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1) Sculpture in Fiber: Twelve Artists Working With Off Loom Techniques
Al-Hilali, Neda, Betty Anne Beaumont, Ronald H. Goodman, Francoise Grossen, Ferne Jacobs, Ron King, Hideko Nishimura, Walter Nottingham, Ed Rossbach, Barbara Shawcroft, Jon B. Wahling, Claire Zeisler (Exhibition catalog)

New York: Museum of Contemporary Crafts of the American Crafts Council, 1972. Pages unnumbered. B/w photos of two works by each artist. Light wear to wrappers at edges and corners only.. Stapled Wraps. Near Fine/No Jacket (Paperback). Square 8vo. (more information)

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2) Sashiko Made Simple: Japanese Quilting by Machine
Allen, Alice

Hinsdale, IL: Bernina, 1992. 78 pp., color photos, b/w illustrations, patterns. Wrappers rubbed and edgeworn, previous owner name, otherwise unmarked.. Wrappers. Very Good/No Jacket (Paperback). 4to. (more information)

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3) First Steps in Tin Punch
Almeda, Colby

Northbrook, IL: American School of Needlework, 1984. 17 pp., b/w illustrations, patterns. Wrappers a bit worn at bottom edges, head of spine lightly bumped.. Stapled Wraps. Very Good/No Jacket (Paperback). 4to. (more information)

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4) Painting Buildings in Watercolor
Barbour, Arthur J

New York: Watson-Guptill, 1973, 1973. 143 pp., color illustrations throughout. Jacket priceclipped, 1" closed tear at head of spine panel.. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Very Good. 4to. (more information)

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5) A Cranberry Kitchen (Tin-punching designs with instructions)
Boerens, Trice Liljenquist

Ogden, UT: Rainbow Chasers, 1984. 21 pp., color and b/w illustrations, patterns. Corners lightly bumped.. Stapled Wraps. Near Fine/No Jacket (Paperback). 4to. (more information)

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6) Tin-Glaze Pottery in Europe and the Islamic World: The Tradition of 1,000 Years in Maiolica, Faience and Delftware
Caiger-Smith, Alan

London: Faber and Faber, 1973. 236 pp., (24) plates in color, 189 monochrome, 33 figures, 9 maps in text. Tape marks to edges of covers and endpapers, front free endpaper removed, top edge and title page stamped, label on rear pastedown. Binding tight, text clean and unmarked. Hinges tape-reinforced. Page edges a bit darkened, light soiling to rear free endpaper. Jacket bright, clean and unmarked except for tape stains to flaps, with some edgewear, light chipping at head of spine, head and heel of spine panel internally tape-reinforce.. First Edition. Cloth. Ex-Library/Good. 4to. (more information)

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7) Social Entertainments: A Book of Practical Suggestions for Entertaining
Day, Lillian Pascal

New York: Moffat, Yard, 1914, 1914. 138 pp. Text illustrations and b/w photos showing poses and tableaux ranging from a May Day "Blue Bird Bride-Elect" to "Melon Shooting on the Beach" and featuring some fairly extravagant costumes. Inscribed "To my 'kid brother' Roy and my 'kid sister' Sarah with much love from 'The Author' Lillian Pascal Day, May 1914". Faint top edge and fore-edge dampstain affects page margins through about p. 50. Otherwise unmarked and sound with minor handling and fading to cloth.. Inscribed and signed by the author. First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. Small 8vo. (more information)

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8) The Human Figure (Commercial Art and Design, Division 8)
De Leon, Jerry Hudson. Illustrations by Fred Britton, George Letness, Jim Sasseville, Lawrence Dominic, et al

Minneapolis, MN: Art Instruction, Inc., 1954, 1954. 8.5x13.5". 77 pp., illustrated throughout with drawings, paintings and photographs in b/w (some printed in brown). Tight, clean and unmarked with light edgewear and handling to wrappers only.. Stapled Wraps. Very Good/No Jacket (Paperback). 4to. (more information)

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9) Encyclopedia of Needlework
Dillmont, Therese de

Editions Th. de Dillmont, Mulhouse (France), n.d. [ca. 1960s]. D-M-C Library. Revised Edition. 787 pp., 16 color plates, b/w illustrations throughout. A beautiful copy, in original plain card slipcase. Jacket sunned, edgeworn, with small smudge at heel of spine; slipcase sunned, price tag on front.. Cloth. Fine/Very Good. 16mo. (more information)

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10) Studio Glass: Selections from the David Jacob Chodorkoff Collection
Exhibition catalog

