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.
Antiques & Collectibles
The Encyclopedia of Furniture: Third Edition - Completely Revised
Potter Style, December 1965. Hardcover. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. A completely revised edition, covering every period and development to the present, the designers and makers, the woods and other materials, the architecture and decoration. 2,000 photographs. Glossary. Bibliography. Index.
Complete Guide To Stamps & Collecting
Hermes House, February 2018. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback).
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.....
Anchor Hocking's Fire-King & More: Identification & Value Guide including Early American Prescut and Wexford
Collector Books, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. 223 pages. Illustrations in color. First edition (first printing). A very good copy in illustrated paper over board covers. No dust jacket as issued. Upper corners bumped. Due to the growing popularity of Fire-King glassware, Gene Florence has compiled the essential collector's reference. Loaded.....
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.
The Ultimate Guide To Collectible Lego Sets
Krause Publications, November 2015. Trade Paperback. Brick by Brick Brilliance LEGO bricks are the building blocks of childhood. Yet they are far from child's play. LEGO sets are fast becoming a hot commodity with collectors worldwide for fun and profit. Abundantly visual, informative and detailed, The Ultimate Guide to Collectible.....
Japanese Dolls (Tourist Library Volume 17)
Japan Travel Bureau, 1955. Hardcover. 190 pages. Some illustrations in color. Second edition. A very good copy in a very good, price-clipped dust jacket. Former seller's sticker on front paste down.
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.
The Antique Bottle Collector
Grace Kendrick. Printed by Edwards Brothers, Inc., 1968. Trade Paperback. Ninth printing. Very good copy in illustrated wrappers (paperback).
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.....
Watchmakers' and jewelers' practical receipt book. A workshop companion: Comprising full and practical formulae and directions for solders and soldering, cleaning, pickeling, polishing, ... and general finishing of metals as applied to the watch and jewelry trade, together with all the important alloys used by the trade and many miscellaneous receipts. Compiled from private formulae.
G. K. Hazlitt, 1892. First Edition. Hardcover. 128 pages of formulas for jewelers. First edition. Very good hardcover with small areas of loss at the top and bottom of the spine.
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.
Important English Furniture and Decorations the Collection of Jerome C. Neuhoff Including Chinese Works of Art, Porcelain, Silver, Paintings and English Furniture, Decorations and Carpets
Sotheby's, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. 251 items offered for sale. Illustrations in color and B/W/ First edition (first printing). Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Silk page ribbon present.
Corpus Nummorum Saeculorum IX-XI qui in Suecia Reperti Sunt. Catalogue of Coins from the Viking Age Found in Sweden. 16. Dalarna. 1. Falun-Rattvik
Historie Och Antikvitets Akademien, 1979. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 98 pages plus 7 plates with B/W photographs of the coins. First edition (first printing). Very good in illustrated wrappers (paperback).
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.....
Collecting and Restoring Scientific Instruments
Arco Publishing Company, Inc., 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. 2778 pages. Illustrations in B/W. First edition (first printing). Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Carrying British Mails Overseas
George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. 327 pages. B/W illustrations. First edition (first printing). Near fine copy in blue cloth with bright silver lettering on spine. In a very good illustrated dust jacket with mild edge and corner wear. Spine slightly darkened.