The Hirayama Fireworks Company Illustrated Catalogue barry mcgee A superb restored reproduction of

A superb restored reproduction of the original catalogue and a great work of graphic illustration

and wry humour

This twentieth anniversary edition features a postscript in which Frankfurt emphasizes that “indifference to the truth is extremely dangerous

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The Hirayama Fireworks Company Illustrated Catalogue barry mcgee A superb restored reproduction ofThe Japanese word for fireworks is 'Hanabi', which translates as 'fire flowers', a far more suitable name, and here is a book full of them! This is a high quality reproduction of the 1883 Hirayama Fireworks Company Illustrated Catalogue. In 1877, the entrepreneurial pryo technician Jinta Hirayama founded The Hirayama Fireworks Company in Yokohama, Japan. Japanese fireworks at the time mostly emitted only subdued orange hues, but the innovative