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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- www.schifferbooks.com – new reference books.
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