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Books for sale. Box 102.

Thu, 22 Jun 2017 23:57:43 GMT

Box 102. McCall's Quilting, Feb '98-Feb '99;
Quick country quilting;
Quick rotary cutter quilts;
Rotary magic;
101 Nine patch quilts;
Contemporary classics in plaids & stripes;
Colourwash quilts: A personal approach to design and technique;
Tips for quilters plus 63 of your favorite quilt patterns;
Quilt San Diego Visions: quilt expressions;
The quilter's kitchen;
The magical effects of color;
Every embellishments & fun quilts to stitch and embellish;
Liveliy little logs: Making log cabin miniatures;
Flannel quilts;
More quick rotary cutter quilts;
A new slant on Bargello quilts;
The ultimate scrap quilt;
Raw-edge appliqué;
When quilt designers think small;
Daddy's ties;
The patchwork quilt design & coloring book;
Patchwork & quilting;
Keepsake quilting;
Quilting beyond the norm;
Kansas Connections;
Ever more well connected;
Patchwork quiltss: traditional or modern--over 25 full-size patterns rated for the beginner or expert;
Twist 'n turn;
Patchwork for all seasons;
Round two;
Borders by design;
Traditional quilting;
Best quilt tips;
Sashing & borders for quilts;
A year of rad quilts;
Pine Trees quilt projects;
Use it, wear it out, make it do, or do without!;
American Patchwork & Quilting: Scrappy quilts from your stash, etc.;
Fonts & Porter's Love of Quilting, 10 issues;
Connecting Threads, Winter 2007.

(Subject to prior sale.)

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Books for sale, Box 97

Thu, 15 Jun 2017 08:20:46 GMT

Box 97. WordNet: An Electronic Lexical Database;
Perl Cookbook;
The Sound Pattern of English;
Frequency Analysis of English Usage;
Linguistics, 4th ed.;
Wicked Cool Shell Scritp-;
JavaSript: The Definitive Guide;
AppleScript: The Definitive Guide;
Fom Bash to Z Shell: Conquering the Command Line;
Mastering Perl;
Programming for Linguists: Perl for Language Researchers;
McGraw-Hill's Essential English Dictionary.

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Book for sale, box 95

Tue, 13 Jun 2017 22:32:20 GMT

Box 95. Paper Pleasures, by Faith Shannon;
The Great Waldo Search (sold);
Find Waldo Now (sold);
Where's Dan Quayle?;
The rabbit catcher and other fairy tales;
The living world of dance;
The Comics: an illustrated history of comic strip art;
Lady Cottington's pressed fairy book;
Since Stalin: A photo history of our time;
The Chas Addams Mother Goose (two copies);
Some Body!;
The World of Michelango 1475-1564;
Our amazing world of nature;
1776: the illustrated edition, by David McCullough;
The New Yorker 75th Anniversary Cartoon Collection.
[Subject to prior sale.]

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Books for sale, box 94

Mon, 12 Jun 2017 21:42:44 GMT

Box 94. A Bittersweet Season: Caring for Our Aging Parents--and Ourselves, by Jane Gross;
Papal Sin, by Garry Wills;
Christianity: The first three thousand years, by Diarmid MacCulloch;
Unix in a Nutshell;
Google Hacks: Tips & Tools for Smarter Searching;
Programming perl;
Perl, CGI, and Javacript, 2nd ed.;
Esperanto: Learning and Using the International Language;
Essential World English, by Lancelot Hogben;
Alligators in the Sewer and 222 Other Urban Legends;
Vic Obeck's How to exercise without moving a muscle;
isometrics for everyone, by Victor Obeck.
(Titles subject to prior sale, I wrote this inventory list some time ago.)

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Books for sale, box 93.

