Samplers & Sampler Motifs

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~ Exhibit & Auction Catalogs ~


Antique Samplers: A 1995 Calendar

ISBN: None

The Scarlet Letter

1995

SC (Hanging calendar)   12 pp.

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New

Inventory #14-14-1995

$6.00


Embroidered Samplers in the Collection of the Cooper-Hewitt Museum

Gillian Moss

ISBN: 0910503435

The Smithsonian Institution

1984

SC   32 pp.

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Used (Good+ - fading to front cover and wear/stain to back cover; insides fine)

Inventory #14-00-3999

$100.00


Historic Samplers and Early Needlework Pictures: A 2002 Calendar

ISBN: None

The Scarlet Letter

2002

SC (Hanging calendar)   12 pp.

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New

Inventory #14-14-2002

$6.00


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'Imparaticci' = 'Samplers': Exercises of embroidery of European and American little girls from the seventeenth century to the nineteenth century

Marina Carmignani

ISBN: 887038120X

No information given

1986

SC   78 pp.   (Italian text)

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Used (Very Good - light cover wear; otherwise like new)

Inventory #14-00-4649

$126.00


In The Neatest Manner: The Making of the Virginia Sampler Tradition

Kimberly Smith Ivey

ISBN: 0879352027

Curious Works Press

1997

SC   117 pp.

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Used (Like New)

Inventory #14-00-4179

$300.00


The Joan Stephens Collection: Important Samplers and Pictorial Needlework

ISBN: None

Sotheby's

1997

SC

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Used (Very Good - corner crease to lower back corner)

Inventory #14-00-4148

$86.00


Samplers

Carol Humphrey

ISBN: 0521575923

Cambridge University Press

1997

SC   140 pp.

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Used (Like New)

Inventory #14-00-4539

$22.00


Samplings: A selected offering of antique samplers and needlework ~ Volume XI

ISBN: None

M. Finkel & Daughter

1997

SC   27 pp.

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Used (Very Good - crease on lower front right corner; light wear on back cover)

Inventory #14-00-4036

$38.00


Samplings: A selected offering of antique samplers and needlework ~ Volume XIII

ISBN: None

M. Finkel & Daughter

1998

SC   33 pp.

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Used (Very Good)

Inventory #14-00-4038

$40.00


Samplings: A selected offering of antique samplers and needlework ~ Volume XXI

ISBN: None

M. Finkel & Daughter

2002

SC   33 pp.

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Used (Very Good)

Inventory #14-00-4042

$40.00


Samplings: A selected offering of antique samplers and needlework ~ Volume XXII

ISBN: None

M. Finkel & Daughter

2002

SC   34 pp.

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Used (Very Good)

Inventory #14-00-4043

$40.00


Samplings: A selected offering of antique samplers and needlework ~ Volume XXIII

ISBN: None

M. Finkel & Daughter

2003

SC   34 pp.

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Used (Very Good)

Inventory #14-00-4044

$40.00


Samplings: A selected offering of antique samplers and needlework ~ Volume XXIV

ISBN: None

M. Finkel & Daughter

2003

SC   31 pp.

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Used (Very Good)

Inventory #14-00-4045

$40.00


Samplings: A selected offering of antique samplers and needlework ~ Volume XXV

ISBN: None

M. Finkel & Daughter

2004

SC   35 pp.

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Used (Very Good)

Inventory #14-00-4046

$40.00


Samplings: A selected offering of antique samplers and needlework ~ Volume XXVI

ISBN: None

M. Finkel & Daughter

2004

SC   33 pp.

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Used (Very Good)

Inventory #14-00-4047

$40.00


Samplings: A selected offering of antique samplers and needlework ~ Volume XXVII

ISBN: None

M. Finkel & Daughter

2005

SC   28 pp.

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Used (Very Good)

Inventory #14-00-4048

$40.00


Samplings: A selected offering of antique samplers and needlework ~ Volume XXVIII

ISBN: None

M. Finkel & Daughter

2005

SC   34 pp.

