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Large format paperback, bound in stiff black pictorial wraps. 311 pages. Bibliography, Index. Profusely illustrated with color and black and white photographs. First edition, first printing with full number line. The definitive annual on American furniture design, use, production and appreciation. Articles include: ‘Early Carving in the South Carolina Low Country: The Career and Work of Henry Burnett’; ‘Everyday Things: From Rolling Pins to Trundle Beds’; ‘Tilt-Top Tables and Eighteenth-Century Consumerism’; ‘Provenance, Patronage, and Perception: The Morris Suite of Baltimore Painted Furniture’; ‘The Long Shadow of William Morris: Paradigmatic Problems of Twentieth-Century American Furniture’; ‘From New Bedford to New York to Rio and Back: The Life and Times of Elisha Blossom Jr., Artisan of the New Republic’; and several book reviews. No previous ownership marks. A clean, square, fresh and unmarked copy, as new. Fine. A heavy book, Priority and International orders will require additional postage.