Mon, 12 Jun 2017 04:54:38 GMT

Box 93. Tell Me, Cat.
Simpson, story by Lee Jones, photography by Guy Gillette;
Cinderella: An Old Favorite with New Pictures;
America's Great Comic Strips: From The Yellow Kid to Peanuts, by Richard Marschall;
Immortals of Science Fiction, by David Wingrove;
Mutts: The Comic Art of Patrick McDonnell;
California: Its Coast and Desert, by Robert Reynolds, text by Ruth Kirk and Archie Satterfield;
A Day in the Life of Italy;
California, by Kat Atkeson and Dvid Muench;
The complete color Polly &
Her Pals by Cliff Sterrett;
Washington II, photography by Ray Atkeson, text by Archie Satterfield;
Smithsonian Timelines of the Ancient World: A visual chronology from the origins of life to AD 1500;
Stephen Biesty's Incredible Cross-Sections;
The World of The Dark Crystal, by Brian Froud;
Colors of the Deep, by Jeffrey L. Rotman;
Voyage Across the Cosmos: A journey to the edge of space and time.

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Books for sale, Box 89

Sat, 10 Jun 2017 18:05:23 GMT

Box 89. Rose is Rose in living color;
Dick Deadeye, by Ronald Searle & Gilbert & Sullivan;
The Night of the Mary Kay Commandos, by Berkeley Breathed;
Masterpiece Comics: Where Classics and Cartoons Collide! Dante - Bronte - The Bard - Voltaire - Wilde - and many more great authors in one giant comic book! by R. Sikoryak;
The Book fo Genesis, illustrated by R. Crumb;
Things are Looking Up, by Lynn Johnston;
It's the Thought That Counts... Fifteenth Anniversary Edition, by Lynn Johnston;
Which way did he go? by Ronald Searle;
The Far Side Gallery 2;
The Far Side Gallery 5;
The Far Side Gallery 4;
Why a Duck? Introduction by Groucho Marx;
George Feyer's Stamp Book;
The People's Doonesbury;
The Authoritative Calvi and Hobbes, by Bill Watterson;
The best cartoons from Punch;
The Punch Line;
Krazy Kat;
George Price's Characters;
What, me Pregnant? by Lynn Johnston;
A mouth full of breath mints and no one to kiss, by Cathy Guisewite;
Attack of the Deranged Mutant Killer Monster Snow Goons by Bill Watterson, two copies;
Mutts: Yesh!;
Our Mutts;
Mutts: A little look-see;
Mutts.

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Books for sale, Box 88.

Fri, 09 Jun 2017 19:51:10 GMT

Box 88. There's treasure everywhere, by Bill Waterson;
The Calvin and Hobbes tenth anniversary book, by Bill Waterson;
Graphic Worlds of Peter Bruegel the Elder;
One last little peak, 1980-1985, by Berkeley Breathed;
Mutts: Sunday afternoons;
Mutts: Sundays;
Mutts: Sunday Evenings;
Mutts: Sunday Mornings;
Survival guide for the nineties;
Dead lawyers and other pleasant thoughts;
Come fight a kite;
Punography Too;
California reefs;
Robert Irwin Getty Garden;
The light of the past;
Enchantment, by Doris and Boris Vallejo;
Frank Frazetta: Book Five;
Built to Last: Grateful Dead 25th Anniversary Album;
The Pulps;
United States Postal Service 1987 Mint Set of Commemorative Stamps;
Brewster Rockett, Space Guy;
Sunshine & Shadow;
"It Must Be Nice to Be Little" by Lynn Johnston;
Graduation: Time for Change, by Lynn Johnston;
Growing Like a Weed, by Lynn Johnston;
Beetley Bailey celebration;
Sound Sleepings in The Neighborhood;
Mutts;
Mutts: I want to be the kitty;
Mutts II: Cats and dogs;
Remembering Farley, by Lynn Johnston.

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Books for sale, box 87.

Tue, 06 Jun 2017 04:43:10 GMT

Box 87. The tall tale cat;
Low & Inside, by Osborn;
George Herriman's Krazy Kat;
The Penguin Book of Comics;
Browse at Your Own Risk, by George Price;
Hello-where did all the people go? by Ronald Searle;
Dreams of the Rarebit Fiend;
"There Goes My Baby!" by Lynn Johnston;
Bloom County Babylon;
Peter Arno;
In Our Time, by Tom Wolfe;
The Ladies, God Bless 'em!, by Helen E. Hokinson;
Herblock on all fronts;
Magill's Quotations in Context;
1776, by David McCullough;
A hundred years of blessing;
The Christmas Junk Book;
Anna Karenina, by Leo Tolstoy;
Behold the spirit;
The Prince & The Discourses, by Niccolò Machiavelli;
Politically, Fashionably, and Aerodynamically Incorrect;
4-wheel Grimmy, Another Mother Goose & Grimm book by Mike Peters;
Bizzaro, by Piraro.

