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Summary of Lectures and Bibliography: Pennsbury Manor -- Americana Forum, 28-30 Sept., 1 Oct. 1967

By: N/A

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Morrisville, PA, Pennsbury Manor: 1967

Seller ID: 013204

Binding: Original Wraps

Condition: VG+

Illus. stiff paper wraps, stapled binding. Unpaginated; reproduced typescript with 1-2 pp. abstracts of lectures on various aspects of 18th- and 19th-century American folk and material culture, antiques, decorative arts. Light shelf wear. A former owner has added extensive and historically valuable annotations in a neat and precise hand.
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Decorative Ironwork: Some Aspects of Design and Technique

By: N/A

Price: $20.00

Publisher: London, Council for Small Industries in Rural Areas: 1973

Seller ID: 021743

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Fine

Black cloth, lettered in white. Essentially as issued. Slight shelf wear to dust jacket, now in archival mylar. 80 pp., illus. w/ 127 figures (b&w photographs, line drawings). 5th ptg.: Aug. 1973. Quite obscure issue, seldom seen stateside.
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The Chuck and Jan Rosenak Collection [Slotin Folk Art Auction, Buford, GA, 6 Nov. 2004 - catalog]

By: N/A

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Buford, GA, Slotin Folk Art Auction: 2004

Seller ID: 030692

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

Stiff color illus. wraps, perfect-bound. Lightly thumbed covers. 96 pp., 816 catalogued lots, pictured in color.
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The John Gordon Collection of Folk Americana [Christie's New York auction catalogue, #9052, 15 and 19 Jan. 1999]

By: N/A

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Christie's New York: 1999

Seller ID: 040011

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Near Fine

Stiff color pictorial wraps. 250 pp., 1352 catalogued lots, illus. w/ color photographs. Light shelf/handling wear, crease to bottom rear cover corner. Unmarked interior, no prices realized.
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Pennsylvania Dutch Art [The American Arts Library] [INSCRIBED]

By: Adams, Ruth

Price: $4.95

Publisher: Cleveland and New York, World Publishing Co.: 1950

Seller ID: 024375

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Laminated pictorial boards. Light shelf wear, a bit rubbed at spine extremities. Better than typically found. 64 pp., illus. in color, b&w.
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Foxfire Vol. 5, No. 4 (Winter 1971)

By: Angier, Suzanne, and B. Eliot Wigginton (advisors)

Price: $14.95

Publisher: Rabun Gap, GA, Southern Highlands Literary Fund, Inc.: 1971

Seller ID: 049957

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Fine

Goldenrod pictorial wraps, stapled binding. Slight handling wear. 193-268 pp., continuously paginated, illus.
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Foxfire Vol. 6, No. 1 (Spring 1972)

By: Angier, Suzanne, and B. Eliot Wigginton (advisors)

Price: $14.95

Publisher: Rabun Gap, GA, Southern Highlands Literary Fund, Inc.: 1972

Seller ID: 049958

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Near Fine

Brown pictorial wraps, stapled binding. Slight handling wear, a few ink scribbles on title page. 76 pp., continuously paginated, illus.
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Foxfire Vol. 6, Nos. 2-3 (Summer-Fall 1972) - w/ Gertrude Keener Loom Foldout

By: Angier, Suzanne, and B. Eliot Wigginton (advisors)

Price: $24.95

Publisher: Rabun Gap, GA, Southern Highlands Literary Fund, Inc.: 1972

Seller ID: 049959

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Near Fine

Goldenrod pictorial wraps, stapled binding. Slight handling wear, virtually as issued. 77-172 pp., continuously paginated, illus. Includes the rare foldout photographic/schematic for the Gertrude Keener Loom (issued loose).
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Old Norwegian Rose-Painting

By: Asker, Randi (text)

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Norway, Mittet:

Seller ID: 035369

Binding: Unbound

Condition: Near Fine

Tan folder, lettered in brown with front cover cut-out, containing [8] loose color plates exemplifying Norwegian rose-painting. Slight handling wear, former owner's signature inside folder. Text on back cover of folder excerpted from an essay by Randi Asker.
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American Shelf and Wall Clocks: A Pictorial History for Collectors

By: Ball, Robert W. D.

