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Burke, Ed. GLASS BLOWING: A TECHNICAL MANUAL.
Crowood, Marlborough, 2005, first edition.
143 pp, small 4to (10 1/2" H), hard cover in dust jacket. ISBN 1861265212 Profusely illustrated with colour photographs, b&w drawings. "No one can fail to be excited by the sight of hot molten glass being blown into shape. This beautiful book ca ptures that excitement and explains with practical detail the secrets of the glass blower's art. Written by Ed Burke, one of the leading glass blowers in the UK, it gives a thorough and complete account of this ancient and compelling art, and c e l e b rates the design potential of this incredibly versatile material. (Covers:) Tools and equipment - includes advice on the tools and workspace required, as well as instruction on designing and building a furnace, annealing oven and glassmaker 's b en ch ; Solid glass objects - introduces basic techniques such as gathering glass from the furnace, shaping glass, blowing a bubble and using the pucellas; Glass blowing - explains how to make tumblers, bowls, vases, wine glasses and jugs, wit h a dvi ce on how to deal with common problems; Colour - covers the different forms of colour, how to use solid, chips and powder as well as basic and advanced techniques; Lavishly illustrated with some 200 photographs and line drawings of step-by-s tep proc ess es and finished examples of studio glass." Light edge wear to boards - mainly on bottom, a few tiny marks on bottom of text block. Dust jacket has light edge wear/wrinkling at top/bottom of spine and flap-folds, very light rubbing. V ery Good/ Very Go od
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32.50 USD
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Lapham, Lewis H., ed. w/Peter T. Struck. Intro. by Simon Schama. (Polybius, Suetonius, Josephus, Nostrdamus, Voltaire, Robespierre, Edmund Burke, Charled Darwin, Karl Marx, Jack London, Siegfried Sassoon, H.L. Mencken, Primo Levi, Rachel Carson, et THE END OF THE WORLD.
St. Martin's, New York, 1998.
297 pp, large 8vo (9 1/4" H), hard cover in dust jacket. ISBN 0312192649 B&w illustrations. "The Romans at Pompeii, the Confederates at Richmond, and the German Jews in 1938 all had reason to believe that the world was ending. But when the storm had passed and the dust had cleared, no matter what the destruction, the world still turned. This fascinating collection contains works by diverse historians including Plato, Thucydides, Pliny, Leonardo da Vinci, John Donne, Freud, Mencken, and P i casso. Mary Chestnut writes in her diary as the Confederacy crumbles around her; Jack London describes the great earthquake that struck San Francisco in 1906; a Bolshevik watches the Winter Palace fall in 1917; a Polish poet fights for food in Au sc hwitz. Soldiers from every major war from ancient Rome through Vietnam march toward death; a writer toils while the Black Plague topples those around him; a monk watches the Aztec empire fall to the Spaniards; the Middle Passage defies human i ty and life. The most famous episodes of human tragedy are described by the men and women who lived. them. With an introduction by Simon Schama, this fully illustrated anthology of first-person accounts of diaster from Thucydides to CNN, from P om pei i to the Holocaust, is as heartbreaking as it is inspiring, as terrifying as it is fascinating." Light wrinkling at top/bottom of spine, tiny dint on bottom edge of rear board. Dust jacket has very minor edge wrinkling, minor rubbing, 2" w rin kle on fr ont panel. Very Good/Very Good+
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20.00 USD
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