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Books for sale, box 84

Mon, 05 Jun 2017 07:29:37 GMT

Box 84: The Century of Tung Ch'i-ch'ang 1555-1636, by Wai-Kam Ho, vol. I-II, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art/The University of Wsahington Press;
Possessing the Past: The Metropolitan Museum of Art/National Palace Musem, Taipei;
The grammar of chinese ornament;
Great National Treasures of China;
Chinese knotting;
something in Chinese;
China's Rare Flowers;
The Beginnings of Monkey;
Monkey's Conversion;
Catching the Red Boy;
True and False Monkey.

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Books for sale, Box 82.

Sat, 03 Jun 2017 13:18:40 GMT

Box 82. Animal Friendly: A Mutts Treasury;
Call of the Wild: A Mutts Treasury;
Nightmares in the Sky, by Stephen King (Text) and f-stop Fitzgerald (Photographs);
The magnificent continent;
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicles;
Chiricahua National Monument;
Chiricahua, by Janice Emily Bowers, photography by George H.H. Huey;
Starting from Scratch: A For Better or Worse Collection, by Lynn Johnston;
Birds: Their life, their ways, their world;
The World's Last Mysteries;
Matter: LIFE Science Library;
Doonesbury Dossier: The Reagan Years;
Bucky Katt's Big Book of Fun, by Darby Conley;
Herman Treasury 5;
Mutts: What Now;
Music of the Royal Courts;
National Lampoon True Facts, ed. John Bendel;
Ed Fisher's Domesday Book;
The Tough Coughs As He Ploughs the Dough, by Dr. Seuss;
20th-Century Dreams;
something;
Arts & Crafts;
Basil of Baker Street;
A Rather Lovely Inheritance: The Unexpected Adventures of an Incurable Romantic, by C.A. Belmond.

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Box 81. Assorted subjects.

Fri, 02 Jun 2017 20:35:14 GMT

Box 81: Courtly Art of the Ancient Maya;
The Best of Best Cartoons, ed. Lawrence Lariar;
Great Cartoons of the World;
How to Talk to the Deaf, by Dan D. Higgins, C.SS.R.;
Roma;
The movement toward a new America;
Mexico: Splendors of Thirty Centuries;
Art Deco in America;
Story of Mathematics;
The love teachings of Kama Sutra;
Woodstock-Craftsman's Manual;
Rose Windows;
Motel of the Mysteries;
Larousse Encyclopedia of Prehistoric &
Ancient Art;
150 Masterpieces of Drawing;
Beachcomber's Guide;
Beachcomber's Guide to the Pacific Coast;
The Play of Daniel: A thirteenth-century musical drama.

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Box 101. More quilting books.

Fri, 02 Jun 2017 02:10:14 GMT

[Note that 'design' or 'pattern' means 'motif' and not 'instructions' in this context.] Wonderful Wearables;
Trademark designs of the world;
Pattern;
Quick and easy vests & jackets;
The Crafter's pattern sourcebook;
Quilted Clothing;
Quilts to Wear;
Singer Design Series;
Sew Easy Embellishments;
Victorian Stencils;
Great clothing from Sweatshirts, T-shirts & Denim;
Creating Fashion Accessories;
Dressed by the Best: Wearable Art Projects by 10 Well-Known Designers;
Mary Mulari's Accessories with style;
Alphabets & ornaments;
Stylish sewing;
Keepsake transfer collection: The big book, over 1,000 designs;
The ancient and living cultures Stencil Set;
Shirtmaking;
Made for travel;
Sewing with Knits;
Signs, symbols & ornaments;
Color source book of authentic Art Nouveaux (designs?);
Cut My Cote;
Casual Dressing: Sew-free Appliqué Book 5;
Fun-loving wearables;
Floral Patterns: 120 full-color designs in the Art Nouveaux stlye;
Clotilde's Sewing Savvy March 2005;
Pieced clothing;
Junk-Jeans recycled;
The spectacular color floral designs of E.A. Seguy;
Chinese design and pattern in full color;
Floral Patterns: 120 Full-Color Designs in Art Nouveau Style.

