Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 13:30:38 -0400 (EDT) From: Larry Moss To: Balloon Sculpting Mailing List Subject: Marvin Hardy's Books After my note last night about "Out of the Part Time Frying Pan ...", Marvin sent me a note with more information about books. He said he hadn't posted more about them since he thought it seemed like too commercial a use of the list. In many cases I'd agree with that, but there have been a lot of questions about them, so I'll include some of Marvin's mail here for those that are interested. This is not an endorsement of the works. I have not seen most of his books. I am just offering the information I have on them. I will also say that I have been very happy with the books I have seen from Marvin and I expect the same value out of the others. Kristie already posted about the Balloon Magic books available from Pioneer, but some of Marvin's comments are interesting. Marvin Hardy said: > The Balloon Magic Advanced 260Q Figure Book is to be officially released > by Qualatex on September 15th. It is primarily multiple balloon figures > and is the first publication except for Balloon Magic - the Magazine > with any of the newer figures I have done. All of the previous books > and videos were pre-1986. > > There will be a series of books released by Qualatex as "The > Balloon Magic Library", all spiral bound and with the same size and > format.. The first was the "Balloon Magic 321Q Figure Book", the second, > the "Balloon Magic 260Q Figure Book" which is a re-publication of the > Balloon Magic Hardbound book, the third, the "Balloon Magic Advanced 260Q > Figure Book", with others to follow. > > Independent of Qualatex I have a book called "Balloon Oriented > Magic", a three volume set called Recreational Mathematics, one called "Out > of the Part Time Frying Pan into the Full Time Fire", three books of > poetry, and a variety of others. I have my catalog on the WWW. It lists > all of the products that I carry. My Web Site is at > http://www.balloonmagic.com