Price: $19.95

Publisher: Atglen, PA, Schiffer Publishing Ltd.: 1992

Seller ID: 049216

ISBN: 0887404278

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Black cloth-effect paper covered boards, lettered in gray. As issued. Color pictorial dust jacket shows slight spotting to lower front panel, otherwise essentially as issued, now in mylar. 272 pp., illus. w/ color, b&w photographs, Value Guide laid in.
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Pennsylvania German Tombstones: A Study in Folk Art [Pennsylvania German Folklore Society Vol. XVIII (18) (1953)]

By: Barba, Preston A.

Price: $69.95

Publisher: Allentown, PA, Pennsylvania German Folklore Society: 1954

Seller ID: 047989

ISBN: B001DDD5KU

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Near Fine

Full natural linen, illus. and lettered in red. Spine panel lettering somewhat faded, slight wrinkling to front flyleaf, otherwise as issued. [v],232 pp., illus. w/ numerous line drawings depicting PA German tombstone inscriptions and designs. Essential work on Pennsylvania and American folk art.
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Pennsylvania German Tombstones: A Study in Folk Art [Pennsylvania German Folklore Society Vol. XVIII (18) (1953)]

By: Barba, Preston A.

Price: $60.00

Publisher: Allentown, PA, Pennsylvania German Folklore Society: 1954

Seller ID: 052034

ISBN: B001DDD5KU

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Near Fine

Full natural linen, illus. and lettered in red. Lacking front flyleaf, former owner's illus. book plate mounted inside front cover, otherwise nearly as issued. [v],232 pp., illus. w/ numerous line drawings depicting PA German tombstone inscriptions and designs. Essential work on Pennsylvania and American folk art.
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Tulip Ware of the Pennsylvania-German Potters: An Historical Sketch of the Art of Slip-Decoration in the United States [#76/300, SIGNED]

By: Barber, Edwin Atlee

Price: $175.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, PA, Pennsylvania School and Museum of Industrial Art: 1903

Seller ID: 045483

ISBN: B002FOVSGE

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Tan cloth, with brown emblem on upper front cover and brown title field on spine panel, floral decorated endpapers, deckled text block edges. 233 pp., nearly 100 illus. (sepia). No. 76 of an edition limited to 300 copies, numbered by hand and signed by author on limitation page (verso of main title). Covers are somewhat soiled, typical of this issue, otherwise showing only minor shelf wear. Very scarce limited hardcover edition.
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American Decorative Arts: 360 Years of Creative Design

By: Bishop, Robert; Coblentz, Patricia

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Harry N. Abrams: 1982

Seller ID: 025150

ISBN: 0810906929

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Fine

Dark brown cloth, lettered/decorated in brown. Cloth very slightly tanned along edges, otherwise essentially as issued. Dust jacket basically as issued, now in archival mylar. 406 pp., 443 illus., including 160 color plates.
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Illustrated Housebuilding

By: Blackburn, Graham

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Woodstock, NY, Overlook Press: 1974

Seller ID: 020734

ISBN: 087951020X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

Black 1/4 cloth, black paper covered boards, lettered in gold foil. As issued. 155 pp., illus. w/ drawings. Dust jacket shows very slight shelf wear, now in archival mylar. Notably well preserved copy.
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Pennsylvania German Illuminated Manuscripts: A Classification of Fraktur-Schriften and An Inquiry into their History and Art

By: Borneman, Henry S.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Norristown, PA, Pennsylvania German Society: 1937

Seller ID: 047965

ISBN: B00085Z58E

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: VG+

Original edition, bound in light brown cloth, lettered in gilt, beveled edges, oblong format. A few light soil marks to cloth, front cover cloth mildly sunned, back cover cloth sunned a bit unevenly. Firm binding, clean interior. Book plate mounted inside front cover. 112 pp., 36 color plates, 2 b&w.
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Homespun Handicrafts

By: Bowles, Ella Shannon

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Philadelphia and London, J. B. Lippincott Co.: 1931

Seller ID: 030550

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good

Tan cloth, lettered/illus. in dark blue. Ex-library copy, typically marked/stamped, moderate wear. Spine extremities rubbed and mildly frayed, modest exposure at bottom corners. Firm, square binding. 251 pp., 60 b&w illus.
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Celebrating the Pennsylvania Germans: The Kunkel Family Fracturs [Frakturs]

By: Breininger, Lester P., Jr., with Frederick S. Weiser, James. E Kunkel, Richard and Rosemarie Machmer, Kathy Scogna

