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Rooted: Creating a Sense of Place: Contemporary Studio Furniture

Product Description: The movement to buy locally, which has gained momentum in the areas of produce and food, is now spreading to arts and crafts. Through the work of over seventy contemporary furniture makers, the role of place in the creative process is explored and celebrated...read more

By Douglas Congdon-Martin (editor)

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9780764349485 | Schiffer Pub Ltd, April 28, 2015, cover price $34.99 | About this edition: The movement to buy locally, which has gained momentum in the areas of produce and food, is now spreading to arts and crafts.

Old Stained Glass for the Home: A Guide for Collectors and Designers

Product Description: Stained glass has long been a part of domestic architecture, but in the late 1800s its popularity soared. In part, this was due to new manufacturing techniques and distribution networks, but also it caught the imagination of Victorian, Art Nouveau, and Arts and Crafts designers around the world...read more

By Douglas Congdon-Martin

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9780764333163 | 2 revised edition (Schiffer Pub Ltd, August 28, 2009), cover price $29.99 | About this edition: Stained glass has long been a part of domestic architecture, but in the late 1800s its popularity soared.

9780764316845 | Schiffer Pub Ltd, January 1, 2003, cover price $29.95

Jensen Silver: The American Designs

By Douglas Congdon-Martin (photographer), Janet Drucker and Nancy N. Schiffer

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9780764327384 | Schiffer Pub Ltd, March 1, 2008, cover price $49.95

South Beach Perspectives

Product Description: South Beach, at Miami, Florida, has it all: sand, sun, surf, beautiful people, stylish fashions, architecture from the height of American Art Deco to the most modern renderings of steel and glass. The visitor is drawn in a hundred directions at once, trying not to stare, but hoping to take it all in and to hold onto the impressions this place is bound to make...read more

By Douglas Congdon-Martin

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9780764327964 | Schiffer Pub Ltd, October 25, 2007, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: South Beach, at Miami, Florida, has it all: sand, sun, surf, beautiful people, stylish fashions, architecture from the height of American Art Deco to the most modern renderings of steel and glass.

'50s, '60s, & '70s Kitchen Collectibles

Product Description: Relive an era when the kitchen was kitsch -- melamine bowls were pink and purple, cocktail shakers and party glasses sported fun themes, iced tea was served in sweaty spun aluminum of futuristic metallic shades, and wall clocks kept time in bright plastic frames shaped to evoke the jet age...read more

By Douglas Congdon-Martin and Tina Skinner

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9780764327582 | Schiffer Pub Ltd, September 15, 2007, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Relive an era when the kitchen was kitsch -- melamine bowls were pink and purple, cocktail shakers and party glasses sported fun themes, iced tea was served in sweaty spun aluminum of futuristic metallic shades, and wall clocks kept time in bright plastic frames shaped to evoke the jet age.

Cape Cod Perspectives

Product Description: Thoreau once described Cape Cod as the bared and bended arm of Massachusetts ...boxing with northeast storms. It still stands vigilant, but today it is better known for its beauty than its pugilism! Some residents continue to wrest their livings from the sea, of course, but for millions of people the Cape is a sun-drenched oasis, surrounded by the beauties of the ocean and bay, and filled with charming vistas of sand and surf, quaint villages, living history, and natural sanctuaries...read more

By Douglas Congdon-Martin

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9780764327667 | Schiffer Pub Ltd, June 15, 2007, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Thoreau once described Cape Cod as the bared and bended arm of Massachusetts .

Popular Royal Bayreuth for Collectors

By Robert S. Bernstein and Douglas Congdon-Martin

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9780080253909, titled "Global 2000: Implications for Canada" | Pergamon Pr, October 1, 1981, cover price $39.00 | also contains Global 2000: Implications for Canada

Paperback:

9780764311529 | 1 edition (Schiffer Pub Ltd, February 28, 2006), cover price $29.95

Stained Glass Windows And Doors: Antique Gems for Today's Homes

By Douglas Congdon-Martin

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9780764322761 | Schiffer Pub Ltd, January 28, 2006, cover price $39.95

By Douglas Congdon-Martin

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9780764322075 | Schiffer Pub Ltd, April 5, 2004, cover price $29.95