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Box 109. Cookbooks.

Wed, 31 May 2017 23:29:48 GMT

Box 109. Crockery cookbook;
The hot and spicy cookbook;
Hershey's chocolate and cocoa cookbook;
Kitchen conversation with Dorothy;
Chocolate cookery;
Adventures in wine cookery, by California Winemakers;
The joy of cheesecake;
French cooking;
Crockery cookery;
The essential Asian cookbook;
Creative wok cooking;
Hot chile cookbook;
Creative sourdough cooking;
Mor make-a-mix (two copies);
Make-a-mix cookery;
Coffee cookery;
Crepe cookery;
How to cook with Herbs, Spices & Flavorings;
100 fabulous cakes and tortes;
Cheese cookery;
Mexican cookery;
Mexican cook book;
Southwest cook book;
The food lover's guide to chocolate;
Betty Crocker's cooking with wien;
Adventures in oriental cooking;
Wook cook book;
Step-by-step pasta cookbook;
Quick & easy dinners;
Barbecue Book.

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Box 80. From my tather's book collecton.

Sat, 27 May 2017 18:33:29 GMT

Box 80: Siles Cartoons;
The art of craft;
Historical atlas of the classical world [sold];
Benjamin Franklin Poor Richard's Alamanacks illustrated by Norman Rockwell;
Asterix the Gaul;
Masquerade by Kit Williams;
Alberic the Wise and other journeys;
How to hold a crocodile;
The big book of American humor;
An informal gathering... by Oliphant;
Fuzzy Logic by Darby Conley;
Blueprint for disaster, by Darby Conley;
Get Fuzzy, by Darby Conley;
Companies that changed the world;
Sense Relaxation: Below Your Mind;
Private Eye's Romantic England;
Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain;
Gessar-Khan: A Legend of Tibet;
Psychology;
Psychology: Understanding human behavior, McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc. 1958.

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Box 99. Paper, paper-making, and "found object" crafts.

Wed, 24 May 2017 09:45:34 GMT

The art and craft of papier mâché
Summer wildcrafts;
The complete book of Papercrafts;
Natural impressions;
Papercraft of the World;
Papercrafts and Origami;
Making & Decorating Your Own Paper;
Greeting Cards from A to Z;
Nature crafts with a Microwave;
Natural crafts from America's backyards;
Paper crafts;
Step-by-step printmaking;
The weekend crafter series: Gourd crafts;
Papier mâché;
It's a Snap!;
Folk Art Gifts;
The Scrap Craft project book;
Patchwork Puzzle Balls;
Retro Revamp;
Napkin decoupage: simple, clever, effective;
More crafts for fun;
The button make;
Collage and Assemblage;
Art from found materials;
Pack 'n' go puzzles in plastic canvas;
Sock bunnies;
Darling dowel dolls;
Year round welcome in plastic canvas;
Quick & Easy Scrap Projects;
More about Decoupage;
Masterpices in paper;
Travel Totes & Bags;
Clotilde's Sewing;
Paercraft;
Herb & Spice Decorations (two copies);
Puppet Pals.

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Box 108. Cookbooks.

Wed, 24 May 2017 00:39:52 GMT

Box 108. Russian, Polish & German Cooking (sold);
Essential slow cooker recipes;
The cooking of the British Isles;
American Cooking: SOuthern Style;
Celebrate;
Quick, Light and Healthy;
Cooking for two;
Soup: an international cookbook;
Wok appetizers;
Fit, Fresh & Fast flavors from Florida;
Red, White & Blue: Winning Recipes from the past year's Top Recipe Contests & Food Fesivals;
The Portable Feast;
Cocina Fresca;
In the kitchen with Rosie, by Rosie Daley;
Foundations of Food Preparation;
The best bread machine cookbook ever;
Culinary Crafting;
The Garlic Lover's Cookbook;
Fat free living family cookbook;
The Great American peanut butter book.

