Washington: National Museum of African Art, 1994. [24p.] 9x8 inches oblong, illustrated with color plates, very good in stapled pictorial wraps. catalogue of a show of African beaded artworks. More about Beaded splendor; National Museum of African Art, Washington, D.C. June 1 - Octorber 9, 1994
Cat.No: 149463
Tokyo: Nihon Keizai Shinbunsha, 1959. [26p], wraps, Japanese text. B&W photos of items from an arts and crafts exhibition held at Mitsukoshi Department Store. From the library of Laurence Sickman; his initials on cover. More about Bi no bi ten
Cat.No: 142371
Kyoto: the museum, 1986. Paperback. 414p., profuse exhibit photography, exclusively in color, each image extensively captioned and facing a verso page of further text. Softbound, a substantial catalogue on coated alkaline paperstock. Externally mildly edgeworn with subtle signs of handling, but quite sound and presentable; internally we see only one... More about Catalogue of the Collection; Selected Works in The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, October...
Cat.No: 235637
San Francisco: Asian Art Museum, 1995. 127p., profuse color exhibit photography with extensive captioning, 11x8.5 inch openweave cloth boards gilt in glossy color dj; a very good copy. More about A chorus of colors Chinese glass from three American collections
Cat.No: 168791
Washington: The George Washington University, 1997. 12p., 10x7.5 inches oblong, preface, introduction, bibliography, map, illustrated with color photos, very good in original stapled pictorial wraps. More about The Colonnade Gallery presents the creative hand; contemporary art and artifacts of Southern...
Cat.No: 113785
Tokyo: Nihon Dento Kogeikai, 1961. [32p], wraps, Japanese text; with 10-page English catalog tipped in. B&W photos of items from the exhibition held at Mitsukoshi Department Store. English version not found in OCLC. More about Dai 8-kai Nihon dento kogei ten [8th exhibition of Japanese traditional handicrafts
Cat.No: 142370
Santa Rosa: National Association of Miniature Autographs, 1981. unpaginated 8.5x11 inches, illustrated with photos, maps, drawings, patterns, plans, ads, very good in brad-bound gilt-illustrated covers. Convention program. More about Fashions in miniature: N.A.M.E. Region N-2 House party, El Rancho Tropicana Hotel, Santa Rosa,...
Cat.No: 157723
Detroit: General Motors Corporation, 1943. Pamphlet. 51p., each page illustrated with sepia vignettes, staplebound pamphlet in 8x5 inch decorated wraps; the blank back cover is a little dust-soiled, else clean and entirely sound, a very good copy. More about Hand Tools, Their Correct Usage and Care. This booklet was prepared and issued to members of the...
Cat.No: 227810
New York: Christie's New York, 2006. Paperback. 290p., profuse exhibit photography entirely in color, captioned vignettes and a few fullpage shots, a sumptuous display beautifully produced in softbound 10.5x8 inch color wraps. Unmarked, the very faintest signs of handling, a near-perfect copy. More about Historic Cards and Games: The Stuart and Marilyn Kaplan Collection. Wednesday 21 June 2006...
Cat.No: 222252
Mead Art Museum. unpaginated oversized brochure in very good condition, oblong 7x10.5 inches. A brochure for the Iwa Yoruba exhibition at the Mead Art Museum. More about Iwa Yoruba: Mead Art Museum Amherst College April 8 - May 9
Cat.No: 117871
Yangzhou, China: n.pub. [197-]. 6x4 inch printed folder containing nine different smaller papercuts, each preserved between sheets of tissue paper, all still bright crimson red. Yangzhou was a center for papercut crafts. More about Jian wu [Paper folder containing nine different handmade papercuts in red, depicting a militant...
Cat.No: 197953
Owerri: Pascaleen Art Co., no date. 17p., 7.75x10.5 inches, foreword, illustrated with b&w and color plates, very good in original stapled pictorial wraps. More about A presentation of Imo State art and crafts the better life programme for rural women, Imo State...
