Handicrafts of the Southern Highlands: A Book on Rural Arts
Russell Sage Foundation, 1937. 8vo, blue cloth, gilt titles, pictorial endpapers, 370pp. Fifth printing, 1948. Boards minimally worn with smile spotting and fading to cloth. Unclipped dust jacket (3.50) with some loss to spine panel, rubbing and foxing to rear panel. Contents clean, binding firm. A comprehensive WPA-era study of Appalachian handicraft and folk arts, concentrating on Eastern Kentucky, Tennessee, and Western North Carolina. Fifty eight black and white plates of artisans at work by Appalachian photographer Doris Ulmann. A nice copy in mylar.
Price: $45.00