Books for the Beginner Collector
- 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
- How to Know American Antique Furniture by Robert Bishop
- Chairs, Tables, Sofas, and Beds by Marvin D. Schwartz
- Chests, Cupboards, Desks, and Other Pieces by William C. Ketchum
- Discovering Antiques: A Guide to the World of Antiques and Collectibles by Eric Knowles
Books for the Intermediate Collector
- 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
- Auctions: The Social Construction of Value by Charles W. Smith
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
Books for the Southern Collector
- Virginia Obsolete Paper Money by Richard Jones and Keith Littlefield
- 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
Sources From Which to Buy Books About Antiques On-line
- www.abebooks.com – all kinds of books out of print.
- www.alibris.com – all kinds of books out of print.
- www.schifferbooks.com – new reference books.
- www.lwbooks.com – new reference books.
- www.collectorbooks.com – new reference books.