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Used (Very Good)

Inventory #14-00-4049

$40.00


Samplings: A selected offering of antique samplers and needlework ~ Volume XXIX

ISBN: None

M. Finkel & Daughter

2006

SC   32 pp.

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Used (Very Good)

Inventory #14-00-4050

$40.00


The Theodore H. Kapnek Collection of American Samplers

ISBN: None

Sotheby Parke Bernet, Inc.

1981

SC

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Used (Very Good - cover  wear ; some price notations by PO; includes prices realized on add'l sheet insert)

Inventory #14-00-4015

$80.00


This Have I Done: Samplers and Embroideries from Charleston and the Lowcountry

Jan Heister & Kathleen Staples

ISBN: 1928584039

Curious Works Press

2001

SC w/ dust jacket   46 pp.

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Inventory #14-02-5082

$20.00


Virtue Leads & Grace Reveals: Embroideries and Education in Antebellum South Carolina

Patricia V. Veasey

ISBN: 1928584098

Curious Works Press

2003

SC   56 pp.

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New

Inventory #14-02-5401

$20.00


When This You See...

Elaine Reichek

ISBN: 0807614602

George Braziller

2000

HC w/ dust jacket   96 pp.

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Used (Very Good/Very Good)

Inventory #14-00-4358

$20.00


~ Historical Reference Books ~


A Maryland Sampling: Girlhood Embroidery 1738 - 1860

Gloria Seaman Allen

ISBN: 9780938420989

Maryland Historical Society

2007

HC w/ dust jacket   384 pp.

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New

Inventory #14-00-4540

$75.00


A Sampler of Alphabets

Modes & Travaux

ISBN: 0806965088

Sterling Publishing Co., Inc.

1987

HC w/ dust jacket   120 pp.

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Used (Like New/Very Good)

Inventory #14-00-4528

$10.00


A Stitch In Rhyme: An Examination of Verse Embroidered on Needlework Samplers in England and America between 1647 and 1857

Marsha Van Valin

ISBN: 0964476436

The Scarlet Letter

1999

SC   86 pp.

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New

Inventory #14-14-0STI

$24.00


American Needlework Treasures: Samplers and Silk Embroideries from the Collection of Betty Ring

Betty Ring
ISBN: 0525482903

E. P. Dutton

1987 (Stated first edition)

SC   112 pp.

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Used (Like New)

Inventory #14-00-3774

$225.00


Common Thread/Common Ground: A Collection of Essays on Early Samplers and Historic Needlework

edited by Marsha Van Valin

ISBN: 1964476452

The Scarlet Letter

2001

SC   80 pp.

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New

Inventory #14-14-0COM

$33.00


The Evolution Of Samplers...Embroidery and Sampler Time Line...

Eileen Bennett of The Sampler House

ISBN: None

Self-published

2001

Spiral-bound SC   54 pp.

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New

Inventory #14-08-0080

$30.00


The Judith Hayle Samplers

Edwina Ehrman

ISBN: 9780955208638

Needleprint

2007

SC   91 pp.

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New

Inventory #14-03-0003

$45.00


Ohio Is My Dwelling Place: schoolgirl embroideries 1800 - 1850

Sue Studebaker

ISBN: 0821414534

Ohio University Press

2002

SC   310 pp.

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New

Inventory #14-00-3359

$22.00


Patterns of Childhood: Samplers from Glasgow Museums

Rebecca Quinton

ISBN: 0713674768

The Herbert Press

2005

SC   96 pp.

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New

Inventory #14-07-AI09

$24.00


Plimoth Colony Samplers

Mary M. Davidson

ISBN: 0960049649

The Channings

1974/5

SC   58 pp.

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Used (Like New)

Inventory #14-00-3867

$100.00


Quaker School Girl Samplers from Ackworth

Carol Humphrey

ISBN: 0955208610

Needleprint

2006

HC w/ dust jacket   250 pp.