The Gustav Stickley Photo Archives

By Douglas Congdon-Martin

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9780764316616 | Schiffer Pub Ltd, August 30, 2002, cover price $69.95

Arts & Crafts Designs for the Home: Design for the Home

Product Description: The Arts & Crafts Movement began as a response to the Industrial Revolution of the 19th century, first in England and then in the United States. It idealized the craftsman and embraced simple, strong designs executed by hand. The art, metalwork, pottery, textiles, and furniture of the Arts & Crafts Movement are enormously popular in today's antique market, and the designs are inspiring a whole new wave of creativity...read more

By Douglas Congdon-Martin

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9780764311789 | Schiffer Pub Ltd, July 1, 2000, cover price $59.95 | About this edition: The Arts & Crafts Movement began as a response to the Industrial Revolution of the 19th century, first in England and then in the United States.

9780070058514, titled "Statistical Procedures for Engineering, Management, and Science" | McGraw-Hill College, June 1, 1980, cover price $93.05 | also contains Arts & Crafts Designs for the Home: Design for the Home, Statistical Procedures for Engineering, Management, and Science | About this edition: A comprehensive textbook on statistical Procedures

Arts & Crafts Designs for the Home: Design for the Home

Product Description: A comprehensive textbook on statistical Procedures

By Douglas Congdon-Martin

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Monterey Furnishings of California's Spanish Revival

Product Description: The Spanish Revival movement in architecture was well established when Barker Brothers, a California furniture retailer, approached the Mason Manufacturing about creating a line of Spanish-styled furniture. That was 1929, and within a year Mason had created a 24-piece line of furniture called Monterey...read more

By Douglas Congdon-Martin (photographer), Roger Remick (editor) and Michael Trotter (editor)

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9780764310676 | Schiffer Pub Ltd, June 1, 2000, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: The Spanish Revival movement in architecture was well established when Barker Brothers, a California furniture retailer, approached the Mason Manufacturing about creating a line of Spanish-styled furniture.

A Collector's Guide to African Sculpture

Product Description: The power and beauty of traditional African sculpture has influenced 20th century art and design around the world. Found in many museums, its abstract forms, skillful rendering, and deep symbolism has also made it a welcome addition to the homes of private collectors...read more

By Douglas Congdon-Martin and Theodore Toatley

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9780764310669 | Schiffer Pub Ltd, May 1, 2000, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: The power and beauty of traditional African sculpture has influenced 20th century art and design around the world.

Coffee Antiques

Product Description: Long before the current "coffee craze," collectors were fascinated with the world of coffee. This colorful, expansive book explores over a thousand antiques with more than 500 color photographs. From grinders to coffee cans, posters to coffee makers, this is a varied collection of over 100 years of coffee antiques from around the world, ranging from the most mundane to the most exotic...read more

By Douglas Congdon-Martin and Edward C. Kvetko

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9780764310683 | Schiffer Pub Ltd, February 1, 2000, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Long before the current "coffee craze," collectors were fascinated with the world of coffee.

Storytellers and Other Figurative Pottery

By Douglas Congdon-Martin

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9780764308055 | Schiffer Pub Ltd, August 1, 1999, cover price $19.95

9780887402708 | Schiffer Pub Ltd, March 1, 1997, cover price $19.95

Navajo Art of Sandpainting

Product Description: Sandpainting has it origin in the religious tradition and practice of the Navajo people. It forms a central part of their religious chants, being a place where Earth People and Holy People come into harmony, giving healing and protection...read more

By Douglas Congdon-Martin

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9780764308109, titled "The Navajo Art of Sandpainting" | 2 expanded edition (Schiffer Pub Ltd, May 1, 1999), cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Sandpainting has it origin in the religious tradition and practice of the Navajo people.

9780887402715 | Schiffer Pub Ltd, June 1, 1990, cover price $9.95

Images in Black: 150 Years of Black Collectibles

From the years of slavery through the years of civil rights, images of black people have taken many forms from formal studio photos and advertising images to folk art and household items. Hundreds of items are gathered here illustrated in color photos.

By Douglas Congdon-Martin

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9780764308062 | 2 revised edition (Schiffer Pub Ltd, March 1, 1999), cover price $24.95

9780887402739 | Schiffer Pub Ltd, October 1, 1990, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: From the years of slavery through the years of civil rights, images of black people have taken many forms from formal studio photos and advertising images to folk art and household items.

