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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent unused condition. Images are beautiful bright and vivid. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> Farm-stand fresh-but the last of it infused our supper filling us with gratitude. It is now the midnight here at the house we rent out all season and then recapture on weekends as the vacationers retreat. Here at the edge of the sea waves crash on the shore waves as repetitious as the tides waves rolling out an ancient lullaby. Labor Day is tomorrow. We’re just down to Delaware via New Jersey where each month love and duty call me home to my beloved mother. She about to turn 95 is sweetly proud of her longevity despite life’s hardships. I’ve just awoken in the dark. The majestic sea sound pulled me from sleep pulled me to wake and write enveloped in night’s stillness. Its magic lifts me from dream-realms to practical thoughts-this book to be written. I did not expect to write yet another book on Baltimore’s antebellum Album Quilts. Albums because they are collections of different quilt blods. often appliqued by many hands. Wondrously close the sea pounds audibly. I consider why this vintage style captures quiltmakers once again on such a scale of time and distance as to be dubbed a “quilt revival.” Quilted Albums of historic and artistic fame flourished with inscribed dates from 1844 to 1856 in Baltimore City Maryland. This current Baltimore Album revival move- ment (1981 to present) spans seas and presses on past three decades in duration. Perhaps the sea is an apt metaphor for the original Baltimores-rare among historica rich art style remains poten (LL)