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service
The item is fine, however, Amazon's shipping procedures are very slow, and inadequet. I paid for an upgrade in shipping, and the item was two days late, with no explanation from Amazon.I will remember this the next time I need to order.

Blue Book of Gun Values, 27th Edition
Excellent and very comprehensive Gun Value Book covering numerous Mfgs.

Revised
The "Blue Book of Gun Values" 27th ed. is a great buy.Retail is around $40, and well worth it, but for almost half the price on amazon, an excellent deal.With updated values, this edition will surpass the previous especially with current events involving Winchester.Buy it for an accurate "Blue Book" price on guns. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Antiques    2. Antiques & Collectibles    3. Antiques / Collectibles    4. Antiques/Collectibles    5. Books    6. Catalogs    7. Collectors and collecting    8. Consumer Guides    9. Firearms    10. Firearms & Weapons    11. Firearms And Gunsmithing    12. Prices    13. Reference    14. Reference - Price Guides    15. Shooting   

Subjects:  1. Art    2. Art & Art Instruction    3. Atlases - General    4. History - Baroque & Rococo    5. Maps & Road Atlases    6. Science/Mathematics    7. World - General    8. Antiques & collectables: books, manuscripts, ephemera & printed matter    9. Maps, charts & atlases   

Reviews (8)

Amazing Japanese Tattoo Art
This book is a great reference for tattoo artists and other artists that enjoy the art of Japanese tattooing.

fabulous photos, unique access, lost opportunities
It appears to be the sad fate of English-language books on the Japanese tattoo that they so rarely combine all the desired publishing strengths--first-rate photography, unique insights, disciplined writing, and careful documentation--in a single volume.And this is disappointingly the case with Takahiro Kitamura's "Bushido: Legacies of the Japanese Tattoo."The book includes, as previous reviewers have noted, stunningly beautiful photographs, and it benefits mightily from the personal access of Kitamura (who tattoos as the artist Horitaka) to modern practitioners of the Japanese tattoo. However, it is also the case that only a minute percentage of the book's illustrations are captioned and explained, the text keeps shifting perspective and voice, and the glossaries and index are inadequate. Excellent book
Best tattoo book I've ever seen.Large, colorful pictures, detailed descriptions, and beautiful artwork.I had to drive all the way to Japantown in San Francisco to find the book because it's out of print or something, but it was worth the wait.Pick this up, you won't be disappointed... ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Antiques & Collectibles    2. Antiques/Collectibles    3. Beauty & Grooming - General    4. Books    5. Fashion & Grooming    6. Japan    7. Social life and customs    8. Tattooing    9. Body art & tattooing    10. The Arts: General Issues   

Subjects:  1. Antiques    2. Antiques & Collectibles    3. Antiques / Collectibles    4. Antiques/Collectibles    5. Baseball    6. Reference - General    7. Sports Cards - Baseball    8. Antiques & collectables: books, manuscripts, ephemera & printed matter    9. Reference works   

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Another awesome purchase
A really great book to help those of us who need a "recipe" for scrapbooking a page! Truly inspirational.

Great Book
I have enjoyed reading the book and look forward to putting some of the projects on paper. I'm a beginner at scrapbooking. But I do have a great deal of experience in collecting Scrapbooking supplies.

Great Gift for My Wife
Anyone who's new to or intimidated by scrapbooking will benefit from this well-done book. Next to "SCRAPS: Adventures in Scrapbooking" it's my wife's new favorite. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Conservation and restoration    2. Crafts & Hobbies    3. Crafts / Hobbies    4. Hobbies/Crafts    5. Papercrafts    6. Photograph albums    7. Photographs    8. Scrapbooks    9. Scrapbooks, Memory Books    10. Antiques & collectables: books, manuscripts, ephemera & printed matter    11. Paper crafts   

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Really cool pictures
I love looking through this book, Halloween is my favorite holiday and these old graphics make me feel all nostalgic. I even got one of the pictures tattooed on my back shoulder. Cool book.

