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Vintage Tables & Chairs Furniture You Can Make Vandervoort Lane 2 PB Woodwork. Content overview: Easy-to-make Tables & Chairs focuses on designs for small and large tables, benches, and chairs for kitchens, dining areas, family rooms, and patios, with sections on choosing styles, lumber selection, joinery, cutting, assembly, and finishing. Vintage Tables & Chairs Furniture You Can Make Vandervoort Lane 2 PB Woodwork Glossy photo-illustrated soft covers on both volumes show moderate shelf and handling wear with surface rubbing, spine and cover creases (heavier across the Furniture You Can Make front panel), small edge nicks, and spine-end scuffing, plus some curling and corner tip softening. Text block edges are uniformly age-toned with light dust soiling and slight waviness from handling, and interior pages display consistent tanning with a few scattered small foxing spots on early and late leaves; pages are clean, fully legible, and free of writing, highlighting, or underlining. Bindings for both paperbacks remain intact and secure with no loose or missing pages, and the vintage Sunset woodworking guides are offered as a two-book softcover lot without any inserts or supplemental media. Brand/Publisher: Lane Publishing Co. of Menlo Park, California, issuing these Sunset Books softcover woodworking guides for the United States market. Title and author: Easy-to-make Tables & Chairs and Furniture You Can Make, both edited by Donald W. Vandervoort and prepared by the editors of Sunset Books and Sunset Magazine as practical manuals for building home furniture. Format and design: Pair of vintage perfect-bound paperbacks in the Sunset Books series, each with a color photo-illustrated front cover (one showing a simple wood table and chairs in a bright room, the other a man assembling a sling-style chair), printed in black-and-white on cream-toned paper with line drawings, measured diagrams, and step-by-step project photographs; issued without dust jackets as typical for trade softcovers. Content overview: Easy-to-make Tables & Chairs focuses on designs for small and large tables, benches, and chairs for kitchens, dining areas, family rooms, and patios, with sections on choosing styles, lumber selection, joinery, cutting, assembly, and finishing. Furniture You Can Make broadens the scope to include indoor and outdoor projects such as sofas, beds, storage pieces, benches, and garden seating, along with shop tips, conversion tables, and tool and fastener reference charts. Topics and audience: Nonfiction do-it-yourself woodworking and furniture construction guides in the Sunset leisure and home improvement line, intended for adult hobbyists, homeowners, and beginning to intermediate woodworkers seeking straightforward plans, illustrated instructions, and ideas for building their own functional tables, chairs, and other household pieces. Identifiers and publication details: Both volumes are English-language softcovers originally issued in the 1970s by Lane Publishing under the Sunset Books imprint, with original cover prices of $2.95 for Easy-to-make Tables & Chairs and $1.95 for Furniture You Can Make, and back matter advertising related Sunset building, remodeling, and hobby titles. Additional notes: Listing includes the two Sunset paperback volumes Easy-to-make Tables & Chairs and Furniture You Can Make as shown; there are no autographs, dust jackets, or supplemental media beyond the bound softcover books. 9338