Detroit: Detroit Institute of Arts, 1991. 15 pp. Sixty works listed, with pieces by Dale Chihuly, Michael Glancy, Robin Grebe, Henry Halem, Judy Bally Jensen, Harvey K. Littleton, Ginny Ruffner, Susan Stinsmuehlen-Amend, Mary Van Cline, Steven Weinberg and Dana Zamecnikova illustrated (three in color, eight in b/w). Very light crease at head. Rear of wrapper has faint sticker ghost and one small, very faint stain. Interior Fine.. Stapled Wraps. Very Good/No Jacket (Paperback). 4to. (more information)

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11) Crafts 81
Exhibition catalog

Albuquerque, NM: Albuquerque Museum, 1981. [22] pp., 16 b/w plates. Contemporary ceramics, textiles, metalwork, etc., by Liz Anderson, Valerie Arber, Sally Bachman, C. Eleanor Bravo, Richard Chavez, Lucien Ferster, Paul Glenn, Lin Johnson, Ellen Klein/Martin Butt, Grace Kraft, Jonathan Krout, Jill Lindgren, Marion Rinehart, Peet Robison, Jack Stephens, Joan Weissman, et al. Brief texts by Ellen J. Landis, Marlene Gabel and Glen Kaufman. Wrappers a bit handled, rubbed, edgeworn.. Stapled Wraps. Very Good/No Jacket (Paperback). Square 8vo. (more information)

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12) Peru: A Legend in Silver (Silverwork from the Pedro de Osma Museum and the Barbosa-Stern Collection in Lima)
Exhibition catalog. Ana Maria Coronel-Rodriguez (Introduction)

Washington, DC: Inter-American Development Bank Cultural Center, 1992. 28 pp., color photographs throughout, text in English and Spanish. Sticker scar on front, light edge- and corner wear to wrappers; interior Fine.. Stapled Wraps. Good/No Jacket (Paperback). Narrow 4to. (more information)

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13) Gail's Copper Punch
Felzien, Gail

Danville, IL: Herr Publications, 1984. 24 pp., b/w illustrations, patterns. Corners lightly bumped.. Stapled Wraps. Near Fine/No Jacket (Paperback). 4to. (more information)

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14) How To Invest in Indian Jewelry
Gillespie, Alva H. Art by Tom Gibson

Albuquerque, NM: Jackal Jewelry Co., 1974. 68 pp., illustrated in b/w. Pamphlet. Includes glossary and key to symbols. Wrappers handled, dustsoiled and edgeworn, corners very lightly bumped; interior Fine.. Stapled Wraps. Good/No Jacket (Paperback). 8vo. (more information)

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15) Creating Pa Ndau Applique: A New Approach to an Ancient Art Form
Hassel, Carla J

Lombard, IL: Wallace Homestead, 1984. 120 pp., illustrated throughout including several color photos. Hmong reverse applique from Southeast Asia. Light edgewear to covers, book plate on copyright page.. First Edition. Comb-bound in Card Covers. Near Fine/No Jacket (Paperback). Small 4to. (more information)

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16) Craft Multiples
Herman, Lloyd E., Miriam Davidson Plotnicov, and Lois Moran (Texts)

Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1975. 64 pp., illustrated in b/w throughout. Published on the occasion of an exhibition at the Renwick Gallery of the National Collection of Fine Arts. Contemporary ceramics, textiles, metalwork, furniture, toys, musical instruments, etc., etc. Wrappers a bit sunned and edgeworn, a few specks to rear of wrapper, top and bottom of fore-edge bumped.. Wrappers. Very Good/No Jacket (Paperback). 4to. (more information)

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17) The Tamarind Papers: Technical, Critical and Historical Studies on the Art of the Lithograph, Volume II, Number 1 (Autumn 1978)
Journal. Clinton Adams, Editor. Contributions by Jules Heller, Kathryn Clark, Holly Roberts, et al

Albuquerque, NM: Tamarind Institute, 1978. 28 pp., illustrated in b/w. Heller and Clark on papermaking, Roberts on printer's chops, etc. Editor's cover sheet laid in, along with a small handwritten note signed by Clinton Adams, and a flyer for a Tamarind film. Wrappers a bit rubbed, edgeworn, with light foxing and small faint stricker ghost on front.. Stapled Wraps. Very Good/No Jacket (Paperback). 4to. (more information)

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18) Forget Me Not: A Gallery of Friendship and Album Quilts
Kolter, Jane Bentley

Pittstown, NJ: Main Street Press, 1985. 127 pp., 40 illustrations in color and 120 in b/w. Light handling to jacket only.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. 4to. (more information)

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19) American Potters: Mary and Edwin Scheier
Komanecky, Michael K

