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By: Bagdade, Susan;Bagdade, Al;Bagdade, Allen D.
Price: $8.00
Publisher: Iola Wisconsin, Krause Publications: 1998
Edition: 3rd Edition
Seller ID: 006053
312 pp., numerous b&w photos. Glossary, index, bilbliography. A price guide and market overview for more than 200 categories of European pottery and porcelain, compiled for the U.S. market. View more info
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Iola, Wisconsin, Krause Publications: 1999
Seller ID: 009745
601 pp. Nearly new, spine uncreased. No marking. Exhaustive compendium of values for 15,000 signatures -- entertainers, presidents, athletes, generals, et al. Plus analysis and pointers on market trends. Size: 4to 11 in Tall View more info
By: Bedford, John
Price: $5.00
Publisher: NY, David McKay Co.: 1965
Edition: 1st American Edition
Seller ID: 007148
252 pp. Heavy chipping of dj. Spine flap has quarter-inch tear at top, some darkish soiling. Binding firm, text bright. Heavily illustrated with line drawings of furniture details. Handy pocket-sized furniture and china identification guide for treks to antique and junk shops. Entries are alphabetically arranged. View more info
Price: $7.00
Publisher: NY, Bonanza Books: 1957
Edition: Reprint.
Seller ID: 009961
246 pp., with b&w photos and line drawings. Some rubbing on edges and corner of orange cloth cover. Dust jacket moderately rubbed and tattered along creases. An encyclopedic alphabetized reference listing important cabinetmakers, and their locations, many of them from 17th and 18th centuries, Most entries have 50 to 200 words of biographical information. More important ones have one to two full pages of material. Sketches provide details of their characteristic styles. S... View more info
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Williamsburg Va., Colonial Williamsburg Foundation: 1977
Edition: First Edition Thus.
Seller ID: 010256
42 pp. Light bumping of corners, lightly used, no markings. Covers have blue marbled design, double-leafed and uncut. Title is a pasted decorative card. A facsimile reproduction of a selection of 6 pieces that Thomas Jefferson enjoyed at Monticello, his Virginia estate. Composers represented are Bach, Handel, J. Snow, Samuel Arnold, W. Wadiczha, and C.F. Abel. The anthology includes reproductions of the ornate cover pages from the sheet music. Introduction and notes by a... View more info
By: De Carle, Donald
Price: $8.00
Publisher: London, N.A.G. Press Ltd: 1971
Edition: 2nd Edition
Seller ID: 0503003865
159 pp. with line drawing on nearl every page. Blue pebbled cloth. With bibliography, chronology of British monarchs and their respective clock styles. Very little wear, no markings. An alphabetical guide to various British, American and European clocks, mostly from the 18th to 20th centuries. Some entries, such as that for Big Ben, include a wealth of historical and technical detail. Most are a paragraph or two. Gives value ranges in British pounds. The author has repor... View more info
By: Harvey, Miles
Price: $4.00
Publisher: NY, Random House: 2000
Edition: 4th Printing.
Seller ID: 010183
405 pp. Nearly new, no markings or creasing. A compelling exploration of the weird world of maps and their black market through a recounting of noted map thief Gilbert Bland. Size: 12ni -- 7.25 in. View more info
Price: $6.00
Publisher: Iola, Wisconsin, Krause Publications: 2000
Edition: Second Edition.
Seller ID: 009949
202 pp., bibliography, glossary. Nearly 500 b&w photos, plus 16 pp. of color photos. More than 3000 listings. Lightly used, no markings, spine uncreased. Size: 8vo -- 9 in Tall View more info
Price: $3.50
Publisher: Ny, Alfred a Knopf Inc: 1982
Edition: 1st Paperback Edition
Seller ID: 009062
334 pp. plus about 50 pp of appendix matter (price guide, glossary, bibliography etc.) Many color photos and b&w detail sketches. A comprehensive guide to main styles of American furntiture, from 1600s onward to Mission and Art Deco styles. Also includes miscellaneous items such as hall trees , mirrors and vanity tables. Part of the Knopf Collectors' Guides to American Antiques. Foldout DJ with chipping and tears covers stiff wraps. 8vo -- 8.25 in Tall By 4.25 in Wide View more info
Price: $8.50
Publisher: NY, Praeger Publishers: 1973
Edition: Reprint.
