BAMBOO

NY: Weatherhill. Very Good in Good+ dust jacket. 1981. 1st Edition,8p; Eighth Printing. HARDCOVER. 9x11"oversized. VERY GOOD CONDITION IN GOOD+ CLIPT(NO PR ICE) DUST JACKET..DJ HAS 2" CLOSED TEAR TO BACK PANEL ; GOLD TITLES ON GREEN CLOTH HARD COVERS..Bright BAMBOO PHOTO DECORATED endpapers..DJ SHOWS FENCE MADE WITH CRISS CROSSED BANBOO TIED WITH JUTE ROPE. a few misc. articles on Bamboo are laid in loosly.; GLOSSY COLOR & BW PHOTOS; 332+pg heavy pages; extraordinary plant; how to use it in craft and construction projects, including floors, fences, equipment; Bamboo is brilliantly and elegantly explored in this book that combines an authoritative text, dealing with the cultural and aesthetic as well as the technical aspects of bamboo, with 162 pages of stunning photographs, including 32 in full color. In the West, bamboo is most often thought of as a rare, exotic plant, ornamental in nature. In the East, however, the rustling bamboo grove is a familiar sight and the uses the plant is put to are so countless that life there would be unthinkable without it. .