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Book Nerd (Gift Book for Readers) - Hardcover

$12.43

by Holly Maguire (Author)Book nerds rule! And what better gift than a book that celebrates bookishness? You know you're a Book Nerd when...--You have a minimum of 5 books on your night table.--You never once thought the movie was better.--Your favorite mug says "I'd rather be reading."--You use words like librocubicularist in casual conversation (though no conversation about books is ever "casual"). --You wear a T-shirt that says--what else?--"Too many books, too little time."Charming, affe...

The Oxford Handbook of Greek and Roman Coinage - Paperback

$76.00

by William E. Metcalf (Author)A large gap exists in the literature of ancient numismatics between general works intended for collectors and highly specialized studies addressed to numismatists. Indeed, there is hardly anything produced by knowledgeable numismatists that is easily accessible to the academic community at large or the interested lay reader. The Oxford Handbook of Greek and Roman Coinage will fill this gap by providing a systematic overview of the major coinages of the classical ...

Before Writing, Vol. II: A Catalog of Near Eastern Tokens - Paperback

$92.00

by Denise Schmandt-Besserat (Author)Before Writing gives a new perspective on the evolution of communication. It points out that when writing began in Mesopotamia it was not, as previously thought, a sudden and spontaneous invention. Instead, it was the outgrowth of many thousands of years' worth of experience at manipulating symbols. In Volume I: From Counting to Cuneiform, Denise Schmandt-Besserat describes how in about 8000 B.C., coinciding with the rise of agriculture, a system of counter...

Dictionary of American Antiquarian Bookdealers - Hardcover

$112.00

by Donald C. Dickinson (Author)The first published reference source to bring together biographical information on American antiquarian bookdealers, this book provides librarians, dealers, and collectors with useful information on those dealers who were prominent in securing and distributing used and rare books, manuscripts, maps, autographs, documents, and ephemera. The book covers 205 notable dealers who died before August 1, 1997. Prominent dealers are identified as those who carried qualit...

A Practical Guide to Costume Mounting - Paperback

$200.00

by Lara Flecker (Author)The effective preparation of garments for display is essential for exhibitions of contemporary and historical dress. Costumes not only need to be visually appealing but also fully supported and historically accurate. This book provides a comprehensive guide to mounting costumes from the eighteenth century to the present day. It includes methods for adapting and shaping figures to create historical silhouettes, constructing underpinnings and making replicas and toiles u...

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by Shayne Rivers (Author), Nick Umney (Author)This book is a comprehensive resource covering the principles and practice of the conservation and restoration of furniture. A review of the historical development of furniture introduces a wide range of structural types and materials that may be encountered, including wood, ivory, turtleshell, horn and metals, as well as decorative surfaces such as paint, japanning, lacquer and gilding. The nature and behaviour of these materials is explained and...

Old-Fashioned Halloween Cards: 24 Cards - Paperback

$8.59

by Gabriella Oldham (Editor)Headless horsemen, ugly witches, devils, and demons -- these frightful Halloween symbols have captured the imagination of young and old alike for generations. In the early decades of this century, though, not all images associated with this night of goblins and ghouls displayed sinister qualities -- as revealed in these delightfully lighthearted cards issued between 1900 and 1930.Bringing a fairy-tale quality to the holiday, these vintage cards (many with charming ...

Round The Corner In Gay Street (1908) - Paperback

$38.34

by Grace S. Richmond (Author)This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work. Number of Pages: 356 Dimensions: 0.79 x 9 x 6 I...

Wampum: A Paper Presented To The Numismatic And Antiquarian Society Of Philadelphia (1878) - Paperback

$20.34

by Ashbel Woodward (Author)This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work. Number of Pages: 64 Dimensions: 0.15 x 9 x 6 IN P...

Tidioute: A Town With an Edge - Hardcover

$22.99

by David L. Anthony (Author)Nestled in a remote area of northwestern Pennsylvania, the small town of Tidioute became home to five cutlery manufacturers starting in the late-1800s. Although no longer in existence, these businesses produced some of the finest collectible knives and razors ever. Tidioute: A Town With an Edge relates the history and development of this unique stronghold of cutlery companies and how they competed with one another in the area known as the "Magic Circle" of cutlery ...

The Pinball Price Guide, Ninth Edition - Paperback

$23.94

by Pinballeric (Author)Continuing the tradition of pinball collecting, The Pinball Price Guide, Ninth Edition by Pinballeric(TM) is the ideal reference for anyone-collector, buyer, or seller-trying to determine the current value and fair price of a pinball machine. The Price Guide, which covers the price values of over 2000 collectible games produced for the U.S. market from 1931-2012, is unique in that it breaks down pricing into three classes (1-Best, 2-Good, 3-OK), determined by the condit...

Materials for Conservation: Organic Consolidants, Adhesives and Coatings - Paperback

$184.00

by C. V. Horie (Author)Materials in Conservation is the definitive introduction to the properties of materials used in conservation. The continual struggle of conservators to ameliorate the deterioration of objects has led to increasing use of synthetic polymers. These materials are part of the sophisticated technology that has been developed to augment and often replace traditional materials and methods. Conservators therefore have a wider range of techniques available. However, they must be...

