Search Results: Crafts & Hobbies from MagicCarpetBooks.com

Garden City, NY: Blue Ribbon (1940).. Hardcover. Very Good. Reprint. Cloth. xiii, 186 pp. Dust jacket has chips and tears. Pages yellowing. Contents solid. Two books in one!

Marietta, OH: Tommy Windsor Studio, 1952. First Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. Paper covers. 24 pages. A solid copy.

Colon, MI: Abbott's Magic Novelty Co. (1947).. Hardcover. Very Good. Stapled booklet. 7 pages. A solid copy. "The performer steps forward with six silks. Three are counted out and placed to one side in full view. The remaining three are tied end to end and gather up into a bundle. Performer commands the knots to leave the bundle and travel over to the separate silks. Presto! The silks are pulled out from the bundle and are found to be separated, and likewise, the three separate silks are found to be knotted together.

Houghton Mifflin, 1934. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Carl Rose. Cloth. 116 pp. Ink stain on page 96, not interfering with text. Small stain to upper board, dust jacket has a few tears and a chip to rear panel. The price is intact. "Here is a game of the 'Ask Me Another' persuasion, but differing radically in that it supplies a choice of answers for each question, contains an original anagram key for puzzle experts, and most important of all has its humorous as well as its serious side. There are well-known quotations to place, advertising slogans to identify, questions of fact to decide, and lines of poetry to complete. The reader must choose the correct answer from four or five alternatives, one or two of which are definitely outrageous.

Radnor, PA: Wallace-Homestead (1994).. Soft cover. Very Good. Trade paperback. vii, 200 pp. Photos. Bibliography. Index. Ex-library copy with stickers and stamps. "A vital ingredient for the 'country look' in decorating is the display of old farm implements that, in their worn state, represent a nostalgia for a quieter, simpler lifestyle. Clemens has compiled a handy flea-market guide for collectors in this area, covering everything from husking pegs and dibbles to farm toys, quilts, and giant John Deere and McCormick machines. Each chapter focuses on one aspect of farm life - including dairy, poultry, bees, butchering, planting, and harvesting - and is accompanied by black-and-white photos of the tools used, suggested readings, and expected price ranges." - LJ

Sparks, NV: Western Printing & Publishing (1963, 1965).. Soft cover. Very Good. Two volumes. Paper covers. 70 pages. 49 pages. Photos. Bibliography. Main volume inscribed to previous owner and signed (Grace) by the author. Supplement has previous owner's name. Wrinkling from moisture to top margin of last few pages of Supplement.

New York: Arco Publishing (1960).. First American Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Cloth. 122 pp. Illustrated. Index. No dust jacket. Light wear, faint stains to binding. Contents clean and tight.

Sparks, NV: Western Printing & Publishing (1964).. Soft cover. Very Good. Revised edition. Paper covers. 70 pp. Photos. Bibliography. Corner crease to rear cover. Contents clean and tight.

New York: Crown (1968).. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Martin Norman. Later printing. 136 pp. Bibliography. There are a few smudges to the boards and the price-clipped dust jacket has a couple of tiny chips.

San Angelo, TX: Educator Books, Inc., 1969. First Edition . Soft cover. Good. Paper covers. 102 pp. Illustrated. Ex-library copy with stickers and stamps.

London: Faber & Faber (1965).. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Green cloth with gilt lettering to spine. 209 pages plus plates. Illustrated, mostly b&w. Bibliography. Index. Price-clipped dust jacket. A clean, attractive copy.

Manchester, CT: Precision Shooting (1998). . First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Black cloth. 290, 13 pages. Photos. A clean copy with little wear.

Las Vegas: RGE Publishing (2002).. Soft cover. Very Good. Revised and expanded second edition. Paper covers. xiii, 103 pages. Glossary. Has a couple of notes in bibliography section. Minor spine roll. A clean copy.

Wolfeboro, NH: Bowers and Merena (2000).. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Glossy boards. 448 pages. Illustrated. No dust jacket. Wrinkling to upper corners of first pages from moisture. Uncommon.

Cincinnati, OH: North Light Books (2003).. Soft cover. Very Good. Later printing. Trade paperback. 127 pp. Illustrated. Index. A clean, nearly Fine copy. "An illustrated introduction to the craft of collage presents more than a dozen innovative techniques and step-by-step instructions for different collage projects -- including tin refrigerator magnets, a heritage collage, miniature candy tin assemblages, shadowboxes, and more.

New York: Clarkson N. Potter (1971).. First American Edition . Hardcover. Good/Very Good. Cloth with gilt lettering to spine. 144 pp. Illustrated, some color. Bibliography. Index. Ex-library copy with stickers and stamps.

New York: Simon & Schuster (1979). . First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Blue cloth with silver lettering. 358 pages. Nicely illustrated. Bibliography. Index. A solid copy with only minor wear.

New York: Winchester Press (1974).. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Red cloth with silver spine lettering. 274 pp. Illustrated. Dust jacket has a couple of short tears. The price is intact.

New York: Weathervane Books (1970).. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Reprint. 256 pp. Illustrated. Selective bibliography. Index. Light yellowing to pages, a couple of short tears to dust jacket. Louis Comfort Tiffany, Rene Lalique, Aubrey Beardsley, others.

New York: Hawthorn Books (1975).. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Second printing. 208 pp. Bibliography. Dust jacket has a couple of short tears.