A Guide Book of United States Coins 'Redbook' 2024 Hardcover
Whitman Publishing, LLC, April 2023. Hardcover. A new copy.
Antiques & Collectibles
Collector's Encyclopedia of Occupied Japan Collectibles
Collector Books, 1993. Trade Paperback. 127 pages. Illustrated in color. A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback). Signed by the author. During the occupation after World War II, most items imported from Japan were marked "Made in Occupied Japan." It is these now highly-collectible items which Gene Florence covers in.....
The Collector's Encyclopedia of Occupied Japan Collectibles
Collector Books, 1996. Trade Paperback. 106 pages. Illustrated in color. A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback). Signed by the author. During the occupation after World War II, most items imported from Japan were marked Made in Occupied Japan. It is these now highly-collectible items which Gene Florence covers in.....
English Delft Pottery
Herbert Jenkins Limited, 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. 127 pages. Illustrated with 52 black-and-white photographs of delftware. A de luxe edition of 100 signed and numbered copies. First edition (first printing). A very good copy with some soiling to spine and boards, a bit of foxing to pageblock, and some offsetting.....
English delftware
Faber and Faber, 1972. Hardcover. 103 pages. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs of Delftware. The Faber monographs on pottery and porcelain Second enlarged and revised edition. A very good copy in a very good price clipped dust jacket with toning to spine and edges.
Sotheby's 217th Season: October 1960 - July 1961
Sotheby's, 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. 213 pages. Illustrated in both black-and-white photographs of items auctioned off from October 1960 to July 1961. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in a very good dust jacket.
International Arts and Crafts
V&A Publications, London, England, January 2005. Trade Paperback. A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback).
Zap! Ray Gun Classics
Chronicle Books, October 1991. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). Photographs depict classic toy ray guns ranging from the Buck Rogers Disintegrator Pistol to Korean-made items of the 1980s.
The Legend of the Lighter
Abbeville Press, June 1995. Hardcover. Drawing from the collection of the Dutch Cigarette Lighter Museum, this book traces the history of the cigarette lighter from its predecessor, the tinderbox, to the fashionable and decorated lighters of the 20th-century. It also provides an account of developments in design and technology.
American Arts & Crafts: Virtue in Design
Bulfinch Press, April 1992. Trade Paperback. Influenced by developments in Europe, American proponents in the late 19th and early 20th centuries promoted the minor arts as fine art hand-wrought by individual craftsmen, extolling the virtue of everyday objects and a return to simple materials and workmanship. This book looks at.....
McCoy Pottery: Reference & Value Guide (McCoy Pottery: Collector's Reference & Value Guide)
Collector Books, 1998. Hardcover. 320 pages. Illustrations in color. Later printing. Near fine copy in illustrated paper over board covers. No dust jacket as issued. McCoy is probably the best known of all American potteries due to the wide variety of pieces they produced since 1910. This new reference work.....
McCoy Pottery: Collector's Reference & Value Guide Featuring the Top 100 Findables: Volume II
Collector Books, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. 304 pages. Illustrations in color. First edition (first printing). Near fine copy in illustrated paper over board covers. No dust jacket as issued.
Collector's Encyclopedia of Weller Pottery
Collector Books, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. 375 pages. Illustrations in color and B/W/ First edition (first printing). A very good copy in color illustrated covers. No dust jacket as issued. The Weller Pottery Company was founded in 1882 in Zanesville, Ohio, and it was one of the largest potteries in.....
Versteigerungs-Katalog No. 63: Sammlung von Gold- und Silbermunzen und Medaillen mit vieten Seltenheiten auf allen Gebieten. 13 Tafeln Abbildungen
Sally Rosenberg, 1928. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 68 pages with 13 pages of plates in B/W. 990 items offered for sale. First edition (first printing). Very good in illustrated wrappers (paperback). Tanning and edge wear to covers.
Watch and Clock Encyclopedia
Bonanza Books, 1977. Hardcover. 207 pages with 26 page supplement. B/W illustrations. Later printing. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. Some foxing to book page edges and covers. Mild edge and corner wear to dust jacket.
Bryan Money
Token and Medal Society, Inc., 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. 112 pages. 'Bryan Money' is about the tokens and medals issued during the 1896 and 1900 presidential campaigns, and center around the controversy of Bryan's platform which had advocated the 'free coinage of silver at a 16 to 1 ratio.' First.....
Porcelaine de la Compagnie des Indes
Office du Livre, (1962). Hardcover. 225 pages. 10-1/4 by 11-1/2 inches. Illustrated in black-and-white and color. Text is in the French language. Very good in a very good dust jacket.
The Collection of Lydia Winston Malbin
Sotheby's, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. 8-1/2 by 11 inches. Catalog for an auction held May 16, 1990. Lots 1 to 93. Illustrated mostly in color. Malbin was a European art collector. First edition (first printing). Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Light bumps to corners, minor edge wear.....
The Breitbart Collection of Ancient Glass, Egyptian, Western Asiatic and Classical Antiquities, June 20, 1990
Sotheby's, 1990. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Catalog of 145 items, illustrated about half in color. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback). Minor edge wear.
Big Little Books: A Collector's Reference & Value Guide
Collector Books, 1996. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 175 pages. Hundreds of color illustrations. First edition (first printing). Very good in color illustrated wrappers (paperback). Larry Jacobs has one of the largest collections of Big Little Books in the world. His easy-to-use book has over 800 items listed and photographed in.....
The Piano Makers
Hutchinson of London, 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. 192 pages. B/W illustrations. Signed by the author on title page. First edition (first printing). A very good copy in orange cloth covers with silver lettering on spine. Cover with spotting on front cover edge. Inscribed to former owner, not be author, on.....
Cornish Clocks and Clockmakers
David & Charles, 1980. Hardcover. 96 pages. B/W illustrations. Third edition, 1980. Near fine copy in blue cloth covers with bright gilt lettering on spine. In price-clipped dust jacket with slight edge wear.
The Bottle Trail
May Jones. Printed by Chalfant Press, 1961. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Unpaginated, 36 pages. Illustrated with B/W drawings. Much on California bottles; California Packing Company; J. A. Folger. Inscribed by the author: 'Maybe our old bottles are empty - but much better and more healthful that way - (maybe). Carry.....
Making History: Antiquaries in Britain, 1707-2007
Royal Academy of Arts, 2007. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 267 pages. Published on the occasion of the exhibition 'Making History: Antiquaries in Britain, 1707-2007.' 179 individual treasures of the Society illustrated and discussed. Lavishly illustrated with many full-page color plates. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in illustrated.....
The Antique Tool Collector's Guide to Value
Windmill Pub Co, July 1985. Trade Paperback.