Collecting Books


Instant Expert: Collecting Watches (Instant Expert) Best Price: $7.71 Beaucarmen shows noon on his watch. I'm getting groceries. Sure, I want to wait, but not until...	Collecting Contemporary Best Price: $23.56 I loved this book! Nicely written, easy to refer to, good mixture of examples. If you're going...	To Have and To Hold Best Price: $6.20 In this excellent book,Philipp Bloom tackles a subject that knows no bounds.Anyone who has been...	The Intrepid Art Collector: The Beginner's Guide to Finding, Buying, and Appreciating Art on a Budget Best Price: $8.13 This is a great starter reference for the novice. The guidance is sound, and Lisa Hunter's...	Famous Jewelry Collectors Best Price: $21.32 If you are interested in jewelry, you MUST have this book. A fascinating discourse on jewelry...



The Medici Conspiracy: The Illicit Journey of Looted Antiquities-- From Italy's Tomb Raiders to the World's Greatest Museums Best Price: $2.00 I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in learning more about stolen antiquities. It...	I Bought Andy Warhol Best Price: $3.20 Being an artist, I really got a charge out of seeing the buyers' side of the art world. Andy...	Audubon Art Prints: A Collector's Guide to Every Edition Best Price: $20.54 The book contains very good information. We were looking to buy a couple of prints for...	In Flagrante Collecto (Caught in the Act of Collecting) Best Price: $28.99 This is the best book I have found on Collecting. The writer gets into the state of mind of a...	False Impressions Best Price: $10.00 I've read some of Hoving's memoirs, but this is the first time I've read a book by him that is...



Great Collectors of our Time: Art Collecting Since 1945 Best Price: $52.05 Excellent, if expensive, volume. The first survey of collectors and collecting since the early...	Tales from the Art Crypt: The painters, the museums, the curators, the collectors, the auctions, the art Best Price: $26.01 Feigen does a wonderful job of tooting his own horn and bashing the hard-earned reputations of...	Landscape with Figures: A History of Art Dealing in the United States Best Price: $2.81 How did the United States become not only the leading contemporary art scene in the world, but...	The Art Crowd Best Price: $15.13 This book may have been written decades ago, but the issues are still the same. What does it...	Portrait of Dr. Gachet: The Story of a Van Gogh Masterpiece, Money, Politics, Collectors, Greed, and Loss Best Price: $5.97 While reading about the history of the Sotheby's and Christie's Auction Houses the story of the...

Henry Clay Frick Best Price: $25.99 A very solidly written portrait of Frick as a man, an industrialist, and patron of the arts....	Collecting Japanese Antiques Best Price: $27.51 If you love Japanese antiques, you cannot live without this survey, with superb photography,...	Decorating with China and Glass Best Price: $8.40 I absolutely love this book. The collections are wonderful and the author's ideas for displaying...	Collecting African American Art: Works on Paper and Canvas Best Price: $30.96 This book is a must have for African Americans who are collectors of fine African American art. ...	The Complete Guide to Art Prints: How to Identify, Invest & Care for Your Collection Best Price: $14.99 152 pages with 24 chapters of very useful information about this collectible. Topics range from...

The Art of Buying Art: An Insider's Guide to Collecting Contemporary Art Best Price: $13.33 I've just started exploring art collection and discovered this book. I thought the book had...	Collecting Authentic Indian Arts and Crafts: Traditional Work of the Southwest Best Price: $10.00 From the Indian Arts and Crafts Association, an organization created to promote, preserve and...	Life Is Short, Art Is Long: Maximizing Estate Planning Strategies for Collectors of Art, Antiques, and Collectibles Best Price: $18.42 I truly believe that this book is a must-read for anyone interested in art. The book is divided...	The Art of Collecting Photography (General) Best Price: $11.90 Well written informative book on the subject, lots of photographs and short bios on important...	Kids Collect: Amazing Collections for Fun, Crafts, and Science Fair Projects Kids Collect offers young readers, (as well as their parents, teachers, and caregivers) a...