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by Mike Mueller (Author)The 1960s and early 1970s were the age of raw American automotive power. Whether it was a classic Hemi 'Cuda, Pontiac GTO, Charger, or Boss Mustang, big engines were king at local drag strips and cruises. Muscle Cars explores this era and the current models with a broad survey of classic muscle and today's new machines. Each chapter is organized around a theme (milestones, factory racers, etc), each model getting a multi-page spread of full-color photography, performan...

$67.18

by Kesaharu Imai (Author)In this virtual catalog of Rolex wristwatches, collectors and buyers will find 3,621 wristwatches in over 14 different model lines: Oyster, Bubbleback, including Chronograph, Submariner, Explorer, and more. Each watch is shown in full color, with the most important technical details as well as reference numbers, and year of manufacture provided. This variety of information is of inestimable worth for the wristwatch collector and buyer. In one place, for example, they ...

Bevington & Sons, Victorian Organ Builders: The life and times of four generations of the Bevington family - Paperback

$70.56

by Tony Bevington (Author), Jill Bevington (Author), Romana Bevington (Author)Now a fully revised and expanded second edition, Bevington & Sons, Victorian Organ Builders, tells the story of four generations of the Bevington family who presided over Bevington & Sons, the renowned organ builders of Soho, London, who built and erected more than 2,000 pipe organs between 1794 and 1950, and sold them all over the world.Generously illustrated, it includes many facts and figures relating to ...

The Hummingbird Cabinet: A Rare and Curious History of Romantic Collectors - Hardcover

$65.52

by Judith Pascoe (Author)"This book is... a romantic history of romantic collecting. It takes seriously, and by necessity shares, the tendency of romantic histories to dwell upon their own fragmentariness, on the impossibility of capturing an intact history.... It traces the particular ways in which objects stepped into the lives of romantic collectors, and also the ways in which the objects moved on."--from the IntroductionIn the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the activity o...

Mint Condition: How Baseball Cards Became an American Obsession - Paperback

$16.32

by Dave Jamieson (Author)When award-winning journalist Dave Jamieson rediscovered his childhood baseball card collection he figured that now was the time to cash in on his "investments." But when he tried the card shops, they were nearly all gone, closed forever. eBay was no help, either. Baseball cards were selling for next to nothing. What had happened? In Mint Condition, the first comprehensive history of this American icon, Jamieson finds the answers and much more. In the years after the ...

American Windmills: An Album of Historic Photographs - Paperback

$28.75

by T. Lindsay Baker (Author), John Carter (Introduction by)From the earliest days of European settlement, Americans have cherished the sight of a windmill--an instantly recognizable feature of the American landscape. Boasting nearly two hundred striking images, this book is the first devoted to photographs illustrating historic wind machines throughout North America.T. Lindsay Baker, an expert historian on windmills, has written about wind-power history for twenty-five years. His album contai...

The Complete Cut and Engraved Glass of Corning - Paperback

$28.75

by Estelle Sinclaire (Author), Jane Shadel Spillman (Author)This history of the Corning glass industry is a rich storehouse of information for anyone trying to identify pieces of cut or engraved glass. It combines a study of craftsmen and technique in Corning from 1868 to the present with hitherto unpublished catalogue material from the Corning archives.Back JacketInvaluable for the collector, curator, and dealer alike, The Complete Cut & Engraved Glass of Corning bring to the field of gl...

The Complete Cut and Engraved Glass of Corning - Hardcover

$120.00

by Estelle Sinclaire (Author), Jane Shadel Spillman (Author)This history of the Corning glass industry is a rich storehouse of information for anyone trying to identify pieces of cut or engraved glass. It combines a study of craftsmen and technique in Corning from 1868 to the present with hitherto unpublished catalogue material from the Corning archives.Back JacketThe Complete Cut & Engraved Glass of Corning brings to the field of glass collecting a rich storehouse of detailed information...

Neat Pieces: The Plain-Style Furniture of Nineteenth-Century Georgia - Paperback

$58.98

by Atlanta History Center (Author), Deanne Levison (Foreword by)Neat Pieces is a detailed, extensively illustrated survey of the major forms and makers of the "plain style" of furniture made and used by Georgians in the 1800s. Simply designed, solidly constructed of local woods, and usually unadorned, such pieces were used daily by their owners for storage, sleeping, eating, and more. Today, this furniture is read by historians, folklorists, and other experts for clues into a past way of life...

Hopi Kachina Dolls with a Key to Their Identification - Paperback

$19.15

by Harold S. Colton (Author)A Hopi Indian will tell you that a kachina is a supernatural being who is impersonated by a man wearing a mask. Small wooden dolls carved in the likenesses of the various kachinas are used to help teach Hopi children the tribal religion and traditions. Each child receives a doll made especially for him by his male relatives. He treasures the doll and studies it so that he can learn to recognize and respect the host of spirit kachinas that people the Hopi world.Kach...

