Art&DesignSpring2025

PostmortemCollectibles C. L.Miller. Aremarkable array of collectible items includes embalmingproducts and instruments, photos of funeral homes and funeral processions, promotional materials, postcards, and originalpostmortemphotos.Caskets,floralarrangements, burial garments, mourning etiquette, and more. • 11" x 8 1/2" (279 x 215mm) • 198 color photos, 135 b/w photos • 160 pp. • 978-0-7643-1330-1 • PB • $29.95 / £27.99 / $42.95 CAD The Upside of Undertaking Catherine Olen. Ever wonder what goes on behind closed doors at your local cemetery or funeral home? You won’t want to put down this delicious collection of real life tales of mortuary ex- periences. Read hilarious stories of the dead and living that will keep you laughing for hours • 6" x 9" (152 x 228 mm) • 20 b/w illustrations • 96 pp. • 978-0-7643-3586-0 • PB • $12.99 / £11.99 / $17.99 CAD Zombie Nation: From Folklore to Modern Frenzy E. R. Vernor. Go on a hunt for the facts, folklore, and fiction about zombies from the 1800s to popular culture. Zombie related research, interviews, themed goods, movie and TV stories, and other mania culture features. Learn to use make- up to become a zombie! In all, it’s a good day to be undead. • 6" x 9" (152 x 228 mm) • 80 b/w & color images • 112 pp. • 978-0-7643-4450-3 •HC • $19.99 / £18.99 / $28.99 CAD The Big Book of Flax: A Compendium of Facts, Art, Lore, Projects and Song Christian and Johannes Zinzendorf. Learn the fascinating story of the flax to linen process in history, legend, song, crafts, lesson plans, and recipes. With 414 images, this comprehen- sive book offers suggestions for flax projects, collect- ing flax-related tools and clothing, and planting and harvesting flax • 9" x 12" (228 x 304 mm) • 414 im- ages • 240 pp. • 978-0-7643-3715-4 • HC • $59.99 / £54.99 / $85.00 CAD Down by the Feed Mill: The Past and Present of America’s Feed Mills and Grain Elevators David Hanks. Covering a time frame of more than 150 years, illuminating text explains what feed mills and grain elevators do, and their traditional importance to American townspeople, economies, and heritage. More than 240 evocative photos create a visual record of a changing, and passing, American institution • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279 mm) • 305 images • 208 pp. • 978-0- 7643-5293-5 • HC • $34.99 / £31.99 / $48.99 CAD Linen: From Flax Seed to Woven Cloth Linda Heinrich. Follow the saga of this remarkable fiber from seed to woven fabric. Learn about flax cultivation, processing and spinning, natural and synthetic dyeing, and weaving and finishing linen cloth. 233 color and 156 black-and-white photos and drawings reveal the characteristics of linen • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279 mm) • 233 color photos 156 b/w photos & drawings • 232 pp. • 978-0-7643-3466-5•HC•$49.99 / £45.99 / $72.00CAD Living Crafts, Historic Tools: The Craftspeople and Collections of the Landis Valley Museum Michael Emery and Irwin Richman. This book celebrates the hand tool as a medium of expression and salutes those who wield it with skillful pride. Simple but re- sourceful, each tool was a beautiful, clever marriage of form and function endowed with a life of its own and uniquely forged and perfectly suited for its purpose. • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279 mm) • 592 images • 160 pp. • 978-0-7643-4297-4•PB•$29.99 / £27.99 / $42.99CAD The Farm: An American Living Portrait Joan and David Hagan. Beautiful images capture glimpses of everyday chores, the bountiful land, the unique and varied architecture, and the lives of the people, animals, and crops they support • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279 mm) • 225 color photos • 160 pp. • 978-0-88740-259-3 • PB • $29.95 / £27.99 / $42.95 CAD This Was Wheat Farming Kirby Brumfield. The lore of the harvest is the keynote of Brumfield’s presentation. He approaches this vast subject with considerable fa- cility, lifting farming right out of the soil into fascinating history, with an accent on the Northwest. Wheat in the Northwest? Yes, it’s all here: acres of it in Oregon, Washington, and Idaho, all graded and sacked • 81/2" x 11" (215 x 279 mm) • 293 vintage photos • 192 pp. • 978-0-7643-0188-9 • PB • $19.95 / £18.99 / $28.95 CAD Yesterday’s Farm Tools & Equipment Irwin Richman and Michael Emery. Hundreds of old farm tools and equipment from America’s past. Major chapters cover haying, grains, tobacco, orchards, poultry, dairy, and horses and mules in farm practices. These objects are preserved at the Landis Valley Museum in PA, where they tell of American farm history. • 11" x 8 1/2" (279 x 215mm) • 614 images • 208 pp. • 978-0-7643-3603-4 • HC • $39.99 / £36.99 / $56.99 CAD Aerial Firefighting Wolfgang Jendsch. The aircraft used around the globe to fight forest and open-range fires are presented here in more than 400 color photos, many showing them in action. Includes airtankers, firefighting helicopters, transports, and direction and command planes. The text provides tactical descriptions of actions taken in the field • 9" x 12" (228 x 304 mm) • 415 color photos • 352 pp. • 978-0-7643-3068-1 •HC• $39.99 / £36.99 / $56.99 CAD Cut & Run Logging Mike Monte. Between the 1880s and 1940s, the wooded landscape in the northern Great Lakes region of America was irreversibly and completely changed, along with the society and ecology. Meet the lumberjacks, river pigs, and railroad