Price: $24.95

Publisher: Wyomissing, PA, Friends of the Reading Museum: 1997

Seller ID: 048835

ISBN: B0006FAR34

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Fine

Stiff color pictorial wraps, oblong format. [20] pp., illus. in color, b&w. Presentation of a group of fraktur that Breininger discovered in northern Berks County in the mid 1990s. Slightly handled.
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Celebrating the Pennsylvania Germans: The Kunkel Family Fracturs [Frakturs]

By: Breininger, Lester P., Jr., with Frederick S. Weiser, James. E Kunkel, Richard and Rosemarie Machmer, Kathy Scogna

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Wyomissing, PA, Friends of the Reading Museum: 1997

Seller ID: 048837

ISBN: B0006FAR34

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Fine

Explaining Traditions: Folk Behavior in Modern Culture

By: Bronner, Simon J.

Price: $29.95

Publisher: University Press of Kentucky: 2011

Seller ID: 049949

ISBN: 0813134064

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Gray cloth, lettered in gold foil. Presents nearly without wear, but corners of first pages of chapters 1-9 have been dog-eared, and there are scattered ink notations in the margins, light soiling to text block fore-edge. Dust jacket as issued, now in mylar. xiii,530 pp., illus. 1st ptg.
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Made By Hand -- Played By Heart: A Guide to Traditional Arts in Queens

By: Condon, Kathleen (editor)

Price: $18.50

Publisher: Jamaica, Queens, NY, Queens Council on the Arts: 1991

Seller ID: 028455

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Near Fine

Stiff pictorial wraps. Light shelf wear, former owner's surname in ink on front flyleaf. 78 pp., illus. w/ b&w photographs. Most of the "traditional arts" covered here are related to music, including folk traditions, dance, and especially instrument design and manufacture.
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Paint, Pattern & People: Furniture of Southeastern Pennsylvania 1725-1850 [Publications of the Pennsylvania German Society Vol. 45]

By: Cooper, Wendy A., and Lisa Minardi

Price: $94.95

Publisher: Winterthur, DE, Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum: 2011

Seller ID: 033556

ISBN: 0912724692

Binding: Cloth

Condition: New

Rust-brown cloth, lettered on front cover in blind and on spine panel in gold foil. As issued. Color pictorial dust jacket as issued, now in archival mylar. xxvi,278 pp., fully illus. in color. Pristine copy of one of the essential publications on decorated furniture of Pennsylvania and the Pennsylvania Germans. PGS Vol. 45. Scarce.
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Paint, Pattern & People: Furniture of Southeastern Pennsylvania 1725-1850 [Publications of the Pennsylvania German Society Vol. 45]

By: Cooper, Wendy A., and Lisa Minardi

Price: $65.00

Publisher: Winterthur, DE, Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum: 2011

Seller ID: 033683

ISBN: 0912724692

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Near Fine

Rust-brown cloth, lettered on front cover in blind and on spine panel in gold foil. Mildly bumped bottom front corner (no exposure), minor indentation along bottom front edge near joint, approx. 1 1/2" narrow area of minor soiling along bottom front edge, otherwise as issued. Color pictorial dust jacket shows the slightest bit of shelf wear, 1/8" closed tear at heel of front joint, virtually as issued, now in archival mylar. xxvi,278 pp., fully illus. in color. One of the essential publications on decorated furniture of Pennsylvania and the Pennsylvania Germans. PGS Vol. 45. Sca...
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Paint, Pattern & People: Furniture of Southeastern Pennsylvania 1725-1850 [Publications of the Pennsylvania German Society Vol. 45]

By: Cooper, Wendy A., and Lisa Minardi

Price: $85.00

Publisher: Winterthur, DE, Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum: 2011

Seller ID: 040157

ISBN: 0912724692

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Fine

Rust-brown cloth, lettered on front cover in blind and on spine panel in gold foil. As issued. Color pictorial dust jacket shows slight surface rub at top front corner, otherwise as issued, now in archival mylar. xxvi,278 pp., fully illus. in color. Pristine copy of one of the essential publications on decorated furniture of Pennsylvania and the Pennsylvania Germans. PGS Vol. 45. Scarce.
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Paint, Pattern & People: Furniture of Southeastern Pennsylvania 1725-1850 [Publications of the Pennsylvania German Society Vol. 45]

By: Cooper, Wendy A., and Lisa Minardi

Price: $94.97

Publisher: Winterthur, DE, Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum: 2011

Seller ID: 040833

ISBN: 0912724692

Binding: Cloth

Condition: New

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