ISBN10: 0589013432, ISBN13: 9780589013431, [publisher: Wellington: Reed, 1981, Wellington] Hardcover 1st. 31cm By 24.5cm. Here two NZers pre-eminent in their specific fields, Blumhardt crafts, Brake photography, collaborated here to present a wonderful tribute top NZ contemporary craftspeople. The disciplines covered are fibre, paper and plastics, art, stone and bone, metal, wood, clay and glass, followed by profiles of the 133 artists whose work is mentioned in Blumhardt's text and Brake's pictures. The production of the book is also a tribute to the craft of printing. 294 pages, 250 phorographs, 200 in colour, the vast majority full page. Black hard covers with gilt front/spine titles VG+, small inked gift inscription top title page, text block otherwise NF. Colour pict DJ with white main titles VG+ with few light creases top edges, corners. This large, heavy book is 1.9kgs unpacked, extra shipping costs could apply.
[Tauranga, BOP, New Zealand] [Publication Year: 1981]

Wellington A. H. & A. W. Reed 1981 First printing Hardcover Near Fine in near fine jacket First edition, 1981. Quarto, cloth hardcover in dust jacket, 294 pp., heavily illustrated (much in color), clean unmarked text, Near Fine copy in Near Fine dust jacket, light edgewear to the dust jacket. Dust jacket housed in archival dust jacket protector.