Five
star review The Pipe Companion: A Connoisseur's Guide (Companion)
by David Wright "In Eastern North America, the earliest pipes date from the middle Woodland period-about 500 B.C. to 500 A.D.
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The Perfect Pipe by H. Paul Jeffers, Kevin Gordon
(Illustrator)This celebration of the art of pipe smoking starts with a history of tobacco
and pipes, surveys kinds and types of pipes and how they're made, and
includes a gallery of famous pipe smokers, pipe accessories, and
more. of color photos. Over 100 b&w photos and line drawings. This book has 2 very
long reviews. Although the first is a bit mixed the skeptic still recommended this
book to his pipe club, with notes about some historical mistakes. The second is a 5
star review all the way. review by amazon.com Click on picture to read more about this book or order it.
Smoke shop Magazine
Richard Carleton Hacker is...one of the most prolific pipe and cigar book writers of the 20th century...
Product Description:
The author who reintroduced America to pipe smoking has done it again with his newest book. The 165-page
soft cover contains over 90 never before-seen color and black & white photographs with chapters on
pipe making, buying, smoking (including a step-by-step guide to lighting up), tobaccos, and a "Tobacco Taster's Menu of Blends," describing over 100 commercially available pipe blends. There is even a
Pipe smoker's Sourcebook with publications and organizations.
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Collecting
Antique Meerschaum Pipes : Miniature to Majestic
Sculpture (Schiffer Book for Collectors) by Ben Rapaport. A reader from Brookline,
MA , March 20, 1999 A "must read" book for pipe collectors. As a
collector and admirer of meerschaum pipes, this is the book I've been waiting for. The
author, Ben Rapaport, is well known among antique pipe fanciers for his earlier works,
including the standard work, Complete Guide to Collecting Antique Pipes (which discusses
all types of antique pipes not just meerschaums, published in 1979 and recently reprinted)
and the lovely and informative Museum of Tobacco Art and History Guidebook (1996).But his
newly published book, Collecting Antique Meerschaum Pipes, is in a class by itself.
Although Rapaport is the leading authority in this area, he primarily lets the pipes do
the talking. Of the 176 pages, the first 50 contain
the scholarly background which
addresses the questions of how, who, why
and where these pipes were created. But
even in this section at least half of the pages are dedicated to wonderful photographs of
pipes, old catalogs, craftsmen and workshops. review by amazon.com Click on link to read more about this
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Book
Description
This is the first American book to consider the history and
development of the tobacco-smoking pipe as an art form and is an illustrated
guide for pipe collectors. Here the author has assembled fact and fancy, history
laced with humor, and a chronological collection of pipes. The accompanying text
explains pipe styles, materials, and values. Besides present-day briars and corn
cobs, pipes can be found made of meerschaum, porcelain, ivory, amber, silver,
gold, semi-precious stones and rare woods. Craftsmen have combined imagination,
whim, and fantasy to create pipes of fine artistic value.