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More books, including comix and old comics. Box 84.

Tue, 23 May 2017 18:45:36 GMT

Box 86. Comix: A History of Comic Books in America;
Bringing Up Father;
Corduroy;
Browse at Your Own Risk, by George price;
AD&D Fiend Folio;
Faeries;
Super Crossword Book #13;
The Best of Li'l Abner;
Mister Boffo: Unclear on the concept;
Speaking of Mrs. McCluskie;
Cats at work;
The big book of Life's Instructions;
Understanding Comics;
Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs;
50 Great myths of popular psychology;
The story of Edgar Sawtelle;
You are not so smart;
The Day after Tomorrow.

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More Xmas crafts. Box 15.

Tue, 23 May 2017 09:10:47 GMT

Box 15: Decorating Craft Ideas for Christmas 1983;
Christmas Handcrafts Book Two;
Christmas Handcrafts Book Four;
Joy to the World: A Treasury of Christmas Crafts (two copies);
Christmas Quilts;
Favorite Christmas Quilts;
Quilted for Christmas;
Wool Angels.
[Not pictured:]
The Magic of Santas;
Christmas Quilt Traditions;
Angel Ornaments in a Hurry;
Holiday Mugs;
Merry Mugs;
Christmas Entertaining;
Christmas Traditions;
In the Nick of Time!;
Christmas Cooking from the Heart;
Simple Fabric Folding for Christmas;
Christmas Cooking From The Heart, volumes 6,7,9-11,13,14,22;
Christmas Together;
Decorating for Christmas;
Old-Fashioned Christmas Crafts.

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Box 96. My father's books.

Mon, 22 May 2017 18:28:02 GMT

Box 96. When Art Became Fashion;
Image of China, by William Alexander;
Treasures from The Bronze Age of China: The Metropolitan Museum of Art (two copies);
The Cartoon History of the Universe II, by Larry Gonick;
Unix for Mac;
Geometric Design and Ornament;
The Cartoon History of the Universe III, by Larry Gonick;
The Cartoon Guide to Genetics;
The Cartoon guide to Statistics;
The works of Jane Austen;
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies;
Mac OS X Internals;
JavaScript: The GOod Parts;
Information Retrieval: Data Structures &
Algorithms;
Programming in Objective-C 2.0.

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More craft books. Box 100

Mon, 22 May 2017 00:56:46 GMT

Box 100. Scrap crafts for all occasions;
Decoserging;
Crafting & decorating made simple;
Herbal pleasures;
Fantastic fabric folding;
The paper jewelry book;
On the surface;
Sew special fat quarter gifts;
Woodworking projects II;
Windows & Skylights (two copies);
Making lovable teddy bears & their clothes;
Beginniner's guide to braiding;
Stray sock sewing;
Oldies but goodies;
Appliqué;
Folding paper puppets;
Contemporary decoupage;
Contemporary batik and tie-dye;
Design and figure carving;
looseleaf binder full of instructions and clippings including Paper twist wreaths, counted cross-stitch patterns, "How to Measure," "A flourish of bandboxes", a Kimono pattern;
Let's make windsocks;
Let's make seasonal windsocks;
Art Jewelry magazine;
Bead and pearl jewelry;
macramé...crochet...two-needles;
Sew News;
Bead Style;
Sweaters for everyone;
easy knitting;
Flower-Pot Dolls;
counted cross-stitch patterns;
Bridal & anniversary party favors;
Terrariums;
Bow around a wreath;
Finger puppet patterns.

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Shakespeare books from the homestead, box 85.

Sun, 21 May 2017 07:35:49 GMT

Box 85: Shakespeare in performance;
The Globe Illustrated Shakespeare: The Complete Works Annotated;
Richard III by Anthony Cheetham;
The Shakespeare Wars;
Asimov's Guide to Shakespeare;
Shakespeare: The invention of the human;
Kenneth Branagh: Hamlet;
Will in the World;
Richard III by Ian McKellen.

