Clear Cast: The Teaching & Hobby Approach to Plastic Resin
Fort Worth, Texas: American Handicrafts, 1972. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 11" x 8.5" Oblong soft cover. [32] pp. B&W illustrations. Chafing to covers and edges, some creasing to joints. More
Handicrafts
Misericords: Medieval Life in English Woodcarving
Middlesex: Penguin Books, 1954. Hardcover. 18mo. King Penguin #72. Printed paper boards. 30 pp., [2], [48] pp B&W plates. Rubbing to top and tail edges. Offsetting to endpapers. Dust jacket has a large chip to foot of front cover, smaller chip to head of front joint, light rubbing and toning..... More
The Art of Blacksmithing
New York: Harper & Row, 1984. Third Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Third edition, revised and updated by Charles McRaven. 487 p.p. Brown cloth boards with gilt titling to spine and blind stamped publisher's device to front board. Minor bumping to spine ends, else fine Dust jacket is sunned at spine with..... More
Baskets & Belongings
London: The British Museum Press, 2011. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Square 8vo. Illustrated soft cover, 95 pp, illustrations and photographs in color, clean text-block, light soiling to spine, Near Fine. More
More Dress Pattern Designing
London: Crosby Lockwood, 1972. Hardcover. 8vo (imperial). Orig. brown cloth. 176 pp. With 172 drawings. With Metric Supplement to Dress Pattern Designing & More Dress Pattern Designing in envelope pocket to front pastedown. Dust jacket is age toned, chafed to edges, a few short tears. More
The Stickmaker
[Great Britain]: The British Stickmaker's Guild. Hardcover. 6" x 9" 1991-1994. No. 26-39 plus Theo Fossel Memorial Issue. Issue 32 lacking. Green cloth binder with metal rod binding, collecting 14 saddle-stiched magazines. 48 pp. each. B&W illustrations in-text, varies based on issue. July 1991 issue duplicated. Flyer for Elvaston Jamboree..... More
Build a Home
New York: The Dial Press, 1946. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Orig. red cloth, xiii, 234pp. Illustrated with line drawings. Some markings on cloth, spine bumped at head and foot o/w very good in a soiled and chipped d/w with loss to jacket spine but still good. "Build A Home tells..... More
A Fine Line: Studio Crafts in Ontario from 1930 to the Present
Toronto: Dundurn Press, 1998. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Full green paper boards. xxviii, 220 pp. Fully illustrated in colour and B&W. Fine. More
Crane Business Paper Sample Book
Dalton, MA: Crane Business Papers, 1990. Alcorn, Stephen. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 5" x 6.5" Custom bound by Mueller Trade Bindery. Bound in 100% cream cotton fabric and Linter paper. Unpaged and unopened. Some light soiling to covers, else fine. More
Fabric Painting and Dyeing for the Theatre
New York: Drama Book Specialists, 1981. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Full blue cloth. xiv, 176 pp. Fully illustrated. Spine tilted. Ink gift inscription to ffep. Dust jacket is edge worn and rubbed. More
The Gnomes Book of Christmas Crafts
New York: Harry N. Abrams Inc., 1980. Hardcover. 4to. Pictorial paper boards. Illustrated cream cloth dust wrapper. Christmas sheet music for "The Forest Gnome Song" to endpapers, lyrics by Carol Sterbenz and music by Alison Hubbard. Over 75 illustrations in full colour and nearly 100 patterns and diagrams. 160 p.p...... More
The Art & Craft of Leatherwork: A Detailed & Practical Guide to the Tooling, Modelling, Carving & Other Means of Decorating Leather & to the Making & Covering of Articles in That Material; With Instructions on Cleaning, Staining, Colouring & Gilding
London: Seeley, Service & Co. Hardcover. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. N.d, [ca. 1928]Orig. green cloth. 256 pp. [3] colour plates + [15] B&W plates + 82 illustrations, 164 illustrations total. Scarce in dust jacket. Light chafing to extremities. Foxing to edges of text block. Dust jacket is..... More
Making and Playing Bamboo Pipes
Leicester: The Dryad Press, 1971. Soft cover. 12mo. Fifth printing. Soft cover. 43 pp. Some edge wear and rubbing to covers, light staining to rear. Light foxing to interior. More
Audel's New Electric Library, Vol. VII.
