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Nantucket Spirit: The Art and Life of Elizabeth Rebecca Coffin
by Margaret Moore Booker, is an accomplished biography of the Nantucket artist. Thirty-two color plates of Coffin's artwork are included.
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Art on Nantucket
by Robert di Curcio, is a sumptuously illustrated account of Nantucket as an artistic subject.
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Summer, Nantucket Drawings
by Rose Gonnella. Pastels of Island scenes.
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Nantucket Notables
Faces and places on the Faraway Island by popular Nantucket artist, Kerry Hallam.
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Picturing Nantucket
edited by Michael Jehle. This large volume includes essays by experts in various fields of Nantucket art as well as a complete catalog of paintings held in the Nantucket Historical Association collection; lavishly illustrated.
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Lightship Baskets of Nantucket
by Martha R. Lawrence. Beautiful color illustrations support this definitive guide to the popular baskets. Historic and modern examples as well as a section on how to make them are included.
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Scrimshaw: A Whaler's Legacy
by Martha Lawrence, presents the story of scrimshaw with many illustrations and color photographs on whaling and Nantucket.
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A Nantucket Chistmas
by Leslie Linsley. The lifestyle maven offers in text and full-color photos decorations, crafts, recipes, design ideas and holiday traditions for a Nantucket Christmas.
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Tell Me About Your Dreams
by Elizabeth A Lochtefeld
combines passages about dreams with the author’s father’s quirky drawings- most with Nantucket themes.
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At Home in Nantucket
by Lisa McGee with photographs by Paul Whicheloe. This tour of the interiors of 16 private residences and of the inspriation behind their decor, organized by seasons, is a testament to the breadth of taste, interests and creativity on Nantucket.
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Sailors’ Valentines
by Madeira, Miller,
Page and Schutt is the definitive book on the history and lore of this important decorative art. More than 200 color photographs, maps drawings
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Scrimshaw, a Complete Illustrated Manual
by Steve Paszkiewicz and Rodger Schroeder. This is an illustrated guide to the art of scrimshawing.
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Saving Sconset
has been put together by the Sconset Trust to educate residents and visitors about the beauty and fragility of this historic village. Lovely color photos.
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Dear Mr. Jefferson: Letters from a Nantucket Gardener
by Laura Simon, is a delightful, imaginary correspondence with Thomas Jefferson in which she relates the joys of her Nantucket garden.
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The Lightship Baskets of Nantucket
by David Wood. The catalog of the first-ever Nantucket Historical Association exhibition of baskets. Two introductory essays accompany the superb full-color photographs by Jack Weinhold.
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