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Family books, box 83.

Sat, 20 May 2017 05:11:47 GMT

Box 83. The Known and the Unknown;
Dance of death;
Great Comics syndicated by the Daily News-Chicago Tribune;
Invertebrate Indentification Manual;
Earthquake Country;
Bram Stoker's Dracula: The Film and the Legend;
N. V. Gogol, selected works;
Tony Sarg's Book for Children from six to sixty;
Eloise: The absolutely essential edition;
Eloise in Moscow;
Treasures from the Cloisters and the Metropolitan Museum of Art;
Kovarsky's World, cartoons by Anatol Kovarsky;
The Pick of Punch, an annual selection, ed. Nicolas Bentley, introduction by P.G. Wodehouse;
Los Angeles: Improbable City;
Slovenly Peter, or Pretty stories and funny pictures for little children, by Heinrich Hoffmann;
The best of James Herriot;
What's the good word? by William Safire;
Never suck a dead man's hand: Curious Adventures of a CSI, by Dana Kollman;
Visitors from Oz, by Martin Gardner;
String Figures and How to Make Them.

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Books of my father. Box 98.

Sat, 20 May 2017 01:33:12 GMT

Box 98. Vital Statistics;
The Day after Tomorrow, by Allan Folson;
The Sword and the Shield (history of the KGB);
The Teacher's Word Book of 30,000 Words;
Guns, Germs, and Steel;
A Starter Garden;
A Beautiful Mind;
Einstein, by Walter Isaacson;
Mac OS X Tiger for Unix Geeks;
Oxford Advanced American Dictionary for learners of English;
Politically Correct Holiday Stories;
Once Upon a More Enlightened Time;
Politically Correct Old Testament Stories.

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Big books from the homestead (box 92)

Sat, 20 May 2017 01:10:31 GMT

Box 92. Movie Posters: The Paintings of Batiste Madalena. [Not pictured, click to advance to see each photo:] Satellite Atlas of the World;
Reader's Digest Atlas of the World. Rand McNally Maps;
The Hudson River School: The Landscape Art of Berstadt, Cole, Church, Durand, Heade and twenty other artists, by Louise Minks;
African Textiles, by Christopher Spring, with forty full-color plates;
The Illustrated Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams, Harmony Books, New York;
Great Treasurers of Pompeii &
Herculaneum, by Theodore M. Feder;
Treasures of American Folk Art;
Premier Atlas of the World by Rand McNally Company, 1924.

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Mom's craft library: a box of quilting books. (Box 91)

Fri, 19 May 2017 20:10:34 GMT

Box 91. Quilting books. Quilting Around the World;
Quilt Block Leftovers;
Quick Rotary Cutter quilts;
Creative Patchwork;
Easy does it! Quilts;
Debbie Mumm's Country Quilts for All Occasions;
Birds & Bees;
Colorful Angles: Triangles, Diamonds and Hexagons with a Contemporary Look;
A new look at Log Cabin quilts;
Scrapmania: More quick pieced scrap quilts;
A Log Cabin notebook;
Quilting for People who STILL don't have time to quilt;
The visual dance: Creating spectacular quilts;
Quilting up a storm;
101 Log Cabin blocks;
Our best sesonal quilts;
Convergence quilts;
Great America Quilts 1993;
Rodale's successful quilting library: Innovative Piecing;
Maggie Lane's Oriental Patchwork;
Rodale's successful quilting library: Sensational Sets \& Borders;
Rodale's successful quilting library: Fast \& Fun Machine Quilting;
Rodale's successful quilting library: Fantastic Finishes;
Bargello Quilts;
Contemporary Classic in Plaids & Stripes;
Mary Mashuta's Confetti Quilts;
Summertime Quilts: Fresh Designs in Chenille;
Suzanne McNeill's 50 Best Scrap Happy Fabrice Treasures;
String Quilts with Style;
Quick-Method Quilts;
New Wave Quilt Collections;
Speed-cut quilts;
Three-dimensional pieced quilts;
Quilts for All Seaons: Year-round Log Cabin Designs;
Yes you can! make stunning quilts from simple patterns.

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