Manchester, NH: Currier Gallery of Art, 1993. Exhibition catalog. 109 pp., section of color photos, b/w photos throughout. One corner of first leaf bumped, otherwise Fine.. Self-Wraps. Near Fine/No Jacket (Paperback). 4to. (more information)

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20) Patchwork Pictures: 1001 Patterns for Piecing
LaBranche, Carol. Patterns Rendered by Donald Rolfe

Pittstown, NJ: Main Street Press, 1985. 127 pp., numerous color plates, patterns in b/w throughout. Light edgewear to jacket including one tiny closed tear.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. 4to. (more information)

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21) Guide to Seminole Patchwork
Lambert, Nancy Devlin

Severna Park, MD: Starshine Stitchery Press, 1983. 51 pp., illustrated in b/w throughout. Wrappers lightly rubbed and handled, lightly bumped at heel.. Signed by Author. Wrappers. Very Good/No Jacket (Paperback). 4to. (more information)

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22) Concetta Mason
Mason, Concetta (Exhibition Catalog). Wendy Haylett (Essay)

Santa Fe, NM: Garland Gallery, 1994. [15] pp., seven full-page color plates. Sculpture in glass.. Signed by the artist. Stapled Wraps. Fine/No Jacket (Paperback). 8vo. (more information)

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23) Aboriginal American Basketry: Studies in a Textile Art Without Machinery
Mason, Otis Tufton

Glorieta, NM: Rio Grande Press, 1970. First separate edition, reprinted from Smithsonian Institution Annual Report for 1902 [pub. 1904], Part II, pp. 171-548. 248 plates including several in color, b/w text figures.. First Printing Thus. Decorative Cloth. Fine/No Jacket (As Issued). 4to. (more information)

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24) Ice Sculpture
Matsuo, Yukio

(Shibata Shoten), 1988. 200 pp., color photographs and b/w illustrations throughout. Text in Japanese. Head and heel of spine very lightly bumped, light foxing to fore-edge and front free endpaper, heel of fore-edge lightly bumped affecting a few page corners only; U.S. distributor's ink stamp on rear free endpaper, rear pastedown clipped at corner. Jacket sunned at spine and edges, edgeworn, with chip at top edge of rear panel, 1" closed tear at heel of spine.. Cloth. Very Good/Good. 4to. (more information)

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25) Basketry: The Nantucket Tradition--History, Techniques, Projects
McGuire, John. Photography by Henry Peach

Asheville, NC: Lark Books, 1990. 125 pp., illustrated in b/w and color. . Inscribed and signed by author. First Edition. Boards. Fine/Fine. 4to. (more information)

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26) Basketry: The Shaker Tradition--History, Techniques, Projects
McGuire, John. Photography by Henry Peach

Asheville, NC: Lark Books, 1988. 143 pp., illustrated in b/w and color. Head and heel of spine and corners of boards lightly bumped, otherwise Fine, in lightly handled and edgeworn jacket.. Inscribed and signed by author. First Edition. Boards. Near Fine/Very Good. 4to. (more information)

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27) The Little Manual of Calligraphy
Pearce, Charles

New York: Taplinger, 1981. Pages unnumbered, illustrated throughout.. First Edition. Stapled Wraps. Fine/No Jacket (Paperback). Horizontal Format (approx. 8x10"). (more information)

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28) French Contemporary Tapestry: Adam, Idoux, Le Normand, Claude Stahly, Zwobada
Petit, Eugene Claudius (Text)

New York: Museum of Contemporary Crafts, 1964. Pages unnumbered, two color and numerous b/w plates and photographs, also including examples of sculpture, stained glass and bookbinding by the artists. Wrappers a bit edgeworn and unevenly faded; interior Fine.. Self-Wraps. Very Good/No Jacket (Paperback). Square 4to. (more information)

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29) Nantucket Lightship Baskets
Seeler, Katherine and Edgar

Nantucket, MA: Deermouse Press, 1984. Third Edition, reprint. 127 pp., color frontispiece, 52 full-page b/w photographs. Covers sunned and lightly soiled, with a couple of tiny nicks at spine edge; store stamp on front free endpaper, otherwise unmarked,. Boards. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to. (more information)

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30) Calligraphy's Flowering, Decay, & Restauration, with Hints for Its Wider Use Today
Standard, Paul

Pentalic Corporation, 1978, 1978. Reprint (orig. 1947). 36 pp., examples and illustrations throughout. Wrappers handled and darkened, with a few small stains, interior unmarked.. Wrappers. Good/No Jacket (Paperback). 8vo. (more information)

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