America's Glorious Quilts

New York: Hugh Lauter Levin Associates, 1987. Cloth, 320 pages, colour illustrations; 38 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Spine slightly rolled at the crown, edges lightly soiled. Dust jacket, with a slightly sunned spine (bold & legible lettering), protected in a mylar book cover. "In April 1986 a the Great American Quilt Festival and Contest was held in New York City. Participants included the country's leading textile designers, authors, teachers, collectors, prizewinning quilters from every state, etc. Many of the entries are included in this publication. Having researched and documented hundreds of quilts, the editors wanted to know what makes a quilt really worth collecting and where some of these quilts can be seen." - Publisher. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. CONTENTS: An American tradition, by Laura Fisher; Quilts: America's folklore, by Deborah Harding; Quilts: the art of the Amish, by Phyllis Haders; Hawaiian quilts, by Lee S. Wild; Quilts--crazy memories, by Virginia Gunn; Baby, crib, and doll quilts, by Pat Long and Dennis Duke; Quilts at an exhibition, by Donna Wilder; Contemporary quilts, by Luella Doss; A quilt-collector's primer, by Celia Y. Oliver; Living with quilts, by Phyllis George Brown.. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Folio.