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Presents the life and accomplishments of Anna Mary Robertson, the artist who was known as Grandma Moses, describing her development as an artist, with critiques of her major paintings.

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9781597640831 | New Line Books, December 30, 2005, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Presents the life and accomplishments of Anna Mary Robertson, the artist who was known as Grandma Moses, describing her development as an artist, with critiques of her major paintings.
9781880908471 | Todtri Book Pub, September 1, 1998, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Presenting concise overviews of artists and movements that are uniquely American, these volumes distill the essence of their subjects with authoritative texts and lavish illustrations.

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Product Description: The Antique Hunter's Guide to American Furniture is an indispensable reference and collecting tool for novice and experienced collectors alike. Expertly researched, each of the 334 representative examples of chests, cupboards, desks, racks, stands and other pieces-from Federal to Colonial Revival to Mission to modern-are photographed in full color and accompanied by an authoritative description of the variations, materials, origin, and (if known) maker...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By William C. Ketchum, Jr. and Chun Y. Lai (photographer)

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9781579121457 | Black Dog & Leventhal Pub, September 22, 2000, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: The Antique Hunter's Guide to American Furniture is an indispensable reference and collecting tool for novice and experienced collectors alike.

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Product Description: This handy, authoritative guide contains over 300 premier examples of American case furniture -- chests, cupboards, & desks -- built from the 17th century to the mid-20th. From Federal, Chippendale & Empire styles to country, Mission & mid-century modern, this splendid array of furniture has been photographed appraised, & categorized specifically for the collector...read more

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9780756790608 | Revised edition (Diane Pub Co, July 30, 2000), cover price $27.00 | About this edition: This handy, authoritative guide contains over 300 premier examples of American case furniture -- chests, cupboards, & desks -- built from the 17th century to the mid-20th.

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Product Description: These visual reference guides have all the information readers need to identify and appraise a wide variety of antiques. Expertly researched, each guide contains full-color photographs of every piece, along with a detailed description of the item, its origin, rarity, date of manufacture, relationship to similar pieces, price and hints for collectors...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9781579121099 | Revised edition (Black Dog & Leventhal Pub, June 1, 2000), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: These visual reference guides have all the information readers need to identify and appraise a wide variety of antiques.

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Book Description: Presenting concise overviews of artists and movements that are uniquely American, these volumes distill the essence of their subjects with authoritative texts and lavish illustrations.Replete with stunning reproductions of their greatest works, this volume documents how two of America's foremost artists defined the nation's vision of the expanding West, and captured forever the emotions of a now-vanished era...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9781577170242 | Todtri Book Pub, May 1, 1999, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Presenting concise overviews of artists and movements that are uniquely American, these volumes distill the essence of their subjects with authoritative texts and lavish illustrations.
9781577170020 | Todtri Book Pub, September 1, 1998, cover price $16.98 | About this edition: Replete with stunning reproductions of their greatest works, this volume documents how two of America's foremost artists defined the nation's vision of the expanding West, and captured forever the emotions of a now-vanished era.

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Book Description: Presenting concise overviews of artists and movements that are uniquely American, these volumes distill the essence of their subjects with authoritative texts and lavish illustrations.This pictorial history of frontier towns, cowboys, Indians, and breathtaking natural beauty is a tribute to the rugged breed of artists who tamed the Old West on canvas...read more

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9781880908716 | Todtri Book Pub, May 1, 1999, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Presenting concise overviews of artists and movements that are uniquely American, these volumes distill the essence of their subjects with authoritative texts and lavish illustrations.

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Book Description: The Shakers' spirit burns brightly through their legacy of design and architecture, examined in dramatic images in this book. An informative text presents lively historical anecdotes of this most fascinating of religious sects.

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9781880908440 | Todtri Book Pub, September 1, 1998, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: The Shakers' spirit burns brightly through their legacy of design and architecture, examined in dramatic images in this book.
9780831781712 | Smithmark Pub, February 1, 1996, cover price $15.98 | About this edition: The Shakers' spirit burns brightly through their legacy of design and architecture, examined in dramatic images in this book.