Inviting The Autumn Muses
Jim Heimann's Halloween: Vintage Holiday Graphics (2005) offers one of the best collections of Olde Halloween images yet available. Drawing material from postcards, paper decorations, magazines, advertisements, package labels, private period photographs, sheet music, masks, costumes, party favors, and other varied sources, the book offers almost two hundred pages of visionary iconography, that, for many, will definitely represent the very nature of the holiday itself.
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Subjects:  1. Art    2. Art & Art Instruction    3. Graphic Arts - General    4. Popular Culture - General    5. 20th century    6. Antiques & collectables: books, manuscripts, ephemera & printed matter    7. Prints & printmaking    8. USA   

Reviews (51)

An Informative Albeit Dated Book
When this book was first printed in May 2002 there's no doubt it amounted to what could then be considered groundbreaking work. Well, that was then. This is now. While I still considered the book a fair read, even for a novice such as myself, it was obvious that it was a bit dated.
Instantly Out of Date
I am an online seller and I was able to borrow a copy. I did have some educational gaps filled in.
the complete guide to bookselling at amazon's market place and other oline sites
good general business review. i liked the emphasis on the nessessary time and travel required to become succesful. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Antiques & Collectibles / Books    2. Books    3. Business & Economics    4. Business & Economics / E-Commerce / Internet Marketing    5. Business & Economics / Small Business    6. Business/Economics    7. Entrepreneurship    8. Home-based Businesses    9. Antiques & Collectibles    10. Book Collecting    11. Book industries and trade    12. Booksellers and bookselling    13. E-Commerce - Internet Marketing    14. Home business    15. Small Business   

Editorial Review

Believe it or not, the first known pop-up element in a book appeared in an astrological manuscript in 1306. During the ensuing centuries, movable mechanics were used in more and more books--but only for adults. In the 1700s a British bookseller came up with the idea of illustrating well-known children's stories with movable flaps of paper. The rest, as they say, is history. Now aspiring paper mechanics (creative engineer-artists who create dimensional and movable books, otherwise known as pop-ups) can learn the how-tos and wherefores of this marvelous craft. From tip-ons to dummies to glue knock-outs, all the intricacies of pop-up production are outlined and explained.Read more

Reviews (13)

Delivers lots more than it promises.
This, as the title says, shows a variety of elementary paper popups - the cute little folded thingies in books and cards that stand up when the page is opened. The book's a real strength that it includes an actual, working specimen of each structure it describes. Except for one or two demonstratons, the popup folds never pass the basic, and never show the incredible breadth of artistry that can go into the best of popups. Still, it's readable and gives you an unambiguous idea of how the finished product will look, work, and be assembled. From that point forward, combining ideas, adapting them to your application, and decorating the paper surface are all up to your creative expression.
Learning Pop ups
I was thrilled with the book. It was just what I wanted and will be a great tool for my artwork. The othe Pop Up book I ordered is the perfect complement to this one.

The strength of this book lies in its website
Elements of Pop Up is one of the few How To Make Pop-Ups books that features patterns for moving parts like wheel/tab mechanisms, which is why I purchased it. However, don't expect to be able to create anything extrememly fancy with this one. The examples are made of simple shapes that expect the user to expand upon them as necessary--this can be a detriment when you're trying to figure out how to alter the pattern to make something more complicated. The most useful part of the book, ironically, isn't even in the book: it's online at www.popupbooks.com, Carter's website. In the Surprise section, one can download all the patterns for making every example shown. Don't pass up buying the book, though. You'll most likely need Elements of Pop Up at your side to figure out how to assemble all your cut out pieces correctly. If you'd rather follow instructions and complete specific projects, I'd recommend Carter/Diaz's other book, Let's Make It Pop-Up! (ISBN 0-689-86508-2), which has pre-printed pictures and contains projects like Blooming Flower and Huggy Bear. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Art - Techniques    2. Children's 9-12 - Art & Art Instruction    3. Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Nonfiction    4. Children: Young Adult (Gr. 7-9)    5. Cut-out craft    6. Design    7. Handbooks, manuals, etc    8. Juvenile Nonfiction    9. Reference - General    10. Toy and movable books    11. Juvenile Nonfiction / Art / Techniques    12. Paper modelling & origami   

Reviews (2)

Awesome $
This is a must for money buffs and the like.

