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2008 Standard Catalog of Firearms: The Collector's Price and Reference Guide (Standard Catalog of Firearms)
Dan Shideler
Krause Publications, 2008
GREAT REFERENCE!
This book presents a great overview of firearms both modern and antique. I've found it to be a great way to quickly locate information on a surprising array of weapons. While usually unable to give a lot of in-depth information on individual arms, it does give a ...
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Max's Words
Kate Banks
Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR), 2006
Max's Words
I bought this book because I thought it was cute (the cover intrigued me). I took it to my classroom to share with my lst grade students. They got so excited about it that they thought our class should start a word collection. So I drug out old magazines & ...
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The Official Red Book: A Guide Book of United States Coins 2009 (Guide Book of United States Coins (Spiral)) ...
R. S. Yeoman
Whitman Publishing, 2008
For Coin Collectors
I've relied on older editions of the Official Red Book for information about various coins that I've seen. Having been a coin collector since I was a child, I decided to purchse this book to see what information has changed or been updated. From time to time, I've ...
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Blue Book of Gun Values: 29th Edition (Blue Book of Gun Values)
S. P. Fjestad
Blue Book Publications, 2008
Blue Book of Gun Values-29th Edition
Extremely comprehensive and valuable tool for gun collectors who wish to determine value of a firearm for purchase or sale.
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Blue Smoke and Murder
Elizabeth Lowell
William Morrow, 2008
BLUE SMOKE MURDER
Excellent, well written, keeps you involved from the beginning to the end. This is one book you can't wait for the ending for what happens yet you really don't want it to come that soon. Also, very little romance. good suspense and action....rich
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Possession: A Romance
A.S. Byatt
Random House, 1991
An instant classic
I just finished reading A.S. Byatt's Possession, and I have been completely blown away. It's a long book (555 pages), but, in my opinion, it's totally worth it. If you are an English major, this book is a dream come true for you. Byatt writes a modern classic, complete ...
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The Celestine Prophecy
James Redfield
Warner Books, Inc., 1997
Life Changing
When I first read this book years ago it was life changing for me. It set me upon my spiritual and physical path in a way that no other book could ever do. The insights and revelations made within this fantastic story resonate with such truth that I had the chills and ...
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National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Rocks and Minerals (National Audubon Society Field ...
NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY
Knopf, 1979
great resource
As a Library Media Specialist, I receive requests for all sorts of books. This one was a request from an earth science instructor for a book that gave some really good examples of rocks and minerals --in color.
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The Home-Based Bookstore: Start Your Own Business Selling Used Books on Amazon, eBay or Your Own Web Site
Steve Weber
Weber Books, 2005
Two extraordinary books
I highly recommend these two extraordinary books. They are very helpful for deep seekers of life and psychology. 1) RUMI & SELF PSYCHOLOGY (PSYCHOLOGY OF TRANQUILTIY) 2) SARA'S THERAPY: THE WAY TO PURITY
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State Series Quarters Collector Map (State Series)
Whitman Pub Llc, 2006
Absolutely Wonderful Product
I cannot say enough good about this product. I have been reading reviews on others quarter collecting albums and had settled on buying this one, then they ran out of them. I was really upset, but because of my procrastination, they got in a new shipment by the time I ...
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Kovels' Antiques & Collectibles Price Guide 2009: America's Bestselling and Most Up-to-Date Antiques Annual ...
Ralph and Terry Kovel, Terry Kovel
Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, 2008
America's most respected authorities on antiques have compiled the biggest, most thorough, and best-organized price guide on the market, featuring 42,000 appraiser-approved ACTUAL prices in 700 categories?and more than 2,500 color pictures! Everyone from the casual collector to the antiques professional can find the value of what he or she owns ...
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Kovels' Antiques & Collectibles Price List 2008: The Bestselling Price Guide in America- 40th Anniversary ...
Ralph and Terry Kovel, Terry Kovel
Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, 2007
kovel's 2008 price list is INVALUABLE
The Kovel's book is by far the most detailed, entertaining and informative price book I have ever owned. It helps us sellers and buyers and on line shoppers understand real-time market values. I like that it is based on ACTUAL prices. ( after all things are really only ...
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Collections of Nothing
William Davies King
University Of Chicago Press, 2008
A brilliant and eloquent treatise
William Davies King is an eccentric genius who bares his soul in this astute, frightfully intimate, and painfully honest exploration of the psychology of collecting. The writing is exquisite and witty (e.g. "They would become playful wrights, and I would knot" and ...
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Let's Go Rock Collecting (Let'S-Read-And-Find-Out Science. Stage 2)
Roma Gans
HarperTrophy, 1997
Top Grade!
Let's Go Rock Collecting is an excellent book in the Let's Read and Find Out Science Series. My son started with this book when he was 4 (he's now 5). It has great illustrations that capture a child's attention and actual photos of the various rocks described so that ...
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Flayderman's Guide to Antique American Firearms and Their Values
Norm Flayderman
Gun Digest Books, 2007
Flayderman's Guide RULES!
I have an old Flayderman's from the 1980s that has been a great source of information over the years on antique firearms. The sheer amount of information gathered in it is incredible and the latest edition is, believe it or not, even better! More information on many ...
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