loggers • 11"x81/2" (279 x215mm) •168b/wphotos•128pp. •978-0-7643- 1529-9 • PB • $19.99 / £18.99 / $28.99 CAD Early Logging Tools Kevin Johnson. More than 330 photos display collectible logging equipment, including axes, saws, filing tools, springboards, oil bottles, un- dercutters, wedges, marlin spikes, drag saws, and chainsaws. Historical photos show loggers at work • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279mm) • 333 color & 12 b/w photo • 160 pp. • 978-0-7643-2740-7 • PB • $29.95 / £27.99 / $42.95 CAD Glory Days of Logging RalphW. Andrews. Chronicles logging in the Northwest US and Canada. This book contain the best photographs of a dozen famous collec- tions: Davis and Benson rafts, river drives, hand logging spar topping big wheels in the pine, saw mills of 1890– 1915, historical ox teams, tractors, and blumes. In this chronicle of bunk house ballads, humorous sketches, and eyewitness accounts the reader will feel the old logging atmosphere. • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279 mm) • 213 pho- tos • 176 pp. • 978-0-88740-593-8 • PB • $15.99 / £14.99 / $22.99 CAD Logging Long Ago: Historic Postcard Views Mary Martin, Edward Thompson & Tina Skinner. Follow the history of logging as it unfolds across the United States, from the virgin forests of the east, to the towering redwoods of the West Coast. Historic photos, many hand tinted, capture the early woods, woodsmen, and logging machines. • 11" x 8 1/2" (279 x 215 mm) • 278 color, 63 b/w images • 144 pp. • 978-0-7643-2619-6 • PB • $19.95 / £18.99 / $28.95 CAD Redwood Classic Ralph W. Andrews. A memorial to the magnificent natural redwood Sequoia trees in California—which today number only a fraction of the groves of 125 years ago—through outstanding, some- times even haunting photographs by Ralph Andrews. • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279 mm) • 239 b/w photographs • 174 pp. • 978-0-88740-049-0 • PB • $14.99 / £13.99 / $19.99 CAD This Was Logging: Drama in the Northwest Timber Country Ralph W. Andrews. Visit the Pacif- ic Northwest’s “Big Woods” with the superb work of timber photographer Darius Kinsey. Comprising more than 200 views, the author dramatically recalls lum- bering’s great days. Then the story continues into the “highball” days, the high production period with the steel tower skidders and miles of steel rigging. • 81/2" x 11" (215 x 279 mm) • 199 b/w photos • 157 pp. • 978- 0-88740-035-3 • PB • $14.99 / £13.99 / $19.99 CAD This Was Sawmilling Ralph W. Andrews. The true story of the triumphant growth and promise of the sawmill industry is shown with superb photography and told with exciting text. Anecdotes of the men who transformed logs into the building materials of a nation is augmented with thorough research, bringing to life the industry in the early 1900s. • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279mm) • 240 photos • 176 pp. • 978-0-88740-594-5 • PB • $15.95 / £14.99 / $22.95 CAD Timber: Loggers Challenge the Great Northwest Forests Ralph W. Andrews. Photos transport the reader into the former world of logging. The greatest stand of Douglas fir timber in existence lured Poles, Finns, Swedes, and Norskies out of the Midwest to help build West Coast cities. • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279 mm) • 171 b/wphotos • 182 pp. • 978-0-88740-036-0 • PB • $14.99 / £13.99 / $19.99 CAD Mine to Mill: History of the Great Lakes Iron Trade Phillip J. Stager. The history of the iron ore trade on theGreat Lakes, from1900–1980, is perhaps best related in visual form. Historians and enthusiasts alike can now learn about this important part of our country’s industrial heritage through the medium of the picture postcard. • 11" x 8 1/2" (279 x 215 mm) • 321 color photos • 128 pp. • 978-0-7643-4767-2 • HC • $29.99 / £27.99 / $42.99 CAD Mine to Mill: History of the Great Lakes Iron Trade: From Sault Ste Marie to the Lower Lake Ports Phillip J. Stager. Book one ended at the international locks at Sault Ste. Ma- rie; this picks up at the Soo and proceeds to the Lower Lake ports on Lakes Erie and Michigan. Explore the wide variety of shore-based machin- ery. • 11" x 8 1/2" (279 x 215 mm) • 323 color photos • 128 pp. • 978-0-7643-4901-0 • HC • $29.99 / £27.99 / $42.99 CAD This Was Mining in theWest DavidW. Pearson. The real lives of the brave ’49ers of the California Gold Rush are exposed and followed through the expansion of mining to other states and to silver and copper. Significant mines in eleven western states are discussed, including their dates of operation and production records. Mining stock certificates, currency, and newspapers from the day are also shown, along with antique mining tools. • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279 mm) • 225 photos • 166 pp. • 978-0- 88740-933-2 • PB • $24.95 / £22.99 / $34.95 CAD Cemetery Gates: Death andMourning Through the Ages Corvis Nocturnum. A study of death and mourning around the globe. Examine death, its significance in religious and ethnic views, cultural myths, and its use in art and liter- ature throughout the ages. Find out how different religions and ethnic groups understand death, the mourning that accompanies it, and the implications that people have given it • 7" x 10" (177 x 254 mm) • 150 color images • 144 pp. • 978-0-7643-3787-1 • PB • $24.99 / £22.99 / $35.99 CAD ZOMBIES FARMING LOGGING UNDERTAKING NEW COVER! 142 | ZOMBIES • FARMING • LOGGING • UNDERTAKING