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Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Octavo. [1], 370 pages. Color frontispiece. Illustrated with 58 photographs by Doris Ulmann. Dark blue cloth hardcover with gilt title on the front cover and spine. Color illustrated dust jacket. Illustrated end papers. Light shelf wear to the hardcover. Dust jacket is foxed, soiled, and edge chipped. 1937 gift inscription written on the verso of the right front flyleaf.
Seller: Americana Books, ABAA, Stone Mt, GA, U.S.A.
Price: US$85.00 + shipping
Description: Very Good (little discoloration lower edge front cover; contents clean & tight); tiny nicks & tears (some scattered foxing) d/j. 8vo., embossed blue cloth, stamped in gilt, in dust jacket; 370 pages
Seller: Antic Hay Books, Asbury Park, NJ, U.S.A.
Eaton, Allen H.. Handicrafts of the Southern Highlands. Russell Sage Foundation, New York, 1937.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 370p, octavo. A very good copy in a very good - jacket. Illustrated with 58 photographs taken by Doris Ulman. Boards have minor wear along edges. Foxed. Jacket is foxed and lightly soiled, with wear to extremities, and two small pieces of tape on verso.
Seller: Old New York Book Shop, ABAA, Atlanta, GA, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: Hardcover in jacket, very good in good chipped and scuffed jacket. Illustrated after photographs by Doris Ulmann.
Seller: Winged Monkey Books, Arlington, VA, U.S.A.
Price: US$124.95 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Hardcover. 8vo. Russell Sage Foundation. 1937. 370 pgs. Illustrated with 1,200 full page illustrations, 8 in color and 58 photos of mountain life and workers. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has shelf-wear, rubbing present to the DJ especially around the extremities (chips and missing pieces present to the extremities of the DJ). Bound in navy blue cloth with gilt titles present to the spine and the front board. Boards have light wear present to the extremities of the boards (boards are lightly scuffed and worn at the spine ends). No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. 'Handicrafts of the Southern Highlands' is the only comprehensive book ever written on the crafts of Southern Appalachia. It contains a wealth of information on every aspect.log-cabin building; spinning and weaving out of cotton, wool and flax; types of looms used; names of weaving patterns; weaving drafts; natural dyes, patchwork and other kinds of quiltmaking; pottery, furniture making; making toys and dolls; musical instruments and mountain music; and much more. Doris Ulmann was an American photographer, best known for her dignified portraits of the people of Appalachia, particularly craftsmen and musicians. In 1932 Ulmann began her most important series, assembling documentation of Appalachian folk arts and crafts for Allen Eaton's landmark 1937 book, Handicrafts of the Southern Highlands. E-041; 8vo 8" - 9" tall
Seller: Last Exit Books, Charlottesville, VA, U.S.A.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Book has only light, general wear and aging with two very small scuffs on spine. Some interior toning and tide marks on front foredge with some minor waviness on a few pages at the begining. Jacket has some staining from long ago water damage that did not affect the interior in any significant way. The jacket has a number of stained areas and some edge and corner wear that includes small chips and tears. See scan. Solid copy overall of a prized book on Appalachian folk culture and art. Produced during the Depression with beautiful photographs by Ullman. ; 58 B&W Photographs; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 370 pages
Seller: The Ridge Books, Calhoun, GA, U.S.A.
Eaton, Allen H.. Handicrafts of the Southern Highlands.. Russell Sage Foundation, New York, 1937.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Original blue cloth. Previous owner's name in ink, Near Fine in Very Good Plus Dust Jacket with a few tiny edge tears and one tiny edge chip. Signed by Allen H. Eaton. Nice condition. A collectable copy of the classic study of the crafts of Southern Appalachia still useful to scholars. Fifty-eight illustrations from photographs by the Doris Ulmann.
Seller: Pride and Prejudice-Books, Ballston Lake, NY, U.S.A.
Eaton, Allen H.. Handicrafts of the Southern Highlands. Russell Sage Foundation, New York, 1937.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: This is a fine hardcover copy in a very good dust jacket with a tiny repaired chip to the lower edge of the front panel. Signed by the author, Allen Eaton, with an inscription to someone at the publishing house, dated September 22, 1937. First edition with the dust jacket price of $3.00 on the inside lower corner of the front flap. Completely clean inside and out. 58 beautiful black & white photogravure plates by Doris Ulmann. Also color plates of decorative arts from the Southern Highlands. Scarce in the dust jacket, and still more so signed. 9" high X 6" wide, 370. A beautiful copy. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.
Seller: Design Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Fifty-eight photographs by Doris Ulmann. Large but attractive bookplate on the front pastedown and a neat, contemporary gift inscription, else fine in a lightly soiled, near fine dustwrapper with a modest internally repaired tear on the rear panel. The Ulmann photographs have always made the many editions of this book desirable; the first edition has become very uncommon in jacket.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.