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The company's growing exponentially as an international tobacco and pipe‐making under his administration. In recognition of its export achievements, he won the Queen's Award to Industry. | The company's growing exponentially as an international tobacco and pipe‐making under his administration. In recognition of its export achievements, he won the Queen's Award to Industry. | ||
<q>Mr. Dunhill maintained that tobacco was as rich and re warding as wine or food, and he published several books on the subject. They included “The Gentle Art of Smoking” (1954) and “The Pipe Book,” are vised survey of the pipes of the world, first published by his father in 1926.</q> The New York Time - July 9, 1971, Page 34. | |||
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<center>'''The Pipe Book - Foreword'''</center> | |||
<blockquote><q>For over forty years The Pipe Book seems to have appealed to both pipe smokers and the general reader interested in smoking as an aspect of social history. As a study of the pipe from earliest times, I believe it still has no rival.<br> | |||
I am therefore glad to introduce a revised edition with new illustrations based mainly on pipes in the Dunhill collection. Apart from minor changes the text is as my father wrote it in 1924.</q> , Alfred H. Dunhill, 1969.</blockquote> | |||
The book “The Gentle Art of Smoking” looks at the history of Tobacco (growing, preparation, etc) and moves on to Pipes and Cigars. | The book “The Gentle Art of Smoking” looks at the history of Tobacco (growing, preparation, etc) and moves on to Pipes and Cigars. | ||
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