Seller ID: 009916
246 pp. Close to new, slight rubbing on corners of jacket. Text clean. Detailed survey of pewter found in American homes since colonial times. Includes technical chapters on how it's made. Numerous b&w photos showing examples, markings, etc. Many are taken from the collection of Winterthur, the DuPont estate that is now a museum. Author is a Yale art professor and former director of Winterthur. Besides a catalog of Winterthur's holdings, it includes a list of other impor... View more info
Price: $8.00
Publisher: NY, McBride Co.: 1957
Edition: Firsrt Edition.
Seller ID: 009504
128 pp. plus 123 b&w glossy photos of various antiques. Bibliography, index. Wear on spine edges, corners rubbed, bottom end has rubbed spot. Text clean, no marking. Light foxing, mainly on endpapers. A layman's guide to broad categories of antiques, primarily those common in American households, ranging from furniture to china, paintings, silver and candlesticks. Based on a syndicated newspaper column. Lots of tidbits of trivia about the history of antiques. Size: 4to -... View more info
By: Owen, Pat
Price: $5.50
Publisher: Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Owen Enterprises: 1962
Seller ID: 009149
204 pp. No markings, vey clean. Descriptions of annual series of collectible Christmas plates from Denmark, covering 1895 to 1987. Full page photo of each design. Price clipped on dj corner. View more info
Price: $9.00
Publisher: Elkins POark, Pa., Warmar Publishing Co.: 1984
Edition: 2nd Printing.
Seller ID: 009873
553 pp. An alphabetical price guide for 250 categorries of collectibles, ranging from trade cards and toys to beer cans to political buttons, movie memorabilia and various glassware. Thumbed but still very sturdy and clean. This 1984 reference work is useful for tracking the price appreciation of "old stuff" over the decades. As the rear cover states: "The material of your childhood is today's collectible." Size: 8vo --9 in Tall View more info
By: Rockmore, Cynthia and Julian
Price: $5.00
Publisher: New York, Hawthorn Books: 1978
Edition: First Edition.
Seller ID: 005310
160 pp. on glossy stock, index. Close to new, no markings. Faint rubbing on corners. A few faint foxing spots. Lacks dust jacket. Numerous simple line drawings of various antiques, giving their general design features. A few color sketches included. A pair of antique hunters reminisce about country auctions they've attended throughout America. Venues include the Sugar Bush Farm Auction in Salem (central Mass.); Auction near the RR Bridge in Poughkeepsie, N.Y.,; Painted B... View more info
By: Sack, Albert
Price: $9.00
Publisher: NY, Crown Publishers: 1960
Edition: 4th Printing.
Seller ID: 006025
303 pp. Moderate wear, fading along cover edges, Binding still mostly firm. Previous owner's name in light ink on endpaper corner. A pictorial guide to grading American antique furniture, with hundreds of thumbnail photos and captions giving details of evaluation. Typically, a particular piece is shown in "good" "better" and "best" examples, with explanations of the grading. Foreword by John Meredith Graham II, curator, Colonial Williamsburg. Size... View more info
By: Voss, Thomas M.
Price: $5.00
Publisher: New York, Bonanza Books: 1981
Edition: 8th Printing
Seller ID: 006091
383 pp. Nearly new, text lightly toned. Slight ding to dj edge. Light edge wear to spine. Gilt titling on brown cloth. Text clean, no markings. Numerous line drawings, plus glossary, reading list, picture index. bibliography. A folksy guide to finding and identifying worthwhile country furniture at auctions, antique shops, junk shops. Pointers for bidding. View more info
Price: $5.00
Publisher: NY, Dover Publications: 1968
Edition: Reprint.
Seller ID: 009872
133 pp., 38 full page plates, 4 color illustrations. A couple of small dings to edge of front cover and spine. Text clean, binding firm. The great-grandson of Ware recounts his life and career as a clockmaker in the late 1700s. Known as the inventor of the banjo-style clock, Ware designed clocks for the U.S. Capitol and many other public buildings. The Dover edition is an unabridged reprint of the 1911 original. Size: 8vo -- 9.25 in View more info
