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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. 258 pp. Lightly rubbed on the corners with a flat uncreased spine; no interior markings. This anthology contains: Unsound Variations by George R. R. Martin; Midnight by the Morphy Watch by Fritz Leiber; Unicorn Variation by Roger Zelazny; The Marvelous Brass Chessplaying Automaton by Gene Wolfe; The Immortal Game by Poul Anderson; A Game of Vlet by Joanna Russ; A Board in the Other Direction by Ruth Berman; Von Goom's Gambit by Victor Contoski; Kokomu by Daniel Gilbert; Moxon's Master by Ambrose Bierce; Rendezvous 2062 - a poem by Robert Frazier; Reflections on the Looking Glass - an essay by Fred Stewart; and Without a Thought by Fred Saberhagen. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: VG/VG. Dusty rose stamped cloth, blue & color illustrated dust jacket, color illustrated end pages, 428 pp., 510 color illustrations. "Presents more than two hundred examples of American folk art and decorative arts created in New England, New York, Pennsylvania, and Virginia in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Drawn from the extraordinary Jane Katcher Collection, the book features familiar expressions of Americana -- portraits and carvings, quilts and needlework, weathervanes and whirligigs, family records and calligraphy, mocha ware and spatter ware, furniture, baskets, and toys -- as well as the unexpected -- valentines, friendship albums, and keepsakes woven from the hair of loved ones." (dj) With many essays by a variety of experts.

Condition: Good. 4to Original wrappers. 56 pp.+ inserts Elaborate graphic design and production throughout. Cover design by Gustav Jensen. One leaf (53-54) neatly cut with 1/4 removed! Else Very good.Includes:"Enough Rope" A Photograph by Howard Lester.Building Good Will with Good Design by Abbott Kimball. Work by Norman Bel Geddes, Howe & Lescaze, Eugene Schoen, Etc.Photograms by Walter Redding.Imagination for Sale by Egmont Arens.He Who Has Eyes To See by M. F. Agha. Four Posters by Sepo.Windows in Miniature by George H. Allen.Beautiful Bottles by Roy SheldonNew Homes?New Markets by Walter Dorwin Teague. Residences by Howe & Lescaze, Walter Dorwin Teague, George J. Adams, Carl Wiedemeyer, And The C. H. Wolfe House by R. M. Schindler.Exhibition Of 50 Outstanding Advertisments Held by Art Directors Club Of New York.All Dressed Up by Amos Stote.Mailing Piece for Strathmore Paper Company designed by Catherine Mellen.Two Displays designed In The Modern Manner.Book Review?"Mise En Page" by A. Tolmer. Well illustrated with Six Photographs.Contributors to this Issue.Full-Page Insert: Design Check List, Designed by Huxley House.Full-Page Hand Colored Insert designed and Produced by the Nelson Hughes Company.Provenance : Estate of CCAC/CCA professor Steve Reoutt, who passed away May 14, 2008. He was born in 1938 in Shanghai to Russian parents. He came to the United States when he was just 12 years old. He went on to co-found the San Francisco chapter of the AIGA, including serving a nine-year board position as design historian. In 2001 Reoutt received the AIGA Fellowship award for "personal and professional contributions to raising the standards of excellence within our design community.".