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New

Inventory #14-03-0002

$70.00


Samplers

Shozo Kato

ISBN: 4529024695

Nihon Vogue

1994

SC w/ dust jacket   56 pp.   (Japanese text)

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New

Inventory #14-07-JF29

$35.00


Samplers

Susan Mayor & Diana Fowle
ISBN: 1559211547

Studio Editions Ltd.

1996

SC   62 pp.

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New

Inventory #14-00-4226

$10.00


Samplers For Today

Cecile Dreesmann

ISBN: 0442221789

Van Nostrand Reinhold Company

1972

HC w/ dust jacket   160 pp.

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Used (Like New/Poor - the dj has extensive tears along the spine and on the back)

Inventory #14-00-3739

$12.00


Samplers from A to Z

Pamela A. Parmal
ISBN: 0878464816

MFA Publications

2000

SC   64 pp.

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New

Inventory #14-00-3169

$10.00


Samplers from the Welsh Folk Museum Collection

Christine Stevens

ISBN: 0863838855

Gomer Press

1991

SC   30 pp.

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Used (Very Good - corner crease to lower back corner)

Inventory #14-00-4155

$48.00


Samplers of the Pennsylvania Germans

Tandy and Charles Hersh
ISBN: 0911122583

The Pennsylvania German Society

1991

HC w/ dust jacket   303 pp.

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Used (Like New/Very Good - DJ has edgewear and a few minute edgetears the largest being along the crease at the top right folding into the flap  - 1")

Inventory #14-00-3784

$450.00


Samplers & Samplermakers: An American Schoolgirl Art 1700 - 1850

Mary Jaene Edmonds
ISBN: 0847813967

Rizzoli

1991

HC w/ dust jacket   168 pp.

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Used (Like New/Like New)

Inventory #14-00-4620

$68.00


Samplers & Tapestry Embroideries

Marcus Huish
ISBN: 0486220702

Dover Publications, Inc.

1970

SC   176 pp.

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Used (Good+ - some cover wear)

Inventory #14-00-3812

$10.00


Samplers: Five Centuries of a Gentle Craft

Anne Sebba

ISBN: 0500233004

Thames and Hudson

1979

HC w/ dust jacket   160 pp.

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Used (Very Good+/Poor - the book itself is in excellent condition; unfortunately, as shown in the photo, the dust jacket is not good. This is a very good "reading copy" of this title.)

Inventory #14-00-4538

$25.00


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Samplers: Five Centuries of a Gentle Craft

Anne Sebba

ISBN: 0500233004

Thames and Hudson

1979

HC w/ dust jacket   160 pp.

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Used (Like New/Very Good)

Inventory #14-00-4652

$42.00


The Story of Samplers

Marianna Merritt Hornor

ISBN: None

Philadelphia Museum of Art

1971

SC   18 pp. + 48 plates

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Used (Good - Light dampstaining on back cover and minor spots on last few pages; Information and pictures all okay; now in protective cover)

Inventory #14-00-3775

$48.00


Tokens of Love: The Provenance, Purposes and Constituents of English Needlework Samplers. Explaining samplers of Poor Girls, and their life in Poor and Orphan Schools.

Vivian Crellin

ISBN: 0955467209

The Sampler Guild

2006

HC w/ dust jacket   139 pp.

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New (has edgewear to dust jacket)

Inventory #14-00-3973

$65.00


~ Pattern Books ~


Alle meine Blumen: 4. Modelbuch von Rosina Helena Furst nach der letzen Auflage von 1728

Editha Fischer

ISBN: 3980849929

Self-Published

2002

SC   11 pp. + 50 plates   (German text)

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New

Inventory #14-07-EF71

$25.00


Alte Volkskunst Kreuzstich Ein Werkbuch
Adolfine Kulmann-Brandauer

ISBN: 3702004211

Leopold Stocker Verlag

1995

SC   93 pp.   (German text)

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Inventory #14-01-0001

$36.00


An Anonymous Woman: Her Work Wrought in the 17th Century

Kathleen Epstein
ISBN: 0963333119

Curious Works Press

1992

SC   52 pp.