The Art of Acquiring: A Portrait of Etta and Claribel Cone Best Price: $23.62 Dr. Cone and her sister, Etta, amassed one of the best art collections in American history. How...	William and Henry Walters, the Reticent Collectors Best Price: $3.98 In the mid-nineteenth century, Baltimore businessman William Thompson Walters began to patronize...	Modern and Contemporary Prints: A Practical Guide to Collecting Best Price: $19.99 ' Prints, overshadowed in the past decade by the popularity of photo art, are back in the...	Creative Collectives: Chicana Painters Working in Community Best Price: $11.59 A compelling blend of art history, social analysis, and personal testimony, Creative...	C.D.E. Fortnum and the Collecting and Study of Applied Arts and Sculpture in Victorian England (Journal of the History of Collections) Best Price: $20.35

Currier's Price Guide to American Artists at Auction (Currier's Price Guide to American Artists at Auction, 6th ed) Best Price: $35.00 I bought this book hoping it would give me some guidelines for evaluating art at auctions. The...	The Curious Collector: A Lively Little Tour of 101 Favorite Collectibles Best Price: $11.57 Prospective collectors will be able to find their passion?whatever it may be?with this visually...	Antiques of the Future Best Price: $11.98 This book was beautifully photographed, but only one item per page. I was looking for more...	How to Buy and Sell Art Best Price: $15.76 This guide to collecting art takes beginners from their first visit to an art gallery through...	The Cultures of Collecting There are a number of essays in this book that makes it worth reading. My favorites are: 1. ...

Evaluating Your Collection: The 14 Points of Connoisseurship (Winterthur Decorative Arts Series) Best Price: $13.69 Readers are led to assume that this book will deliver more information than it does.	The Trading Post Guidebook: Where to Find the Trading Posts, Galleries, Auctions, Artists, and Museums of the Four Corners Region While this book is quite outdated, it's still invaluable in many ways. The history alone is...	The Enchanted Ear: Lured into the Music Box Cosmos Best Price: $7.45 Larry Karp has presented for us beautifully many tales that many of us collectors go through...	Odd Man In: Norton Simon and the Pursuit of Culture Best Price: $3.96 Norton Simon was what so many rich men want to be, but can't for lack of the kind of zeal and...	Issues of Authenticity in Chinese Painting Best Price: $14.84 Leading scholars present dissenting opinions to theories expressed in "Along the Riverbank...

Supercollector: A Critique of Charles Saatchi Best Price: $85.92 Third Edition. This book is the only in-depth study of Charles Saatchi as an art collector. It...	Relative Values: Or What's Art Worth? Why do we value art? In what ways do we assess its value? Why do we care so much about the...	The Gold in Your Piano Bench: Collectible Sheet Music--Tearjerkers, Black Songs, Rags, & Blues Best Price: $22.75 The golden age of Tin Pan Alley, from about 1880 to 1950, comes alive in this first in a series...	Collecting Toy Premiums: Bread - Cereal - Radio Best Price: $22.76 Toys purchased with box tops and pocket change in days-gone-by abound in this fascinating and...	Caring for Your Collections Best Price: $20.00 This book was assigned reading in the Museum Studies program I completed several years ago. I...

Missing Masterpieces: Lost Works of Art 1450-1900 (Missing Masterpieces) Best Price: $44.95 This is terrific: scholarly without being pedantic, detailed without being boring, complete...	Kovels' Quick Tips: 799 Helpful Hints on How to Care for Your Collectibles Best Price: $4.89 Kovels' Quick Tips 799 Helpful Hints on How to Care for Your Collectibles Want to know how to...	Instant Expert: Collecting Political Memorabilia This book gives you every presidential campaign from 1789-2000. It will tell you what buttons...	Patriotic Taste: Collecting Modern Art in Pre-Revolutionary Paris Best Price: $13.75 During the final decades of the ancien regime, prominent collectors in Paris commissioned and...	Mrs. Tependris: The Contemporary Years: The Adventures of An Art Collector Best Price: $8.56 Mrs. Tependris-the eccentric, dramatic, lovable, and awardwinning brainchild of artist...

Deep Storage: Collecting, Storing and Archiving in Art (Prestel) Best Price: $480.00	Great Women Collectors Best Price: $13.73 This work is devoted to the very few women who, from 1750 to the present, have assembled...	The Scramble for Art in Central Africa Best Price: $27.95 The contributors to this volume trace the life history of artifacts that were brought to Europe...	Art for Work: The New Renaissance in Corporate Collecting Best Price: $52.00 The collaboration between art and business stretches back as far as Renaissance Italy, and in...	Discovering Art: A User's Guide to the World of Collecting Best Price: $12.00 If youre looking for technical and detailed advice then do not buy this book. It should be...

Collecting and the Internet: Essays on the Pursuit of Old Passions Through New Technologies Best Price: $34.90 The Internet has had a profound effect on collecting--because of the Web, collectibles are now...	Finders, Keepers: Eight Collectors I have to start out by confessing that I bought this book for the pictures. I am fascinated by...

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