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Path: bloom-beacon.mit.edu!senator-bedfellow.mit.edu!faqserv
From: bartlone@zeke.med.ge.com (Michel Bartolone)
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This is part 3 of 5 of the rec.arts.bonsai/alt bonsai FAQ.
This posting contains:
Section 9 -- Reading material (Books and Magazines)
Books
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BONSAI
The Complete Guide to Art & Technique
by Paul Lesniewicz
published by Blandford Press
Indoor Bonsai
by Paul Lesniewicz
published by Blandford Press
The Creative Art of Bonsai
by Isabelle & Remy Samson
Ward Lock Ltd ISBN 0 7063 7024 4
_BONSAI with American Trees_
by Masakuni Kawasumi
published by Kodansha International Ltd
ISBN 0-87011-246-5
"Bonsai Techniques" by John Yoshio Naka
Published for the Bonsai Institute of California.
The Complete Book of Bonsai
by Harry Tomlinson
Abbeville Press, 1991 224p
$30.00
(Hardbound. ISBN:1-55859-118-4)
The Complete BONSAI Handbook
By Darlene Dunton
Stein and Day Publishers
ISBN 0-8128-6008-X
Four Seasons of Bonsai
by Kyuzo Murata
The Beginner's Guide to American Bonsai
By Jerald P. Stowell
ISBN 0-87011-326-7
The Masters' Book of Bonsai
Compiled by Directors of The Japan Bonsai Association
published by Kodansha International Ltd
ISBN 0-87011-453-0
Bonsai: Illustrated Guide to and Ancient Art
Ed: Patricia Hart Clifford
published by: Sunset Publishing Corporation
ISBN 0-376-03044-5
American Bonsai Society-Bonsai Clubs International Book Service
C/O Vernon Weeks Dept "B"
3740 Louisiana Ave. N.
New Hope MN 55427 USA
Tel: (612) 537-6984
ABS-BCI list...
Title (Author)
Prices ($US)
List Member Postage Title
========= ====== ===== ====================================
1. 24.95 20.00 2.00 The Art of Indoor Bonsai (Ainsworth)
David & Charles, 1989. (Hardback. ISBN:0-943955-11-4)
Trafalgar Square ( David & Charles ), 1992.
(Paperbound. ISBN:0-943955-58-0) 128 p. $19.95
Good pages on basic techniques and basic ideas for
growing indoors. 66 pages devoted to care and
feeding of 33 species which work well indoors.
2. 44.95 36.00 2.75 Bonsai (Koreshoff)
3. 45.00 36.00 2.50 Bonsai, The Art & Technique (Young)
4. 29.95 25.00 2.00 The Bonsai Book (Barton)
Trafalgar Square (David & Charles), 1990.
(Hardback. ISBN:0-85223-742-1)
5. 17.95 17.95 Paid Bonsai Book of Practical Facts (Meyer)
6. 24.95 20.00 2.00 Bonsai Design:
Deciduous & Conifer Trees (Adams)
Sterling Publishing Co., Inc., 1990
(Hardback. ISBN:0-7063-6836-3) 143 p.
7. 19.95 16.00 2.00 Bonsai Masterclass (Chan)
Sterling Publishing Co., Inc., 1993
(Paperbound. ISBN:0-8069-6763-3) $14.95
8. 25.00 25.00 Paid Bonsai Techniques I (Naka)
9. 35.00 35.00 Paid Bonsai Techniques II (Naka)
10. 27.95 22.50 2.25 Bonsai: The Complete Guide (Lesniewicz)
11. 14.00 12.00 2.00 Bonsai: Trees & Shrubs (Perry)
12. Brooklyn Botanical Gardens Handbooks:
a) 6.95 5.75 1.50 first, Bonsai for Indoors
Sewall Company, 1991.
(Paperbound. ISBN:0-945352-59-X)
b) 6.95 5.75 0.50 each Bonsai: Special Techniques
Sterling Publishing Co., Inc., 1992.
(Paperbound. ISBN:0-945352-02-6)
c) 5.95 4.75 additional Bonsai: Dwarf Potted Trees
d) 5.95 4.75 Japanese Gardens
13. 29.95 25.00 2.00 Chinese Bonsai (Lesniewicz)
14. 39.95 32.00 2.50 Chinese Penjing (Hu)
15. 100.00 75.00 Paid Classic Bonsai of Japan (Nippon
Bonsai Assoc.)
16. 29.95 25.00 2.00 The Complete Book of Bonsai (Tomlinson)
17. 17.95 14.50 2.00 The Creative Art of Bonsai (Samson)
18. 24.95 20.00 2.00 Four Seasons of Bonsai (Murata)
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1990.