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Book Description: Presenting concise overviews of artists and movements that are uniquely American, these volumes distill the essence of their subjects with authoritative texts and lavish illustrations.Art, religion, and everyday function are invariably and naturally co-mingled in the beautiful and useful objects created by the native populations of North America...read more

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9781577170365 | Todtri Book Pub, September 1, 1998, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Presenting concise overviews of artists and movements that are uniquely American, these volumes distill the essence of their subjects with authoritative texts and lavish illustrations.
9780765192257 | Smithmark Pub, October 1, 1997, cover price $16.98 | About this edition: Presenting concise overviews of artists and movements that are uniquely American, these volumes distill the essence of their subjects with authoritative texts and lavish illustrations.

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Product Description: Book by Ketchem, William

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9781597642712 | 2 revised edition (New Line Books, January 1, 2009), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Book by Ketchem, William
9781880908389 | Todtri Book Pub, September 1, 1998, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Presenting concise overviews of artists and movements that are uniquely American, these volumes distill the essence of their subjects with authoritative texts and lavish illustrations.
9780831780982 | Smithmark Pub, August 1, 1995, cover price $16.98 | About this edition: A lavishly illustrated volume features American folk paintings and structures that encompass scrimshaw, calligraphy, carved furniture, gravestone art, weathervanes, nautical art, chalkware figures, and ceramic statuary.

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9781597643085 | New Line Books, January 1, 2009, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Presenting concise overviews of artists and movements that are uniquely American, these volumes distill the essence of their subjects with authoritative texts and lavish illustrations.

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Product Description: The first book to catalog and illustrate American furniture that bears the signature, label, brand, impression, or ink stamp of its maker. An essential reference for all serious collectors, antiques dealers, auctioneers, and researchers. Iillustrations.

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9780517595626 | Crown Pub, September 1, 1995, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: The first book to catalog and illustrate American furniture that bears the signature, label, brand, impression, or ink stamp of its maker.

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Product Description: American pottery collecting is hot, and there is no better guide on the market than this comprehensive handbook by a leading expert. Beginning with a brief history of the American ceramics industry, the book traces the development of collector interest in the major types of ceramics...read more

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9780380771387 | Avon Books, July 1, 1994, cover price $18.00 | About this edition: American pottery collecting is hot, and there is no better guide on the market than this comprehensive handbook by a leading expert.

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Product Description: The only guide to Western collectibles from cowboy and Indian relics to souvenirs of the Gold Rush and the great Western railroads. Each chapter addresses a different facet of life on the frontier and identifies and prices Western artifacts such as clothing, guns, mounted trophies, jewelry, textiles, and more...read more

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9780380771370 | Avon Books, December 1, 1993, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: The only guide to Western collectibles from cowboy and Indian relics to souvenirs of the Gold Rush and the great Western railroads.

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The ultimate guide for travelers on a budget describes all the major cities of Europe, presents a detailed sightseeing guide, and lists economical accommodations and restaurants, with exact prices provided for expenses. Original.

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9780517578070 | Crown Pub, January 1, 1993, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Shows and describes baskets, pottery, Navajo rugs, bead and quill work, jewelry, kachina dolls, horse tack, cowboy clothing, Spanish American furnishings, and miners' equipment

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9780028630373, titled "Frommer''s 2000 Europe from $60 a Day" | Book&map edition (Frommer, October 1, 1999), cover price $21.95 | also contains Frommer''s 2000 Europe from $60 a Day | About this edition: Offers tips, information, and listings for accommodations, sights, and restaurants for European cities

Surveys the history of American stoneware, shows and describes examples from various regions, and offers advice on collecting stoneware

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9780805012637 | Henry Holt & Co, November 1, 1991, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: Surveys the history of American stoneware, shows and describes examples from various regions, and offers advice on collecting stoneware

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9780028608587, titled "The New York Mets: A Photographic History" | Macmillan General Reference, March 1, 1996, cover price $19.95 | also contains The New York Mets: A Photographic History

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Product Description: This book has lots of ideas for working with country wreaths and baskets.

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9780696023552 | Meredith Pr, August 1, 1991, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: This book has lots of ideas for working with country wreaths and baskets.

