Highly Collectible! 1949 First Edition "The Complete Button Book" by Lillian Smith Albert and Kathryn Kent. Hard Cover, Good vintage condition, hundreds of black and white pictures. Published by Doubleday, New York. No dust cover. 409 pages.
Chapters Include:
I Metal Buttons
II Bone, Wood & Leather Buttons
III Wood & Bone Back Buttons
IV Ceramic Buttons
V Enamel Buttons
VI Mosaic Buttons
VII Fabric Buttons
VIII Glass Buttons
IX Pearl Buttons
X Plastic Buttons
XI Cinnabar Buttons
XII Vegetable Ivory Buttons
XIII The Hobby of Button Collecting
Includes Illustrations of: Inanimate Objects, Symbols, Transportation, Buildings, Scenes, Landscapes, Botanical, Insects, Animals, Human Heads and Busts, Human Figures, Music and Opera, Religious Subjects, Oriental Heads and Figures, Equestrian Subjects, Sports and Pastimes, Patriotic and Political, Uniform Buttons, etc.