About this title: A complete how-to manual for one of the best-known baskets in the world. Nantucket baskets - with their nesting sizes, wooden bottoms, cane weavers and bail handles - are immediately recognisable and universally admired. In this book, a leading authority on basketmaking shows how to make all the classic Nantucket baskets. More than 200 colour ...
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Description: Good in Fair jacket. 093727450X Dust jacket condition: Fair. Long tear and staining to rear panel of jacket. For generations, the treacherous shoals southeast of Nantucket Island sent countless numbers of whaling ships and trading vessels to watery graves. Then, in 1853, the United States government stationed a lightship there, to warn ship captains off an island so often shrouded in fog that it is known as "The Gray Lady. " Confined on a small, uncomfortable ship for months at a time, the ... read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Lark Books
Date Published: 2000-08-31
ISBN-13:9781887374521ISBN:1887374523
Description: Very Good Plus. No DJ, as issued. NOT EX-LIB! SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR, JOHN MCGUIRE! LOADED WITH ILLUSTRATIONS! No writing or underlining! Paperback, with bumps and rubs to cover. All text bright and tight! I have a stellar reputation as a bookseller. Please email with any questions. Thank you for looking! "Find it! Buy it! Read it! " Arkansas Bookseller. read more
Binding: HC
Publisher: Lark Books, Asheville, NC
Date Published: (1990)
ISBN-13:9780937274507ISBN:093727450X
Description: B&W and color illustrations. Very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover) 128pp. ISBN 093727450X Author introduces the people who have given Nantucket its distinctive character: Indians and sheepherders, Quakers and whalers. And he explains exactly why the Nantucket lightship basket took the distinctive form it did. Then with more than 200 step-by-step photoes, and with clean precise instructions, the author explains how to create a variety of elegant Nantucket baskets, including both round and ... read more
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 128 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. SHIPS VIA US MAIL read more
Description: History, Techniques, Projects. Asheville, NC: Lark Books, 1990. FIRST EDITION. Numerous b/w and full color photographs and illustrations. Photography by Henry Peach. 128 pp. Hardcover. Square 8vo. Beige paper covered boards. Head, heel and corners very lightly rubbed. Else, a nice copy in like dustjacket. Very good+/Very good+. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Lark Books (NC)
Date Published: 1990-11
ISBN-13:9780937274507ISBN:093727450X
Description: Excellent condition. North Carolina: Lark Books, 1990. Hardcover. A history of regional basketry with an emphasis on lightship basketry. Near Fine with light edge wear. read more
Description: Very Good. 093727450X First Edition with Full Number line. DJ has minor shelf wear. Book is clean and binding is tight. Fountain Street Books ships out Same day or Next day. Due to the price this order will be upgraded to require Signature Confirmation and be Insured, all at no additional cost to the buyer. Tracking provided for all orders. read more
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