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2bk set
Bk1--Stapled wraps in fine condition, pages clean of marking. Includes full color and B&W reproductions.Catalogue of essays and 33 exhibition works including paintings, drawings, pastels, furniture and ceramics.
Bk2--Cover has light sun fading, binding is tight, textblock pages clean of marks. Includes full-color and B&W reproductions. Laid-inside back cover is a 1984 newsletter.
Exhibition catalogue of detailed essays regarding ceramics, oils, paper works, houses built, frescoes, etc.

No DJ issued, boards show no wear, previous owner's blacked-out label inside front cover. Spiral binding is tight, text block pages are clear of marks. Includes over 1,000 full color fabric swatches reproduced to scale, a Glossary and Bibliography.
A pocket-sized reference guide for textile appraisers and historians, antique quilt and fabric collectors, as well as quilters. Sections include historical information for each time period; swatches include identifying date of American manufacture. Produced by the society "dedicated to promoting the accomplishments of today's quiltmakers and their work..."

Very Rare. Paper covers show some surface, edge, corner, and spine wear and creasing; there are tape-repaired quarter inch tears on top and bottom of front cover. The perfect binding is tight, there is some rippling of the first 25 leaves; the text block pages are clear of marks. Includes color photographs throughout, some are full-page, with some B&W diagrams.
From their site: "Built on the hard-hitting evidence of our undercover investigations, Animal Defenders International runs awareness campaigns, lobbies governments and municipalities…the (circus) campaign has seen many successes including the closure of circuses, rescue of animals, and local and national bans"

DJ shows some wear, it is in a protective sleeve; cloth-covered boards show little wear, with slight crushing on top and bottom of spine and small bump on top front cover. The binding is tight, the text block pages are tanned with age but clear of marks except for a previous bookseller's price written in pencil on front flyleaf. Includes a section of B&W photos, Contents, list of Illustrations, and Glossary.
From the DJ: …the daily life of a very remote monastery on the Tibetan border. The author rejected common values of Western life, to search for truth and found it in this obscure corner of the world. This is fascinating as a work of travel, and as a religious book of some authority, an account of life at Rizong Gompa in Ladakh.