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Silver Jewelry Treasures

$16.95

This is a treasury of silver jewelry from 20th century European, American Indian, Mexican, and modern designers. Hand-wrought, filigree, openwork, repousse and inaly designs are carefully described. The many styles of jewelry are chronologically arranged. More than 250 dynamic color...

U.S. Navy PB4Y-1 (B-24) Liberator Squadrons

$29.95

Alan Carey’s new book, his fifth on USN and USMC bomber units of the Second World War, is the story of U.S. Navy Fleet Air Wing Seven (FAW-7) and the men who flew the Navy version of the Consolidated B-24...

Fashionable Clothing from the Sears Catalogs

$29.95

Reflecting the trends of wartime, with an emphasis on the ever-changing roles of women in society, this book illustrates the movement towards more masculine styles and patriotic fashions and colors, while still representing the tailored and restrictive styles that had...

Precision Pendulum Clocks

$79.95

This long-awaited volume chronicles the horological work carried out in France, Germany, and North America and completes the fascinating history of precision timekeeping in recent time. In France, renowned clockmakers include the Berthouds, the Lepautes, Robin, Janvier, Lepine, LeRoy and...

International Dollhouses and Accessories

$59.95

This wonderful collector's book features illustrations of over one hundred dollhouses from Europe and America, plus several hundred furniture items including some from Japan. The houses and furniture date from the 1880s to the 1980s and are displayed in over...

American Airborne Pathfinders in World War II

$49.95

Trained in the use of the Eureka radar, holophan lights, and colored ground panels, the pathfinders dropped thirty minutes before the main airborne landing to provide ground guidance for successive airborne jumps. The concept of the pathfinders proved successful and...

Sikorsky HH-52A

$35.00

In The Sikorsky HH-52A, noted historian Lennart Lundh presents this diminutive helicopter’s story for the first time. Covered are design details, international service, licensed production by Mitsubishi, and the story of the “Seaguard’s” use by the U.S. Coast Guard. A...

Trademarks of the 1950s

$29.95

More than 2,000 trademarks, logos, and typefaces display the creative mindset of the 1950s. These marks include clothing companies, drugstore products, alcohol and cigars, and food and dairy products. The marks are arranged numerically by registration number from the U.S....

Central Glass Company

$39.95

This new study of the Central Glass Company, Wheeling, West Virginia, and its beautiful glass is one of the most comprehensive books in the collecting field. Heavily illustrated with color images, historical documents, and catalog pages, it will satisfy both...

An Illustrated History of Hairstyles: 1830–1930

$39.95

A fascinating timeline of hair fashion emerges through a progression of images. This extensively illustrated history of hairstyles is a guide for theatrical hairstylists, costumers, and historical reenactors, and provides invaluable reference for dating vintage photographs. Employing nearly 500 period...

Skateboards That Rock

$29.95

Over 500 dazzling color photographs show hundreds of distinguished skateboard designs and images, chronologically arranged. An amazing display of graphic design and artistic imagery appears on skateboards made over the last forty years. Early “Plain Janes” gave way to many...

Craft Furniture

$49.95

For many people contentment and fulfillment are found through the skill of their own hands. The 29 craftspeople featured in this book have given up weekly paychecks, pensions, and security for freedom to create their own dreams. The result is...

How We Lived

$29.95

What did normal farm, town, and city dwellers really look like between 1880 and 1940? How did they live? During this era of rapid evolution, Western nations switched from horse-drawn vehicles to airplanes, from oil lamps to electricity, and from...

Evolving Southwest Indian Jewelry

$59.95

This new book is a classic study of Southwest Native American jewelry that documents the fascinating story of evolving designs and techniques from early traders and artists up to the present. The concise yet highly informative text accompanies over 500...

Kaua'i Edge
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Kaua'i Edge

$39.95

Kaua`i Edge captures both the beauty and spirit of the island in more than 110 color images by two award winning photographers. The book takes the viewer on a clockwise tour, from the northern end of the Na Pali coast...

Hippie Artifacts

$29.95

Baby-boomers, this book is for YOU! Hippie artifacts are a potential goldmine today. Abundant undiscovered material still lies in attics and basements from the 1965 to 1973 era. Many of these items are scarce today because they were made in...

More Shelley China™

$39.95

Over 580 marvelous color photographs never seen before in previous publications display hundreds of Shelley China*TM tableware pieces, tea and coffee sets, vases, and much more, in shapes and patterns much desired by the collecting community. A detailed review of...

Art Jewelry Today

$50.00

Art Jewelry Today. Dona Z. Meilach. Here is a beautiful new look at contemporary art jewelry. This invaluable reference will guide those who buy, wear, collect, and create one-of-a-kind, hand-made jewelry to the newest developments and their artist/innovators. Peek into...

Antique Phonograph Accessories & Contraptions

$49.95

The antique phonograph is the center of a beautiful, brilliant, and sometimes bizarre universe of accessories. The commercial development of the phonograph, during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, inspired a host of adjunct technology, from fancifully-painted flower horns...

Dahl-Jensen™ Porcelain Figurines

$49.95

Lovely Danish porcelain figurines by the Dahl-Jensen company are showcased in this first and superb reference for collectors. Celebrated designer Jens Peter Dahl-Jensen worked for the Bing & Grohdahl company before founding his own firm in 1925. He modeled new...

Collectible Fishing Reels

$29.95

A detailed history of the development of fishing reel technology and fascinating stories of the notable manufacturers who produced them are related here. Fly casting, bait casting, spinning, and spin casting reels produced in America and Europe during the nineteenth...

Classic Miniature Vehicles: Northern Europe

$29.95

Here, at last, is a long-awaited volume for collectors of miniature vehicles. After a span of several years, noted authority Edward Force turns his eye toward the vehicles produced in northern Europe from the early to mid-20th century. From Scandinavia...

Planets in Youth

$24.95

To Robert Hand, children are adults in the process of becoming. Parents will welcome this book and use it to help their children learn to cope with the complexities of modern life. Readers of all ages will use it to...

German Panzers on the Offensive

$35.00

The German Army conducted offensive military operations more effectively than any other in the twentieth century. Its unparalleled tactical and operational virtuosity is obscured by the politically conditioned circumstance of its defeat in the century’s two great wars. Writers on...

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