[TheForge] Interesting books from Lee Valley

[Andrew Vida]

I wen't over to Abebooks.com to see what the used resellers had.  I just 
paid $5 for my copy at Powells.  Astrologo books in East Hampton NY 
wants $108!  Anyone know what drives prices like that?  Insanity?

Bruce Freeman wrote:
> Seems to me that Lindsay reprints Schwarzkopf, but I haven't seen a
> reprint of Lilico.
> 
> Both good books.
> 
> Bruce
> NJ
> 
> 
>>>>osan at netlabs.net 1/21/2005 11:42:59 AM >>>
> 
> Speaking of books, while in Portland I stopped into Powell's and picked
> 
> up two old blacksmithing volumes, "Plain and Ornamental Forging" by 
> Schwarzkopf (1916) and "Blacksmith's Manual Illustrated" by Lillico 
> (1960 fourth edition).  Hey, for $10 I couldn't pass them up.  Both are
> 
> full of very good industrial smithing techniques.  Anyone know if they
> 
> are in reprints?
> 
> 	-Andy
> 
> Mike Spencer wrote:
> 
>>Lee Valley Tools has an interesting line of books that you may not
>>have noticed.  The (now retired) founder and former CEO works up
>>reprints of old books relating to wood- and metal-work and other
>>trades and crafts.  Sort of his personal enthusiasm.
>>
>>Mechanics & Metalwork
>>
>>   http://www.leevalley.com/wood/page.aspx?c=1&p=46130&cat=1,46096 
>>
>>Classic Reprints
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>>   http://www.leevalley.com/wood/page.aspx?c=1&p=46100&cat=1,46096 
>>
>>Links to all the books at Lee Valley
>>
>>   http://www.leevalley.com/wood/page.aspx?c=1&cat=1&p=46096 
>>
>>I got _507 Mechanical Movements_ (Harry T. Brown, 1868) for
> 
> Christmas.
> 
>>Paper but with sturdy binding and sewn signatures.  Lots of pics of
>>things like the Scotch yoke and the ellipse-drawing widget someone
>>here was asking about recently.
>>
>>- Mike
>>
> 
> 

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	-Andy V.

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