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48 | RECENTLY RELEASED ISBN: 978-0-7643-6929-2 Size: 8" x 10" (203 x 254 mm) Pages: 240 Price: $40.00 / £36.99 / 57.00 CAD Illustrations: 330+ color and black-and-white photos and diagrams Binding: hardcover BISAC: ANTIQUES & COLLECTIBLES / Firearms & Weap- ons Folding Knives The Complete Guide to Modern Pocketknives By Thomas Laible A comprehensive guide to collecting, maintaining, appreciating, and using contemporary folding pocketknives safely, carefully, and legally. The traditional pocketknife has changed immensely over the last few decades. New technologies and production methods have led to the development of new designs and shapes. This book gives a complete overview of modern pocketknives—both practical and tactical versions—and answers many questions, including • How are modern pocketknives constructed? • How do the different locks work? • When makes a blade cut well—and what doesn’t? • What are the advantages and disadvantages of different handle materials? • How do different opening mechanisms work? • What are the advantages and disadvantages of various clips? There is a chapter devoted to safely using your folding knives and a special section on the legal ramifications of carrying and using pocketknives in different areas of the world. For every current or aspiring knife collector—or anyone with an appreciation of the artistry of modern folding knives—this book contains everything you’ll ever want to know. Thomas Laible is a historian and the editor of Weapons: Internal Market . He has been working for more than two decades with swords, daggers, and knives and is the author of numerous books and numerous articles. He lives in Germany. ISBN 978-0-7643-6929-2 ISBN: 978-0-7643-6935-3 Size: 8 1/2" x 11" (216 x 279 mm) Pages: 176 Price: $34.99 / £31.99 / 46.99 CAD Illustrations: 583 color images Binding: hardcover BISAC: ANTIQUES & COLLECTIBLES / Kitchenware Collectible Cast Iron Bundt Pans and Gugelhupf Cake Forms By John Briggs The first and only book for collectors of cast-iron bundt pans. Includes pans from both the US and Germany. Many of the cast-iron foundries in Germany were converted to support the German military during WWI and WWII. Unfortunately for these foundries, this made them prime military targets. The result was many of the foundries were destroyed, along with all their records, catalogs, patterns, and molds. Little information was left behind for collectors to research and catalog the foundry marks on many of the collectible pans cast in Germany. Known manufacturers covered include the following: Berkley Machine Works and Foundry Co., Buzuluk a.s., Cousances–Le Creuset, Eisenwerk Lauchhammer, EisenwerkMartinlamitz GmbH, Frank’sche Eisenwerk GmbH, Gottbill ser Erben Eisenwerk, GriswoldManufacturing Co., Frank WHay and Sons, J. C. Roberts, John Wright Company, and Lodge Manufacturing Co. The author spent four years researching online and in person in Germany, France, and the Czech Republic the origin of all of these pans and includes select images of each pan, dimensions, key notable characteristics, and baking volumes for more than 100 examples. John Briggs studied at Le Cordon Bleu and publishes the Cast Iron Chef food blog on Facebook. He is married with five daughters and lives in Spain, where he is a volunteer chef at José Andrés’s World Central Kitchen in Madrid. ISBN 978-0-7643-6935-3