Antiques Collectibles category: 2714 books
by Elizabeth Poyet
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2004
The Little Black Book of Wine: A Simple Guide to the World of Wine serves up everything you need to know about wine, minus the pretense. Demystifies lingo and lore and teaches how to serve, preserve, store, and evaluate wines. Covers wine terms, developing your wine sense, types of grapes, and wines...
How to Love Wine
A Memoir and Manifesto
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2012
Eric Asimov, the acclaimed chief wine critic for the New York Times, has written a beautiful and thought-provoking combination memoir and manifesto, How to Love Wine.
With charm, wit, and intelligence, Asimov tells how he went from writing beer reviews for his high school newspaper on Long...
The Age of Homespun
Objects and Stories in the Creation of an American Myth
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2009
They began their existence as everyday objects, but in the hands of award-winning historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, fourteen domestic items from preindustrial America–ranging from a linen tablecloth to an unfinished sock–relinquish their stories and offer profound insights into our history.
In...
The Book of William
How Shakespeare's First Folio Conquered the World
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
The first complete collection of Shakespeare's plays was almost never printed. Only the machinations of several wealthy donors and publishers brought it into existence, and even then it was practically unnoticed. Many of the original 750 copies of Shakespeare's First Folio were gone before the turn...
by Luis Timms
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2012
This book covers several topics including:
Chapter 1: The Basics Of Coin Collecting Chapter 2: Learning The Ropes Of Numismatics Chapter 3: Keeping Coins Clean Using A Folder Chapter 4: On Mints And Mint Marks Chapter 5: How-to-find-coin-collecting-dealers Chapter 6: Rare-coin-collecting-can-you-do-it...
The Man Who Loved Books Too Much
The True Story of a Thief, a Detective, and a World of Literary Obsession
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2009
In the tradition of The Orchid Thief, a compelling narrative set within the strange and genteel world of rare-book collecting: the true story of an infamous book thief, his victims, and the man determined to catch him.
Rare-book theft is even more widespread than fine-art theft. Most thieves,...
by John Schwartz, Scott Lindquist
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2011
This reference, designed for the specialist and dealer, offers the most complete data to be found anywhere for small-size currency, organized and listed by specific series, including accurate population figures for each. The book also contains detailed tutorial information to guide the collector.
Largest...
by R.S. Yeoman
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2013
Since 1946 the Guide Book of United States Coins has served collectors as the preeminent annual reference for coin specifications, mintages, values, and photographs. With more than 22 million copies in print, the Guide Book is well established as the hobby’s most popular reference. The Professional...
A Thousand Cuts
The Bizarre Underground World of Collectors and Dealers Who Saved the Movies
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
A Thousand Cuts is a candid exploration of one of America's strangest and most quickly vanishing subcultures. It is about the death of physical film in the digital era and about a paranoid, secretive, eccentric, and sometimes obsessive group of film-mad collectors who made movies and their projection...
by Marjorie Hart
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
“Hart has a genuine gift for conveying the texture of midcentury Manhattan…. [She makes] the dilemmas of her own young life both compelling and contemporary.”
—USA Today
“[A] glorious once upon a time fairytale come true….I loved every moment!”
—Adriana Trigiani, author...
by Allen Ahearn,Patricia Ahearn
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2011
An introduction to and advice on book collecting with a glossary of terms and tips on how to identify first editions and estimated values for over 20,000 collectible books published in English (including translations) over the last three centuries–about half are literary titles in the broadest...
by Q David Bowers
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2008
Lincoln cents account for nearly a third of the coins the United States has ever minted. In recent times the mintage of Lincoln cents has reached more than five billion per year—nearly equaling the mintage of all the other circulating coins combined. The Lincoln cent is an ever-evolving submarket...
by C Jeanenne Bell
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2008
Make smart sense of today's dynamic world of collectible jewelry when you rely on the answers to key questions about vintage jewelry covered in this new full-color edition of the jewelry collector's classic must-have. Authoritative details, such as maker's marks, outlined in this guide help collectors...
Moby-Duck
The True Story of 28,800 Bath Toys Lost at Sea & of the Beachcombers, Oceanograp hers, Environmentalists & Fools Including the Author Who Went in Search of Them
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2011
Selected by The New York Times Book Review as a Notable Book of the Year A revelatory tale of science, adventure, and modern myth.
When the writer Donovan Hohn heard of the mysterious loss of thousands of bath toys at sea, he figured he would interview a few oceanographers, talk to a few beachcombers,...