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Used (Good+ - There are two places along the spine that have been damaged giving the book a lightly rippled effect; there is also a small scraped area on the back cover along the bottom edge. The insides and contents are not effected)

Inventory #14-00-4121

$140.00


Animals from Early Samplers

Marsha Van Valin

ISBN: 096447641X

The Scarlet Letter

1997

SC   73 pp.

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Inventory #14-07-SL31

$25.00


Architecture from Early Samplers

Marsha Van Valin

ISBN: 0964476428

The Scarlet Letter

1998

SC   108 pp.

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New

Inventory #14-07-SL34

$26.00


Baroque Charted Designs for Needlework engraved by Johan Sibmacher
ISBN: 0486231860

Dover Publications, Inc.

1975

SC   36 plates

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Used (Very Good - cover wear)

Inventory #14-00-4195

$14.00


The Book of Samplers

Marguerite Fawdry & Deborah Brown
ISBN: 0312090064

St. Martin's Press

1980

HC w/ dust jacket   156 pp.

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Used (Very Good/Very Good - Wear to dj edges)

Inventory #14-00-3608

$22.00


Charted Folk Designs for Cross-Stitch Embroidery

Maria & Andreas Foris
ISBN: 0486231917

Dover Publications, Inc.

1975

SC   77 pp.

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Used (Very Good)

Inventory #14-00-4272

$16.00


Charted Peasant Designs from Saxon Transylvania

edited by Heinz Edgar Kiewe
ISBN: 0486234258

Dover Publications, Inc.

1977

SC   40 plates

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Used (Very Good)

Inventory #14-00-4163

$60.00


Charted Swiss Folk Designs

Collected by Elvira Parolini-Ruffini

ISBN: 0486235742

Dover Publications, Inc.

1978

SC   32 pp.

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Used (Very Good)

Inventory #14-00-3633

$12.00


Cross Stitch Patterns

Irmgard Gierl
ISBN: 0684152320

Charles Scribner's Sons

1973

SC   88 pp.

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Used (Good - Wear to outside covers)

Inventory #14-00-3240

$20.00


Die schonsten Borten, Sterne und Schriften

Elfriede Rottenbacher

ISBN: 3702011366

Leopold Stocker Verlag

2006

SC   35 plates   (German text)

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New

Inventory #14-00-4347

$32.00


Festliche Kreuzstichmuster

Josefine Brogyanyi

ISBN: 9783702011628

Leopold Stocker Verlag

2007

SC   37 plates (German text)

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New

Inventory #14-00-4348

$36.00


Gestickte Bilderbogen

Irmgard Gierl
ISBN: 3893503919

Weltbild Verlag

1991

Pictorial HC   84 pp.   (German text)

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Used (Very Good - lower front right corner bumped; inside pages like new)

Inventory #14-00-4561

$42.00


Gestickte Sinnbilder

Hans-Friedrich Geist
ISBN: 393658818X

Kinderland Verlag

2004

SC   86 pp.   (German text)

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New

Inventory #14-01-0004

$40.00


Gestickte Weisheit: Meditative Kreuzstichmuster

Heide Sondermaier

ISBN: 3931361039

Silberfaden Verlag

1996

Pictorial HC   214 pp.   (German text)

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Used (Like New)

Inventory #14-00-G182

$62.00


Here Be Wyverns

Nancy Spies

ISBN: 0971896003

Arelate Studio

2002

Spiral-bound SC   192 pp.

