Antique Trader Book Collector's Price Guide

Antique Trader Book Collector's Price Guide
Author: Richard Russell
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 988
Release: 2009-11-13
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN: 144021946X

This new edition of Antique Trader Book Collector's Price Guide provides readers with the information and values to carve a niche for themselves in a market where rare first editions of Jane Austen's Emma and J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone recently sold at auction for 254,610 dollars and 40,355 dollars respectively. Organized in 13 categories, including Americana, banned, paranormal and mystery, this guide discusses identifying and grading books, and provides collectors with details for identifying and assessing books in 8,000 listings.

Antique Trader Collectible Cookbooks Price Guide

Antique Trader Collectible Cookbooks Price Guide
Author: Patricia Eddie Edwards
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 496
Release: 2008-10-15
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN: 1440219125

Whether your collection features a hefty helping of grandmas worn, but cherished cookbooks from years past, or a few recipe-rich treasures of your own, this fact and photo-filled guide will feed any cookbook fascination. This reference, written by the owners of OldCookbooks.com serves up 1,500 American cookbooks and recipe booklets from the 20th century, complete with interesting details and historical notes about each, plus estimated values.

Antique Trader Tools Price Guide

Antique Trader Tools Price Guide
Author: Clarence Blanchard
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 368
Release: 2010-02-08
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN: 1440219494

The Most Valuable Tool in Your Toolbox Lacking the edge on tool information? Cut through the competition and hammer home deals like a pro with Antique Trader Tools Price Guide. Featuring 700 color photos, thousands of listings with current values, market trends, and collecting advice, it's the definitive reference on antique tools. This book features: • 700 color photos, with actual prices received at auctions • 2,000 listings covering planes, braces, drills, saws, hammers, levels, rules, squares, gauges, scientific instruments, patented tools, advertising, and much more • Information on building a collection, condition grading, market trends, and investing New! • Chapter on collecting Stanley tools • Condition grading photos

Antique Trader Bottles Identification and Price Guide

Antique Trader Bottles Identification and Price Guide
Author: Michael Polak
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 927
Release: 2008-12-15
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN: 1440219249

This new edition of The Bottle bible is loaded with listings, current market values and trademark data for 50 years of bottles produced during the 19th and 20th centuries. With this book in hand, the tools to positively identify and accurately assess bottles in your collection are at your fingertips. Review tips for spotting reproductions, determining rarity and identifying factors that affect values and for 50 plus categories of bottles (with 20 new areas) including bottles from Avon, Ballantine, Jim Beam, Lionstone, Miniatures, and Violin and Banjo among others.

Antique Trader Antiques & Collectibles 2012 Price Guide

Antique Trader Antiques & Collectibles 2012 Price Guide
Author: Eric Bradley
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 2003
Release: 2011-09-06
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN: 1440217157

America's No. 1 Selling Price Guide For nearly 30 years, Antique Trader Antiques & Collectibles has been the leading source for information on antiques and collectibles. Filled with expert advice, vetted values and 4,500 color photographs, Antique Trader provides the clearest and most dependable picture of this amazingly diverse and magnificent market. Inside you will enjoy a variety of new collecting areas, as well as old favorites. Including: Asian art, bottles, ceramics, Civil War collectibles, clocks, comic books, cookie jars, figurines, furniture, glass, Hallmark Keepsake Ornaments, illustration art, kitchenware, perfume bottles, petroliana, toys, vintage clothing and Zippo lighters. Also new this year is Top Lots, a feature highlighting the bestselling results from some of the finest auction houses nationwide.

Antique Trader Vintage Magazines Price Guide

Antique Trader Vintage Magazines Price Guide
Author: Richard Russell
Publisher: Krause Publications
Total Pages: 520
Release: 2005-08-18
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN: 9780896891562

Whether it's historic relevance or artistic impression that draws people to collect magazines, this handy reference with 1,000 full-color photos and updated pricing is the perfect tool for collectors. With listings for magazines of 1830 to post-WWII, Antique Trader Vintage Magazine Price Guide is the most comprehensive guide on the market. &break;&break;This thorough reference explores magazines that feature the work of literacy giants with Edgar Allan Poe, Arthur Conan Doyle, and famed illustrator Maxfield Parrish. Magazines including The Saturday Evening Post and The Strand Magazine are featured with sub-categories and listings to assist collectors in identification. This celebration of print history is sure to please current collectors, and spark an interest in anyone with an attic full of vintage magazines. &break;&break;Features 250+ magazines &break;&break;Contains 1,000 brilliant photos of covers and images

Antiques 101

Antiques 101
Author: Frank Farmer Loomis, IV
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 328
Release: 2005-08-26
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN: 1440225117

Master Antique Styles Painlessly Not sure how to tell Chippendale from Queen Anne, or Art Deco from Art Nouveau? Learn the easy way with the author's entertaining style. Frank Farmer Loomis IV is an expert communicator who knows how to engage students with anecdotes and humor. If you're looking for clear, simple explanations rather than unpronounceable terms like corbeille a fleurs (flower basket) or sang de boeuf (red glaze), you've come to the right place, as he will "demystify all the perplexing twaddle" for you. And while you're learning, discover your antiquing personality and how antiquing can reduce stress. A User-Friendly Reference for Antiquers • Master 16 major antique furniture styles and the six main woods • Use furniture styles to identify and date other antiques • Learn the various types of china, silver, pewter, and their marks

The Antique Trader's Antiques and Collectibles Price Guide, 2001

The Antique Trader's Antiques and Collectibles Price Guide, 2001
Author: Kyle Husfloen
Publisher: Antique Trader
Total Pages: 932
Release: 2000
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN: 9780873418904

For 30 years, "Antique Trader" has been producing price guides for the antiques and collectibles marketplace. This latest edition carries these authoritative, detailed guides into the new millennium with 20,000 detailed listings, including special coverage of "hot" items. 3,000 photos.

2009 Writer's Market Listings

2009 Writer's Market Listings
Author: Robert Brewer
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 1521
Release: 2008-06-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1582976783

For 88 years, Writer's Market has given fiction and nonfiction writers the information they need to sell their work–from completely up-to-date listings to exclusive interviews with successful writers. The 2009 edition provides all this and more with over 3,500 listings for book publishers, magazines and literary agents, in addition to a completely updated freelance rate chart. In addition to the thousands of market listings, you'll find up-to-date information on becoming a successful freelancer covering everything from writing query letters to launching a freelance business, and more.