More Santa Carving With Tom Wolfe

Product Description: Tom Wolfe returns to an old friend of his, Santa Claus. In his own special way he leads the carver through each step of the carving process. The result is a traditional Santa in stride, heading for the reindeer pen to hook up for the Christmas flight...read more

By Douglas Congdon-Martin and Tom Wolfe

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9780764306266 | Schiffer Pub Ltd, November 1, 1998, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Tom Wolfe returns to an old friend of his, Santa Claus.

Arts & Crafts: The California Home

Product Description: The Arts & Crafts Movement had a profound effect on twentieth century design. It was a precursor to the minimalism of the day, yet imbued with a quiet eloquence based in careful, exquisite design. The natural materials, the subtlely organic forms began to shape living spaces across the country...read more

By California Heritage Museum (corporate author), Douglas Congdon-Martin and Robert Winter

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9780764306297 | Schiffer Pub Ltd, October 1, 1998, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: The Arts & Crafts Movement had a profound effect on twentieth century design.

9780060437077, titled "Fundamentals of Plant Science" | Harpercollins College Div, May 1, 1988, cover price $52.55 | also contains Fundamentals of Plant Science | About this edition: see above

Hathaway Shirts: Their History, Design, and Advertising

Product Description: From its founding in 1837 Hathaway Shirts has been the bellweather for quality and style. Ironically for their 120 years or so they did little or no advertising to the general public, promoting their product mainly to the trade or through small newspaper ads or signage at the stores...read more

By Douglas Congdon-Martin

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9780764306280 | Schiffer Pub Ltd, October 1, 1998, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: From its founding in 1837 Hathaway Shirts has been the bellweather for quality and style.

The Yam Yankee: & Other Veggie Carving Projects

Product Description: For the veteran carver or the newest devotee of the hobby, carving vegetables can be educational, fun, and surprising. We're not talking pumpkins here, but real carving, using woodcarving tools and techniques. Instead of wood, though, Tom uses sweet potatoes, which are firm enough to take the knife, and inexpensive enough to take a mistake or two...read more

By Douglas Congdon-Martin and Tom Wolfe

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9780764305009 | Schiffer Pub Ltd, June 1, 1998, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: For the veteran carver or the newest devotee of the hobby, carving vegetables can be educational, fun, and surprising.

More Twig Mosaic Furniture

Product Description: Rustic furniture is showing up in the most unusual places. It stands in the midst of the most modern furniture in a place of honor as a piece of folk art or sculpture. This one-time country mainstay, now graces the most elegant apartments of New York City or Beverly Hills...read more

By Douglas Congdon-Martin and Larry J. Hawkins

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9780764304996 | Schiffer Pub Ltd, June 1, 1998, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Rustic furniture is showing up in the most unusual places.

Aloha Spirit: Hawaiian Art and Popular Design

Chaucer's "Troilus and Criseyde" is one of the greatest narrative poems in English and one of the few poems of physical love. It is often overshadowed by the "Canterbury Tales" but David Benson argues that the poem has it's own profound multiplicity with a mixture of genres, styles, characters and competing elements creating a powerful literary experience for each reader. The author explores the diversity and extent of the contradictions produced by the poem but does not attempt to resolve them.

By Douglas Congdon-Martin

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9780764304897 | Schiffer Pub Ltd, March 1, 1998, cover price $49.95

9780048000859, titled "Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde" | Unwin Hyman, February 1, 1991, cover price $62.00 | also contains Chaucer''s Troilus and Criseyde | About this edition: Chaucer's "Troilus and Criseyde" is one of the greatest narrative poems in English and one of the few poems of physical love.

Great Cigar Stuff for Collectors

Product Description: Sit back, light up, and enjoy. Newly in vogue, people are rediscovering a relaxing pastime enjoyed for centuries. This book is a compendium of cigar related "stuff," from the old cigars in their original wrappers still ready to smoke to the fine humidors that have kept them fresh for decades...read more

By Douglas Congdon-Martin and Jerry Terranova

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9780764303685 | Schiffer Pub Ltd, November 1, 1997, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Sit back, light up, and enjoy.

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