Lot 8: Collection of Shaker Reference Books

Estimate: $600 – $800
Sold: $354

Two books, Sprigg, June, Shaker Design, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1986, (one book still in cellophane wrap); Darrow School, The Peg Board, First Shaker Number 1936, New Lebanon, NY, Vol. 4, No. 3; Hudson, Norman, Antiques At Auction, A.S. Barnes and Company, New York, 1972, inscribed “To Gerald McCue with thanks for enlivening the bidding on the Shaker items, Dick Withington”, “First Edition Nov. 1972”; Kassay, John, The Book of Shaker Furniture, University of Massachusetts Press, Amherst, 1980, (includes a letter from John Kassay); Schiffer, Herbert, Shaker Architecture, Schiffer Publishing Ltd., Pennsylvania, 1979; Larkin, David, A Shaker Sister’s Drawings, The Monacelli Press, New York, 1997, signed in triplicate “David Larkin, June Sprigg Tooley, Scott Swank”, illustrated by Cora Helena Sarle; Mingei International Museum of World Folk Art, Kindred Spirits, 1995; Lassiter, William L., Shaker Architecture, Bonanza Books, New York, 1966; Horsham, Michael, Shaker Style, JG Press, N. Dighton, MA, 1996; Morin, France, Heavenly Visions: Shaker Gift Drawings and Gift Songs, University of Minnesota Press, 2001, (wrapped in cellophane); Pearson, Elmer R. and Neal, Julia, The Shaker Image, 2nd Ed., signed and limited, No. 66 of 100, published by Hancock Shaker Village, 1994, in a blue slipcase; Richmond, Mary L., Shaker Literature: A Bibliography, Vol. I. By The Shakers, published by Shaker Community, Inc., University Press of New England, Hanover, NH, 1977, (includes an invoice); Richmond, Mary L., Shaker Literature: A Bibliography, Vol. II. About The Shakers, published by Shaker Community, Inc., University Press of New England, Hanover, NH, 1977; Rocheleau, Paul and Sprigg, June, Shaker Built, The Monacelli Press, New York, 1994, a David Larkin Book.