Cat.No: 113812
Colorado Springs: Taylor Museum for Southwestern Studies, [1990?]. 24p., illus. with both color and black/white photos of relevant cultural articles, 8.5x11 inches, wraps. Very good. More about Sacred land; Indian and Hispanic cutures of the southwest
Cat.No: 93417
Istanbul: Turkish Republic Ministry of Culture, June 1990. Unpaginated, perhaps 200 pages, fullpage color exhibit photographs accompanied by diagrammatic pattern analytics, coated paperstock throughout, 13x9 inch glossy black wraps decorated in color with sur-wrap or jacket mimicking the journal cover. There is a small ding midway of the upper spinefold... More about Turkish handwoven carpets catalog no: 4
Cat.No: 171157
Berkeley / Ukiah / Oakland: Heyday Books / Grace Hudson Museum / Oakland Museum of California, 1996. Paperback. 128p., illustrated with two line maps and a plethora of b&w and color exhibit photos, site pix and period photography. A fine large production on coated alkaline paperstock, softbound in 11x8.5 inch... More about Remember Your Relations; The Elsie Allen Baskets, Family & Friends
Cat.No: 236773
Los Angeles: Craft and Folk Art Museum, 1978. Paperback. 65p., coated paperstock throughout with color and b&w exhibit photography, site and period images; first edition 9x8 inch color wraps, a very good copy. More about Weaving Traditions of Highland Bolivia December 19, 1978 to February 4, 1979
Cat.No: 179367
Brescia: "La Scuola" Editrice, 1941 [-xix]. 162p., many b&w drawings and woodengravings scattered in text with (appended) 21 color plates (colorized b&w) on coated paper. Paperbound in 7.5x5 inch buff wraps printed in two colors with overlapping edges; cover quite foxed with a bit of dust- and handling soil, overlaps..... More about L'arte delle Piccole Mani; manuale di lavoro educativo per le scuole materne e elementari, Con...
Cat.No: 227253
San Diego CA: TrizecHahn Development Corporation / City of Pasadena, 2000. Hardcover. 67p., profuse captioned color photography on high-gloss paperstock with scattered blocks of text; hardbound, a deliberately handsome production in 9.5 inch-square "debossed" linen boards and dust jacket (f.y.i., "debossing" googles, appears to mean crushing openweave texture to apply... More about Athens of the West / Pasadena Style
Cat.No: 229937
Berkeley: Berkeley Architectural Heritage Association, 1993. [35p] 7x8.5 inches, photo-illustrated with a doublespread line map very good booklet in stapled decorated wraps. Staples are rusting with migration, otherwise unmarked with mildest signs of handling. More about The Arts & Crafts Home in Berkeley
Cat.No: 186006
Washington: NEA, 1996. 63p., 8.5x11 inches, appendixes, illustrations, photos, maps, charts, very good in original pictorial wraps. NEA report. More about In good hands; a portrait of state apprenticeship programs in the folk and traditional arts, 1983...
Cat.No: 118883
San Francisco: San Francisco Craft and Folk Art Museum, 1993. 32p., 9x12.5 inches, illustrated with b&w and color photos, very good in stapled cardboard covers with half-dj as designed. More about Nine decades: the Northern California Craft Movement, 1907 to the present
Cat.No: 159584
La Paz, Bolivia: Artistica, 1939. Paperback. xix, 201p + printed wraps, with an illustrated dust wrapper. Text in Spanish. Mild wear, creasing and fading to edges of wraps. Edgeworn dust wrapper. Biblioteca Boliviana No. 8. Originally published in 1640 and in many editions and printings since, This 1939 edition includes... More about El Arte de Los Metales
Cat.No: 205295
New Delhi: S. Chand & Company Ltd, 1978. 171p., xx b&w plates on inserted stock, frontispiece and two dj images are reproduced in colorized photography, hardbound in bright red openweave cloth boards gilt, in dust jacket. Top margin of dj looks a little edgeworn, probably from careless storage not handling;..... More about The Temples of Nepal, An Introductory Survey. Second Revised Edition
Cat.No: 231900
Albany, CA: East Bay Heritage Quilters, 1978. 76p., recto-only, 7.5x8.5 inches, foreword, steps to quilting, illustrated with b&w photos of quilters, various patterns, plans for framers etc., very good reprint handbook (from 1934 original) in spiral-bound pictorial paper covers. Leisure Hobby Series. A reprint of the 1934 Leisure Hobby Series... More about Quilting
Cat.No: 208408
New York: Scribner's, 1917. xiii, 111p., very good hardcover in green cloth, fourth edition. Black and white photos, color diagrams. More about Basketry Book: Twelve Lessons in Reed Weaving
Cat.No: 198944