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Looks at the history and manufacture of redware pottery, shows redwork produced in each region of the U.S., and lists potters marks

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9780805012620 | Henry Holt & Co, January 1, 1991, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: Looks at the history and manufacture of redware pottery, shows redwork produced in each region of the U.

Product Description: Many of the projects combine glue with chalk, markers, paints, and other media. Techniques include printmaking, collage, batik, and sculpting with string and wax. There's even a chapter on making clay, fun putty, and other homemade sticky stuff...read more

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9780026908559, titled "Glorious Glue: Art With Adhesives" | J Weston Walch Pub, March 1, 1996, cover price $16.95 | also contains Glorious Glue: Art With Adhesives | About this edition: Many of the projects combine glue with chalk, markers, paints, and other media.
9780394568324 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, December 1, 1990, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: Reference for holiday ornaments.

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Examines paintings, sculpture, embroidery, scrimshaw, toys, rugs, quilts, and weather vanes that make use of American symbols and ideals

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9780517033432 | Rizzoli Intl Pubns, May 1, 1990, cover price $22.99 | About this edition: Examines paintings, sculpture, embroidery, scrimshaw, toys, rugs, quilts, and weather vanes that make use of American symbols and ideals
9780028312200, titled "Consumer and Business Arithmetic" | Prentice Hall, March 1, 1984, cover price $28.20 | also contains Consumer and Business Arithmetic

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Explains the strategies and practices for antiques selling that make the difference in making a profit, and points out common pitfalls, showing how to avoid them

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9780805009989 | Henry Holt & Co, March 1, 1990, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Explains the strategies and practices for antiques selling that make the difference in making a profit, and points out common pitfalls, showing how to avoid them

Product Description: This book explores the history of Utilitarian pottery production in New York State, beginning with the Dutch in Manhattan in the mid-1600s. The subject matter ranges across the entire state. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780815624134 | 2 sub edition (Syracuse Univ Pr, November 1, 1987), cover price $60.00 | About this edition: This book explores the history of Utilitarian pottery production in New York State, beginning with the Dutch in Manhattan in the mid-1600s.

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9780815602194 | 2 revised edition (Syracuse Univ Pr, November 1, 1987), cover price $39.95

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This comprehensive guide to yellowware and spongeware features more than one hundred photographs of such objects as bowls, pie plates, jelly jars, gravy boats, and tooth brush holders

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9780394752440 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, November 1, 1987, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: This comprehensive guide to yellowware and spongeware features more than one hundred photographs of such objects as bowls, pie plates, jelly jars, gravy boats, and tooth brush holders

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This illustrated guide to American folk artists and their work spans a century of painters from Grandma Moses to Kathy Jakobsen and covers such media as sculpture, pottery, and textile creations

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9780847805037 | Rizzoli Intl Pubns, November 1, 1983, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: This illustrated guide to American folk artists and their work spans a century of painters from Grandma Moses to Kathy Jakobsen and covers such media as sculpture, pottery, and textile creations

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9780847806768 | Reprint edition (Rizzoli Intl Pubns, November 1, 1985), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: This illustrated guide to American folk artists and their work spans a century of painters from Grandma Moses to Kathy Jakobsen and covers such media as sculpture, pottery, and textile creations

Describes, dates, and lists the market value of a variety of American collectibles including furniture, popular glass and pottery, militaria, sports memorabilia, vintage clothing, and country store advertiques

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9780831712105 | Gallery Books, February 1, 1985, cover price $9.98 | About this edition: Describes, dates, and lists the market value of a variety of American collectibles including furniture, popular glass and pottery, militaria, sports memorabilia, vintage clothing, and country store advertiques

Shows antique furniture, silver, jewelry, bronze, weapons, pottery, glass, folk art, textiles, timepieces, toys, and baskets, and discusses styles and prices

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9780517459256 | Outlet, February 1, 1985, cover price $12.98 | About this edition: Shows antique furniture, silver, jewelry, bronze, weapons, pottery, glass, folk art, textiles, timepieces, toys, and baskets, and discusses styles and prices

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