Road Movies Vol 1 Alice Starmore 1st Edition Hardcover Dust Jacket Knitting
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Road Movies Volume 1: One Woman's Adventures on the Highways and Byways of America Published by Windfall Press (Isle of Lewis, Scotland), 2008 True First Edition / First Printing Hardcover This exceptionally scarce volume presents the brilliant, highly sought-after narrative memoir "Road Movies Volume 1: One Woman's Adventures on the Highways and Byways of America," authored by the internationally acclaimed Scottish textile designer, artist, and master fiber historian Alice Starmore. Published in 2008 under her own private boutique imprint, Windfall Press, in Gress on the Isle of Lewis, Scotland, this exquisite 303-page volume stands as a rare and captivating prose departure from her legendary textile design monographs. Moving seamlessly away from charts and needles, Starmore maps out a rich literary landscape documenting twelve years spent traversing the sweeping expanses of the American highway grid on professional lecture circuits. Financed entirely by her unparalleled expertise in traditional Fair Isle and Celtic knitting techniques, this nomadic odyssey provides a deeply reflective, poetic look at the American geography and its cultural intersections. Issued directly from this small, independent Scottish island press in a highly limited production run, this true trade first edition is bound in premium cloth and accompanied by its original full-bleed photographic dust jacket. It serves as a vital cross-over cornerstone acquisition for textile arts completionists, biblioph
- Publisher: Windfall Press
- Year: 2008
- Condition: Very Good
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