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New

Inventory #14-09-0003

$30.00


Kreuzstichmuster im Jahreslauf Tradition und Brauchtum

Josefine Brogyanyi
ISBN: 3702010637

Leopold Stocker Verlag

2004

SC   37 plates   (German text)

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Inventory #14-01-0007

$30.00


Leinen: Stickerei und Mustersammlung aus Sudtirol

Anna Wielander-Platzgummer

ISBN: 887283225X

Edition Raetia

2004

HC w/ dust jacket   111 pp.   (German text)

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New

Inventory #14-00-4351

$86.00


Motifs Scandinaves Traditionnels

Valerie Schira

ISBN: 2842705025

Mango Practique

2005

Pictorial HC   127 pp.   (French text)

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New

Inventory #14-02-4383

$42.00


Repertoire des Frises

Valerie Lejeune

ISBN: 2842704096

Mango Practique

2003

SC   205 pp.   (French text)

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New

Inventory #14-02-4545

$45.00


Repertoire des Motifs

Valerie Lejeune

ISBN: 2842703782

Mango Practique

2002

SC   224 pp.   (French text)

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New

Inventory #14-02-4551

$45.00


Stick-Album: Band I

Hilda Menzi-Tanner

ISBN: None

Verlag Schlapfer & Co.

1992

SC   4 pp. + 32 plates   (German text)

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Used (Like New)

Inventory #14-00-G158

$68.00


Symbole im Kreuzstich

Elfriede Rottenbacher
ISBN: 3702008594

Leopold Stocker Verlag

2004

SC   8 pp. + 36 plates   (German text)

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New

Inventory #14-01-0008

$30.00


Traditionelle Thuringer Stickmuster im Kreuzstich

Ingeburg Eberhard, Renate GaBdorf & Erika Karasek

ISBN: None

Information unknown

1983

SC   64 pp.   (German text)

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Used (Very Good)

Inventory #14-00-G191

$74.00


~ Project Books ~


Abecedaires et marquoirs d'antan

ISBN: None

Mains et Merveilles

2003

SC (Magazine format)   67 pp.   (French text)

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New

Inventory #14-00-4013

$24.00


Alte Mustertucher zum Nachsticken

Angelika Walter

ISBN: 3924350825

Buch & Kunstverlag

2000

Pictorial HC   152 pp.   (German text)

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New

Inventory #14-07-BK20

$40.00


Creating Historic Samplers

Judith K. Grow & Elizabeth C. McGrail

ISBN: 0878610693

The Pyne Press

1974

Pictorial HC   127 pp.

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Used (Very Good)

Inventory #14-00-4531

$12.00


Cross-Stitch: Traditional Needle Arts

Katrin Cargill
ISBN: 1571450114

Thunder Bay Press

1994

HC w/ dust jacket   128 pp.

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Used (Very Good/Very Good)

Inventory #14-00-4164

$12.00


Les Marquoirs Anciens de Catherine Pouchelon
ISBN: 2842704959

Mango Practique

2005

Pictorial HC   127 pp.   (French text)

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New

Inventory #14-02-4131

$35.00


Les Samplers en rouge et blanc de Isabelle Vautier
ISBN: 2842705041

Mango Practique

2005

Pictorial HC   63 pp.   (French text)

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New

Inventory #14-00-3937

$32.00


Letter voor Letter

Gieneke Arnolli & Rosalie Sloof

ISBN: 9040090165

Waanders Uitgevers

No date given

Pictorial HC   128 pp.   (Dutch/English text)

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New

Inventory #14-02-4148

$75.00


Making Samplers: New & Traditional Designs

Jutta Lammer
ISBN: 0806955104

Sterling Publishing Co., Inc.

1984

Pictorial HC   96 pp.

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Used (Like New)

Inventory #14-00-4533

$12.00


Marker borduren

Kav Praktische School

ISBN: 9002207743

Standaard Uitgeverij

1998

SC   95 pp.   (Dutch text)

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Used (Like New)

Inventory #14-00-G154

$62.00


Merklappen uit de lage landen

Joke Visser

ISBN: 906113689X

Atrium

1994

HC w/ dust jacket   176 pp.   (Dutch text)

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New

Inventory #14-07-UT40

$35.00


The Proper Stitch

Darlene O'Steen