Hobbies

Hardcover. New York, Ridge Press/Macmillan, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 251 pages. Illustrated with full color photographs. price clipped dust jacket shows standard wear. Clean, tight copy. Bil Baird, a master puppeteer of our time, recounts the history of his art, from its remotest yesterday to its bright and promising tomorrow. Along the way, he examines the famous and outrageous Mr. Punch, the raucous Karaghioz, the noble knights of the Orlando legend, the lovely shadow plays of Asia, the unique Bunraku puppets of Japan, and the exciting developments in today's puppetry around the world. To which we would like to add: There has never been any book to compare with this one. It remains the classic text on the history of puppetry around the world. It has dozens of amazing photographs, and a very lucid text written by one of the great master puppeteers of our time.

Softcover. Cotati, Outer Straubville Press, 2nd Printing, 1972, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 168 pages. Softcover. 2nd printing. Previous owners bookplate on inside front cover. Fading to spine. Light wear along edges. Clean, unmarked text.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, PA, Running Press, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 159 pages, color photographs throughout. Light edge wear to dust jacket. Previous price sticker on rear cover. Else a very clean, tight copy. Provides instructions and techniques for working with interior and exterior dollhouse designs, discusses tools and equipment, and offers advice on finding decorating ideas.

Softcover. Fort Lee NJ, Model Shipways, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 32-page stapled booklet, illustrated with many line drawings and diagrams. Green paper wrappers. Clean.

Hardcover. Boston , David R. Godine , reprint , 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 110 pages, hardcover. Color illustrated dust jacket with blue cloth covers. Extensive color and black and white illustrations though out. Illustrated end pages and flyleaves. (Originally published in 1984). Previous owner's notation on half-title page otherwise clean, minor wear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. Burlington, VT, Self-published, 1st Edition, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 313 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Color title page. Edition limited to 1000 copies. Previous owner's ID label on front flyleaf. Decorated, clean endpapers. Dust jacket unclipped, dust jacket has some light shelf wear, very good. Red cloth cover boards, gilt title on spine and title and design on front cover board. Pages unmarked. Spine straight. Binding tight. Beautiful, clean copy. Previous owner's notes on notepaper and original typed book review laid in. The only comprehensive compendium of information concerning early Vermont silversmiths, clock and watchmakers and jewelers. Also includes 4 separate chapters detailing the craft of watchmaking.

Hardcover. New York, Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 2nd pr., 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 125 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Light brown fabric covered boards in good shape, clean inside. Dust cover age worn, in protective plastic. Pages and edges lightly yellowed with age. From the front flap: "The now extinct world of the blacksmith is recreated here in more than a hundred superbly detailed drawings and colorful text. Unlike many nostalgic accounts based on myth and romance, this book presents a historically accurate picture of the late-nineteenth-century New England smith, who daily performed the miracle of transforming lumps of re-hot iron into objects of utilitarian function."