New York: Theo Audel & Co., 1943. Soft cover. 16mo. Soft, black leatherette, [12] 2,901-3,630. Illustrated. Light creasing to leather otherwise near fine. This volume contains house wiring, working with alternate current, knob and tube wiring, some useful mathematics and much more, with test questions at the end of each..... More
The Story of the American Walnut
Chicago: American Walnut Manufacturers Association, 1936. Soft cover. 12mo. Eighth Edition. Orig. orange wrappers, a walnut tree illustrated on upper cover, 36pp. Illustrated. "Compliments of the Galloway Furn. Ltd., Kitchener, Ont.' stamped on title. Fading to wrappers with some wear and creasing, o/w very good. History of wood technology and..... More
English Dolls' Houses of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
London: B.T. Batsford, 1955. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo (imperial). Orig. red cloth. T.E.R. 224 pp. B&W illustrations in text. Spine and edges sunned, white scuffs to front board. Spine cocked. O/w fine. More
Basket Work of All Kinds
London: Cassell and Company, 1912. Hardcover. 4" x 7" Orig. red cloth, paper label to front board. 160 pp. B&W engravings and diagrams. Spine sunned, rubbing to extremities, damp staining to corners and rear board, rubbing to paper label. Damp staining to endpapers, lower corners, and top edge of text..... More
Making it in Leather
New York: Drake Publishers, Inc., 1972. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 104 p.p. Dust jacket a little rubbed, sunned on the spine, small chips to spine head. Red buckram, title in gilt on spine. Bumping and wear to spine ends. Top edge lightly foxed. Lots of B&W illustrations and photos throughout..... More
Glass Paperweights: An Old Craft Revived
Coupar Angus, Scotland: William Culross & Son Limited, 1975. Hardcover. 8vo. Blue cloth boards, unlettered. vii, 33 p.p. Colour photographs. Light sunning to spine and edges. Dust jacket bumped at extremities, soiled at rear, one short tear to foot of front cover. This book is a brief resume of the..... More
The Hand Decoration of Fabrics
Bloomington, IL: McKnight & McKnight Publishing Company, 1959. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Orig. blue cloth. 193 pp., [4 pp. index]. B&W illustrations in text. Spine tilted, minor rubbing to edges, else fine. More
The Priscilla Drawn Work Book: A Collection of Beautiful Designs, With Lessons and Stitches
Boston: The Priscilla Publishing Company, 1909. Soft cover. 8vo (imperial). Orig. card wrappers, staple bound. 48 pp. B&W illustrations. Rubbing to extremities, wrappers are age toned, some creasing to joints, small chip to upper corner, short tear to foot and fore edge of front cover. More
Royal Sevres China
London: T.C. & E.C. Jack. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. N.d., [ca. 1938 per ownership inscription to ffep]. Masterpieces of Handicraft Series. Orig. black publisher's cloth, colour pictorial onlay. 90 pp. [16] plates, 8 in colour. Spine sunned, rubbing to extremities, wear to corners. Front hinge cracked..... More
Plastics for the Craftsman
New York: Crown Publishers, 1972. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 8vo. Soft cover. 214 pp. B&W illustrations in text, colour frontis. Covers lightly curled, bumping to corners, light soiling to rear cover, else fine. More
Artistic Woodturning
Provo, Utah: Brigham Young University Press, 1980. Hardcover. 8vo (imperial). Tan cloth boards, black lettering to spine. 254 p.p. B&W illustrations in-text throughout + 16 p.p. full-colour. Bruise to head of front board and spine foot. Dust jacket has a few short tears, some edge wear and bumping, chafing to..... More
Designer's Guide to Scandinavian Patterns
San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1993. 1st American Edition. Soft cover. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Soft cover. 128 pp. Fully illustrated. Covers age toned, a few scuffs to front cover, cropped to front flap. A collection of 125 illustrations showing the glory of Viking kings and the richness..... More