THE best book to identify Colonial bills and their signers.
Wonderful pictures, and even identification of the signers of the bills. Some signatures are hard to make out even if clearly written in dark ink due to the style of writting, but are identified here. Worth every penny! ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Antiques & Collectibles    2. Antiques / Collectibles    3. Antiques/Collectibles    4. Coins, Currency & Medals    5. History    6. Paper Ephemera    7. Paper money    8. Printmaking    9. Reference - Price Guides    10. United States    11. Antiques & collectables: books, manuscripts, ephemera & printed matter    12. Prints & printmaking   

Reviews (5)

A Gem
This is a very strange and beautiful book in pictures. It reads like a dream if you tune in to it, and reveals very deep meanings about the relation between life and death, the human relation to the forces of nature, and time. Even though there are no words, it is possible to understand. If you get into it the symbols become more and more recognizable, and they begin to speak. the calendrical symbols and the spirit deities are completely recognizable. The sequences are all about times, and there is a big element about sacrifice. It has to do with the consequences of change; there is no life without death. The book has a very powerful image of life and death fused back to back that pretty much is the epitome of all the book is about. It's all about life and death in relation to time.

Excellent, and at this price...
This is a wonderful resouce for those interested in ancient Mexico.Full photographic facsimilies of these codices are hideously expensive, and really, most are not in great shape. After extensive research, we have here a great reproduction of what this important work looked like when it was "fresh off the presses."It is beautiful, and in comparison to Dover's similar Codex Nuttall, this work comes with a MUCH better introduction that explains more of the text, the context, and the ideology.Readers will be able to better understand some of the religious principles of the ancient Mexicans (and there is some debate whether this book was painted by Aztecs or Mixtecs, which I won't bore you with!).It shows gods, ceremonies, the calender, and other religious iconography which is interesting, and would be a revelation for more the artisticly inclined. The visuals are wonderfully presented and all in all this is an astonishing bargain.Those with even a casual interest in New World archaeology or art NEED to get this book.

Terrific insight
This book gives terrific insight into the ancient Mexicans, their theology and world view, and their way of life.The illustrations are extremely well done, and the interpretation is on the mark. A must-have for anyone interested in ancient Mesoamerica. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Art    2. Art & Art Instruction    3. Aztec calendar    4. Aztec mythology    5. Aztecs    6. Calendar    7. Codex Borgianus    8. Ethnic Studies - Native American Studies - Tribes    9. History    10. History - Prehistoric & Primitive    11. Manuscripts    12. Native American    13. Antiques & collectables: books, manuscripts, ephemera & printed matter    14. Decorative arts & crafts    15. History / Native American   

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An Inspiring and Moving Tale of a Man's Desire to save Yiddish Literature
Wow, this book was terrific! Aaron Lansky was taking a Yiddish class where he had to go into the lower East side of Manhattan to obtain assigned Yiddish books that were no longer in print. One day while in class, he decided to devote his life to saving as many Yiddish books as he could.
Saving Yiddish Books
Aaron Lansky has devoted his adult life to rescuing, collecting, cataloging, and re-distributing hundreds of thousand of books written in Yiddish.They rescued the books from abandoned libraries, dumpsters, and taken publishers' complete collection when the publisher closed their business doors. They also accepted the private libraries of elderly people who wanted the story of each book preserved as well as serving Lansky and his cadre of volunteers kugel.
Lots about Lansky; little about literature

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Subjects:  1. Antiques & Collectibles    2. Antiques/Collectibles    3. Biography And Autobiography    4. Books    5. Books & Reading    6. History - General History    7. Jewish - General    8. Jewish Sociology    9. