Books for the Beginner Collector

  • The Daguerreotype in America by Beaumont Newhall
  • All Color Book of Oriental Carpets and Rugs by Stanley Reed
  • Vintage Jewelry : Identification and Price Guide by Leigh Leshner
  • Watches Field Guide by Dean Judy
  • Watches by Dean Judy
  • 200 Years of Dolls by Dawn Herlocher
  • Old Fishing Lures & Tackle: Identification and Price Guide, 7the Edition by Tim Watts
  • Heddon Plastic Lures: Identification & Price Guide by Russell E. Lewis
  • Art Deco Chrome: The Chase Era by Richard J. Kilbride
  • How to Know American Antique Furniture by Robert Bishop
  • Discovering Antiques: A Guide to the World of Antiques and Collectibles by Eric Knowles
  • Chairs, Tables, Sofas, and Beds by Marvin D. Schwartz
  • Chests, Cupboards, Desks, and Other Pieces by William C. Ketchum
  • Collector’s Guide to Art Deco by Mary Frank Gaston
  • Heintz Art Metal Silver-on-Bronze Wares by Kevin McConnell
  • More Roycroft Art Metal with Price Guide by Kevin McConnell
  • Art Deco Chrome: The Chase Era by Richard J. Kilbride
  • Collectible Fountain Pens by Glen Benton Bowen
  • The Encyclopedia of Golf Collectibles by John M. Olman and Morton W. Olman
  • The Random House Dictionary of Art and Artists edited by Sir David Piper
  • Primer for Lamps and Lighting by Willard Allphin
  • A Price Guide to Rookwood Pottery edited by L-W Books
  • Collecting American Pewter by Katherine Ebert
  • Miller’s Pocket Antiques Fact File: Essential Information for Dealers, Collectors and Enthusiasts by Judith and Martin Miller
  • Stickley Craftsman Furniture Catalogs (catalog reprint)
  • Craftsman Furniture Made by Gustav Stickley at the Craftsman Workshops, Eastwood, N.Y. (catalog reprint)
  • Limbert’s Arts & Crafts Furniture Made in Grand Rapids and Holland (catalog reprint)
  • Craftsman Bungalows: 59 Homes From “The Craftsman” edited by Gustav Stickley
  • Heywood-Wakefield Modern Furniture Identification and Value Guide by Steve Rouland & Roger Rouland
  • Life-Time Furniture: The Cloister Styles Grand Rapids Bookcase and Chair Company (catalog reprint)
  • Americana: Folk and Decorative Art edited by Art & Antiques
  • American Baskets: A Cultural History of a Traditional Domestic Art by Robert Shaw
  • Sandfords Guide to Nicodemus by Jim Riebel
  • White Ironstone, A Survey of its Many Forms: Undecorated Flow Blue, Mulberry, Copper Lustre by Dawn Stoltzfus
  • Schroeder’s Antiques Price Guide edited by Sharon & Bob Huxford
  • Yellow Ware: The Transitional Ceramic by Joan Leibowitz
  • A Field Guide to American Antique Furniture: A Unique Visual System for Identifying the Style of Virtually Any Piece of American Antique Furniture by Joseph T. Butler
  • American Country Furniture: 1780-1875 by Ralph & Terry Kovel
  • Furniture Treasury by Wallace Nutting
  • The Bulfinch Anatomy of Antique Furniture: An Illustrated Guide to Identifying Period, Detail, and Design by Tim Forrest
  • The Illustrated Dictionary of Antiques & Collectibles by Judith Miller
  • Antique Collector’s Directory of Period Detail by Paul Davidson
  • American Antique Furniture: A Book for Amateurs by E. G. Miller

Books for the Intermediate Collector

  • Mexican Folk Retablos by Gloria Fraser Giffords
  • Chinese Carpets by Charles I. Rostov and Jia Guanyan
  • 1830′s to 1990′s American Sterling Silver Flatware: An Identification & Value Guide by Maryanne Dolan
  • Classic Guitars Identification & Price Guide by Nick Freeth
  • Nautical Antiques for the Collector by Jean Randier
  • Silhouettes in America, 1790-1840: A Collector’s Guide by Blume J. Rifken
  • Antique Medical Instruments by C. Keith Wilbur, MD
  • Early Utah Furniture by Connie Morningstar
  • The History & Folklore of American Country Tinware 1700-1900 by Margaret Coffin
  • The Furniture of John Henry Belter and the Rococo Revival by Marvin D. Schwartz, et al.
  • Assume Nothing: A Manual for Buyers of American and English Antique Furniture by Robert F. Weinhagen, Jr.
  • Fake, Fraud, or Genuine? by Myrna Kaye
  • At Home: The American Family: 1750-1870 by Elisabeth Garrett
  • All the Best Rubbish by Ivor Noel Hume
  • Tribal Rugs: A Buyer’s Guide by Lee Allane
  • The Antiques Directory Furniture: 7000 Illustrated Examples of Fine Furniture edited by Judith & Martin Miller
  • Auction Madness by Charles Hamilton
  • Field Guide to American Antique Furniture by Joseph T. Butler
  • Antique Collector’s Dictionary of Period Detail by Paul Davidson

Books for the Advanced Collector

  • Charles M. Russell: A Catalogue Raisonné, by B. Byron Price, Editor.
  • Charles M. Russell, Sculptor by Rick Stewart.
  • Oberfränkische Bauernmödel by Engelbert Wagner
  • Miracles on the Border: Retablos of Mexican Migrants to the United States by Jorge Durand & Douglas S. Massey
  • Mexican Folk Retablos: Masterpieces on Tin by Gloria Fraser Giffords
  • Netsuke, Familiar & Unfamiliar: New Principles for Collecting by Raymond Bushell.
  • Classical Chinese Furniture in the Minneapolis Institute of Arts by Robert D. Jacobsen with Nicholas Grindley
  • Samplers: Five Centuries of a Gentle Craft by Anne Sebba
  • Tenun Ikat, Indonesian Ikats by Dra. Suwati Kartiwa, M.Sc.
  • American Silversmiths and Their Marks by Stephen Guernsey Cook Ensko
  • Greene & Greene Furniture and Related Designs by Randell L. Makinson
  • Early Paper Money of America 5th Edition by Eric P. Newman
  • Artful Ownership: Art Law, Valuation, and Commerce in the United States, Canada, and Mexico by Aaron M. Milrad
  • Marks on German, Bohemian and Austrian Porcelain 1710 to the Present by Robert E. Röntgen
  • British Longcase Clocks by Derek Roberts
  • Willard’s Patent Time Pieces: A History of the Weight-Driven Banjo Clock by Paul J. Foley
  • Canes From the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century by Jeffry B. Snyder
  • Union Cases: A Collector’s Guide to the Art of America’s First Plastics by Clifford and Michele Krainik
  • Frederick Carder and Steuben Glass: American Classics by Thomas P. Dimitroff
  • Archimede Seguso: Mid-Mod Glass From Murano by Leslie Piña
  • Fratelli Toso: Italian Glass 1854-1980 by Leslie Piña
  • How to Restore and Decorate Chairs by Roberta Ray Blanchard
  • Antique Chinese Rugs by the Tiffany Studios
  • Irish Glass by Phelps Warren
  • Auctions: The Social Construction of Value by Charles W. Smith
  • New Spanish Design by Guy Julier
  • The Pierce Piano Atlas, 12th Edition, edited by Larry Ashley
  • On Connoisseurship and Reason in the Authentication of Art by Andrew W. Brainerd
  • American Furniture: Understanding Styles, Construction, and Quality by John T. Kirk
  • The New Fine Points of Furniture: Early American: Good, Better, Best, Superior, Masterpiece by Albert Sack
  • American Seating Furniture: 1680-1730 by Benno M. Forman
  • Connecticut Valley Furniture: Eliphalet Chapin and His Contemporaries, 1750-1800 by Thomas P. Kugelman & Alice K. Kugelman
  • Classic America: The Federal Style and Beyond by Wendell Garrett
  • In Pointed Style: The Gothic Revival In America, 1800-1860 curated by Elizabeth Field and Stuart P. Field
  • Neat Pieces: The Plain-Style Furniture of Nineteenth-Century Georgia foreword by Deanne D. Levison
  • John Haley Bellamy: Carver of Eagles by Yvonne Brault Smith
  • Three Cumberland County Wood Carvers: Schimmel, Mountz, Barrett by Milton E. Flower
  • American Furniture: The Federal Period by Charles F. Montgomery
  • Soap Hollow: The Furniture and Its Makers by Charles R. Muller
  • Classical Norfolk Furniture, 1810-1840 by Thomas R.J. Newbern and James R. Melchor
  • Folk Furniture of Canada’s Doukhobars, Hutterites, Mennonites and Ukrainians by John Fleming & Michael Rowan
  • English Furniture: The Georgian Period (1750-1830) by Margaret Jourdain & F. Rose
  • English Furniture of the Eighteenth Century: Pleasures and Treasures by David Nickerson
  • The English Candlestick 1425-1925 by Eloy Koldeweij
  • The Folding Screen byCharles Hemming
  • Italian Empire Furniture: Furnishings and Interior Design from 1800-1843 by Enrico Colle
  • French Eighteenth-Century Furniture by Geneviève Souchal
  • Biedermeier by Angus Wilkie
  • Biedermeier: The Invention of Simplicity by Hans Ottomeyer, et al
  • Treasury of Design and Antiques by Charles P. Hornug
  • Tribal & Village Rugs by Peter F. Stone
  • American Folk Painters of Three Centuries edited by Jean Lipman & Tom Armstrong
  • The Pottery of the Shenandoah Valley Region by H.E. Comstock
  • Papunya: A Place Made After the Story by Geoffrey Bardon & James Bardon
  • Muraqqá: Imperial Mughal Albums by Elaine Wright
  • Images From the Floating World by Richard Lane
  • Mexican Silver by Penny Chittim Morrill
  • Norwegian Folk Art: The Migration of Tradition edited by Marion Nelson
  • Five Star Folk Art: One Hundred American Masterpieces by Jean Lipman, et al
  • Drawing on America’s Past: Folk Art, Modernism, and the Index of American Design by Virginia Tuttle Clayton, et al
  • Women Silversmiths 1685-1845 by Philippa Glanville & Jennifer Faulds Goldsborough
  • American Furniture: Queen Anne and Chippendale Periods by Joseph Downs
  • The Mirror Book: English, American, & European by Herbert F. Schiffer
  • Collecting Picture and Photo Frames by Stuart Schneider
  • A Key Into the Language of Woodsplint Baskets edited by Ann McMullen and Russell G. Handsman
  • Nantucket Lightship Baskets by Katherine and Edgar Seeler
  • Mennonite Arts by Clarke Hess
  • Shaker Furniture: The Craftsmanship of an American Communal Sect by Edward Deming Andrews and Faith Andrews
  • The Shaker Image edited by Elmer R. Pearson
  • Shaker Furniture and Objects From the Faith and Edward Deming Andrews Collection published for the Renwick Gallery

Books for the Southern Collector

  • Thomas Day: Master Craftsman and Free Man of Color by Patricia P. Marshall and Jo R. Leimenstoll
  • Tom Day, Master of Mahogany: Free Black Cabinetmaker by Mary Lyons
  • Index of Southern Potters by Howard A. Smith
  • Virginia Obsolete Paper Money by Richard Jones and Keith Littlefield
  • A Guide to the Identification of Virginia Projectile Points by William Jack Hranicky & Floyd Painter
  • Artists in Virginia Before 1900 by R. Lewis Wright
  • Great Road Style: The Decorative Arts Legacy of Southwest Virginia & Northeast Tennessee by Betsy K. White
  • Southern Furniture: 1680-1830 by Ronald Hurst and Jonathan Prown
  • The Regional Arts of the South by David Bivens and Forsyth Alexander
  • The Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts (MESDA) by John Garrett Hind
  • Furniture of Williamsburg and Eastern Virginia: 1710-1790 by Wallace B. Gusler
  • The Furniture Of Coastal North Carolina: 1710-1820 by John Bivens
  • Southern Antiques by Paul H. Burroughs
  • Southern Folk Art edited by Cynthia Elyce Rubin
  • Silversmiths of Virginia by George Barton Cutten
  • Virginia Antiques by Marleine Reader Harris
  • Appalachian White Oak Basketmaking: Handing Down the Basket by Rachel Nash Law and Cynthia W. Taylor
  • Baskets and Basket Makers in Southern Appalachia byJohn Rice Irwin

Books: First American Material Culture

  • The Language of Native American Baskets From the Weaver’s View by Bruce Bernstein
  • Indian Basket Weaving: The Navajo School of Indian Basketry by The Indian School of Basketry
  • Pomo Basketmaking: A Supreme Art for the Weaver by Elsie Allen
  • First American Art: The Charles and Valerie Diker Collection of American Indian Art edited by Bruce Bernstein & Gerald McMaster
  • North American Indian Jewelry and Adornment From Prehistory to the Present by Lois Sherr Dubin
  • Chasing Rainbows: Collecting American Indian Trade & Camp Blankets by Barry Friedman
  • American Indian Basketry by Otis Tufton Mason
  • American Indian and Eskimo Basketry: A Key to Identification by Charles Miles & Pierre Bovis
  • Woven Worlds: Basketry From the Clark Field Collection at the Philbrook Museum of Art edited by Lydia L. Wyckoff

Books: African Material Culture

  • African Art In American Collections by Warren M. Robbins & Nancy Ingram Nooter
  • African Art: Its Background and Traditions by R.S. Wassing
  • Black Africa: Masks, Sculpture, Jewelry by Laure Meyer
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