(Hardback. ISBN:4-7700-1498-8)
19. 29.95 22.00 2.00 Hagamos Bonsai (Botero) [Spanish Text]
20. 8.95 7.25 1.50 Indoor Bonsai (Ainsworth)
21. 14.95 12.00 1.50 Indoor Bonsai (Lesniewicz)
22. 14.95 12.00 1.75 Indoor Bonsai: A Beginner's Guide (Pike)
23. 19.95 16.00 2.50 The Japanese Art of Miniature Trees
& Landscapes (Yoshimura & Halford)
24. 23.95 16.00 2.00 The Japanese Art of Stone Appreciation
(Covello & Yoshimura)
25. 40.00 32.00 2.50 Japanese Maples (Vertrees)
26. 39.95 32.00 2.50 Penjing: The Chinese Art of
Miniature Gardens (Hu)
27. 29.95 25.00 2.00 Popular Bonsai (Pike)
28. 8.95 7.25 1.50 Successful Bonsai Growing (Adams)
29. 29.95 29.95 Paid Outstanding American Bonsai (Clark)
30. 75.00 60.00 Paid The World of Bonsai (Lesniewicz)
31. 14.95 12.00 1.50 Bonsai: The Art of Training Dwarf
Potted Trees (Brook. Bot. Gard.) [Video]
International Bonsai
pub. by
The International Bonsai Arboretum
412 Pinnacle Road
Rochester, New York 14623
Phone (716) 334-2595
Plants and gardens, Brooklyn Bot. Gard. Record. -- Handbook
Vol. 9 No. 22 Dwarfed Potted Trees, The Bonsai of Japan
Vol. 22 No. 2 Bonsai: Special Techniques
Vol. 32 No. 2 Bonsai for Indoors
Brooklyn Botanical Gardens
1000 Washington Ave
Brooklyn, NY 11225
Art of Bonsai(Adams)
Sterling Publishing Co., Inc., 1992.
(Paperbound. ISBN:0-7063-7116-X)
$17.95
Very good book for explaining strategy of training certain trees.
Unfortunately ignores maples. Part 1: Profiles on 1) Beech and Hornbeam
2) Elm and Zelkova 3) mixed Juniper species & Cryptomeria (~20 pages each)
explaining conditions for growing and production cycle over the first
6 years of growing and training.
Part 2: 16 case histories of authors own plants illustrating techniques
and strategies.
Simon and Schuster's Guide to Bonsai (Giorgi)
Simon & Schuster Trade, 1991.
(Paperbound. ISBN:0-671-73488-1)
$14.00
Practical Bonsai (Lewis)
Trafalgar Square ( David & Charles ), 1993.
(Paperbound. ISBN:1-85223-661-2)
$8.95
Living Art of Bonsai (Liang)
Sterling Publishing Co., Inc., 1992.
(Hardback. ISBN:0-8069-8780-4)
$35.00
Bonsai Basics (Pessey)
Sterling Publishing Co., Inc., 1992.
(Paperbound. ISBN:0-8069-0327-9)
$9.95
Probably one of the better inexpensive basic books. A nice
section on how trees grow.
Indoor Bonsai (Pike)
Trafalgar Square ( David & Charles ), 1991.
(Paperbound. ISBN:1-85223-254-4)
$15.95
Beginning Bonsai (Student)
Tuttle, Charles and Company Inc, 1992.
(Paperbound. ISBN:0-8048-1729-4)
$9.95
Bonsai (Sunset)
Sunset Books.
(Paperbound. ISBN:0-376-03044-5)
$7.95
Masterpieces of Bonsai (Takayanagi)
Farrar, Straus & Giroux.
(Hardback. ISBN:0-87040-711-2)
$22.95
Bonsai : its art, science, history and philosophy.
Written and illustrated by Deborah R. Koreshoff
Oregon : Timber Press, 1984.
ISBN 0-917304-68-3
This has an excellent section on the history and philosophy
of bonsai, as well as descriptions of some techniques not
found in many of the other books.
Magazines
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Bonsai Today
Stone Lantern Publishing Co
P.O. Box 816
Sudbury MA 01776
Subscriptions are $42 a year. 6 issues a year.
English translation of a Japanese magazine. Very detailed!
"Bonsai" -- Journal of the American Bonsai Society
Quarterly, ca. 30 pages
Annual membership fee: individual $18, student $11
Information: ABS Executive Sec. Box 358, Keene NH 03431
"Bonsai" magazine
Bonsai Clubs International
Virginia Ellerman
Business Manager
2636 W. Mission Road #277
Tallahassee FL 32304-2556
USA
(6/year; US $20 of $25 membership goes to magazine; single copies $6)
"International Bonsai"
International Bonsai Arboretum
William N. Valavanis
Post Office Box 23894
Rochester NY 14692-3894
USA
(4/year; US $22; foreign $28; never read it; anyone?)
"Bonsai"
("Great Britain's Premiere Bonsai Magazine")
US Telephone: 800 842-5523
(4/year; US $23.95 introductory price; $7.60 sample; never read it)
End Section 9 -- Reading material
End of part 3 of 5 of the rec.arts.bonsai/alt.bonsai FAQ
Continued in Part 4