Product Description
314p, octavo.
A very good + copy in a very good dust jacket.
Jacket has wear to extremities - shallow chips on top edge of front panel, nicks, creasing, and closed tears, 2 small nicks on spine, spine sunned.
Boards have minor wear to spine ends and corners.
This is a first edition, and is INSCRIBED by Lucy Morgan to the previous owners on the half title page.
Previous owner's name pasted to front end paper.
Additionally laid in is staplebound pamphlet from the Penland School circa 1966.
Scarce signed.
Lucy Morgan (1889-1981) was a weaver and teacher who found the Penland School of Craft in the 1920s.
The school is located in the Appalachian mountains, not far from Asheville, NC.
Morgan played an important role in the American Craft Revival, and was a leading advocate for Appalachian crafts, even creating an exhibit showcasing the school's work at the Chicago World's Fair.
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