Featured item .. has ended
Five Antique Books on Vintage Dressmaking!
Womans Institute of Domestic Arts & Services
First Steps in Dressmaking: Essential Stitches and Seams; Easy Garment Making; Individualizing Tissue-Paper Patterns (1934)
Harmony in Dress: The Charm of Beautiful Clothes; Good Taste in Dress; Dress Foundations; Line in Figure and Dress; Color, its Theory and Application; Fabrics and their Adapability; Clothes Suitability; Good Taste in Millinery and Accessories; Planning Wardrobes (1933)
Cutting and Fitting: Cutting; Foundations for Fitting; Fitting; The Dress Form (1933)
Dressmaking, Trimming, Finishing: Perfection in Details; Finishes and Trimmings (1928)
Decorative Stitches and Trimmings: Embroidery and Decorative Stitches; Ribbons and Fabric Trimmngs (1934).
Scranton, Pa.: Woman s Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences
********************
12mos. Variously paginated. The books measure about 8 inches tall by 5 1/4 inches wide. Hardbacks bound in black cloth. The bindings are bumped and moderately rubbed and worn but sound. Green marbled endpapers. The text is sound. There is occasional damping to the edges of some of the volumes. The volume First Steps... has two significant tears. One is a jagged triangular tear, affecting the text on pages 17/18 (shown in our pictures) and the other is pages 31/32, which has most of the page torn away and missing. The volume on Cutting and Fitting has some damping along the lower edge, going into some of the text, ...
|
|
Featured item
FOR SALE
HISTORICAL RARE BOOK & THEOLOGICAL LIBRARY / INVENTORY / RESEARCH ARCHIVE.
INSTANT HISTORICAL and THEOLOGICAL LIBRARY containing in-part over 30,000 books and pamphlets.
Over 1650 feet of books and ephemera shelved and available for inspection. Also 230 boxes packed full.
Many First Editions and Early Printings by noted theologians & authors including: John Wesley, Charles Spurgeon, Alexander Campbell, George Whitefield, John Calvin, Roger Williams, Lorenzo Dow, A. J. Gordon, Sam Jones, D. L. Moody, Jacob Catlin, Jonathan Edwards, William Gladstone, Robert Lewis Dabney, J. William Jones, William Styron and Archibald Rutledge.
[Whitefield, George] [18th century American Imprints] A collection of twenty seven rare pamphlets mostly opposed to the preaching of George Whitefield printed during the great pamphlet wars occasioned by the Great Awakening in New England, 1740-1745.
Good books and ephemera on African-American / Black history & dialect, Alcoholics Anonymous, American history, Church history, Bibles & Translations, Books about Books & Book Collecting, Concordances, Juvenile, Lexicons, Literature, Native-Americans, Natural history, Nautical / Naval history, Philosophy, Reference, Religious Biography, Sermons, Theology, Travel, Virginia history, Western Americana, and World history.
Five four-drawer file cabinets filled with uncounted thousands of papers & pamphlets of research material collected over fifty years; incl ...
Del.icio.us
Digg
Technorati
searching ...