American Military Shoulder Arms, Volume III: Flintlock Alterations and Muzzleloading Percussion Shoulder Arms, 1840-1865 - Paperback

$152.00

by George D. Moller (Author)This third volume in Moller's authoritative reference work describes muzzleloading percussion shoulder arms procured by the U.S. government for issue to federal and state armed forces in the period that includes the Civil War. These twenty-five years were an exciting time in the history of shoulder arms. During the 1840s, only a handful of American manufacturers were capable of producing significant quantities of arms having fully interchangeable components. By the...

Gunsmoke and Saddle Leather: Firearms in the Nineteenth-Century American West - Hardcover

$38.35

by Charles G. Worman (Author)The gun, like the axe and the plow, was an essential tool in the exploration and settlement of the trans-Mississippi West. It provided food for the cooking pot as well as protection against two- or four-legged marauders. As the century progressed, firearms also provided various forms of recreation for both men and women, primarily target and competition shooting.Of course the employment of the gun, whether for good or evil, depended upon the user. The men and wome...

Krampus: The Devil of Christmas - Hardcover

$23.95

by Monte Beauchamp (Author)"...an arresting terror!" -- Rick Kogan; Chicago Tribune Magazine With an ADDITIONAL 32 pages, superior printing, and a secure HARDCOVER binding, KRAMPUS: The Devil of Christmas picks up where the softcover edition of The Devil in Design leaves off. In the early Christmas traditions of Europe, the Krampus was St. Nicholas' dark servant-a hairy, horned, supernatural beast whose pointed ears and long slithering tongue gave misbehavers the creeps! Whereas St. Nicholas ...

Girl Scout Collector's Guide: A History of Uniforms, Insignia, Publications, and Memorabilia (Second Edition) - Hardcover

$62.40

by Mary Degenhardt (Author), Judith Kirsch (Author)In more than nine decades of Girl Scouting, a vast popular and material culture has given rise to a wealth of Girl Scout history collections. More than an identification guide to uniforms, insignia, and other Girl Scout objects, this work also documents when changes occurred and why new items were introduced. Placing these objects in context, this essential guide provides a discerning look at the history and development of the Girl Scout Move...

The Development of Glass Bottle Making Machines - Paperback

$114.00

by John Trevor Gledhill (Author)Our journey takes us from the days of early hand making through to the modern day IS machine, a journey that takes us from the late 17th century through to the early 21st century. There are throughout this discourse many developments that failed to come into fruition, these are explored so that the reader can see the differences in approach that people made to the development of the machines. From such diversity there will be machines that have been missed, som...

Quilts: California Bound, California Made, 1840-1940 - Paperback

$57.60

by Sandi Fox (Author)The richly diverse legacy of California's quilts is beautifully chronicled in words and images in this extraordinary collection spanning a century of quiltmaking. Here is the story of California's quilts, from those California bound--carried on the backs of mules and horses, in covered wagons, by ship or by train--to those California made, created on the farms and in villages and cities across the state. Whether to remember friends and family back home, mourn loved ones l...

Challenging Repairs to Interesting Clocks - Paperback

$31.63

by Edwin U. Sowers (Author)For two decades Edwin Sowers wrote articles for horological publications, sharing the details of the repair work he completed. This book brings together more than thirty of his most challenging and interesting jobs through the articles that he wrote for three horological publications. Through step-by-step instructions and detailed photographs and illustrations, Sowers walks the reader through the process of restoring common and uncommon ailments to a variety of time...

Steffie: Out of the Box: Delving into a collector's obsession - Paperback

$24.00

by Melissa Hoffman (Editor), Sandra Bernal (Photographer), Rodrigo Bocca (Photographer)Fashion doll fan and Steffie collector Alison Rasmussen shares her eclectic collection with even more untraditional color photographs in this sequel to the first reference book. While not a professional photographer, the author includes many candid photos of various dolls created between 1971 and 2011, as well as a reference list of Steffie-faced dolls manufactured by Mattel and its licensed affiliates.Auth...

Digital Restoration Secrets: Restore Antiques, Arcade Games,& Pinball - Paperback

$15.31

by Michael Ford (Author)Learn how to scan, touch-up, and print your own restoration artwork. Do you have an arcade game with a bad marquee, a pinball game with a damaged back glass, a slot machine with a faded instruction sticker, an otherwise beautiful mechanical gun game with a torn background? You need a new piece but no one makes it so what do you do? That's simple, you digitally restore it and make a perfect new copy. Whether you only want to fi x your one game at home or go into busines...

The Art of Beautiful Tables: A Treasury of Inspiration and Ideas for Anyone Who Loves Gracious Entertaining - Hardcover

$31.63

by Melissa Lester (Editor)In The Art of Beautiful Tables, table settings that span the spectrum from casual to formal affairs are showcased. Crystal goblets catching the glimmer of candlelight, polished-to-perfection sterling silver placed precisely beside delicately patterned English bone china, a snow-white linen cloth edged in the finest Bruges lace--together these elements form the foundation for an elegant table setting. Add monogrammed napkins, place cards penned in graceful calligraph...