico
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Feldafing (Bavaria): Buchheim, 1967. 63 pp., 16 color plates. Covers handled, head and heel of spine bumped and worn, front free endpaper removed.. Glossy Boards. Good/No Jacket. 12mo. more information
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Velox Ward
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Fort Worth, TX: Amon Carter Museum, 1972. 64 pp., four plates in color, b/w plates and illustrations throughout. Texas folk painter. Wrappers soiled, including price sticker residue; interior clean and unmarked except for small amount of foxing to last leaf only.. First Edition. Wrappers. Good/No Jacket (Paperback). Small 4to. more information
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Egyptian Tapestries from the Workshop of Ramses Wissa Wassef: An Experiment in Creativity
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Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, (1975), 1975. Unpaginated, three tipped-in color plates, 12 b/w illustrations. Traditional tapestries commissioned by architect Ramses Wissa Wassef and woven by Egyptian children. Light edgewear to wrappers.. Stapled Wraps. Near Fine/No Jacket (Paperback). Square 8vo. more information
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Exhibition of Greek Folk Art Catalogue
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Athens: Ministry of Culture and Science, Museum of Greek Folk Art, 1977. 47 pp., 128 items, 55 plates in color and b/w. Silverwork, embroidery, clothing, weaving. Wrappers lightly handled and edgeworn.. Self-Wraps. Very Good/No Jacket (Paperback). Wide 8vo. more information
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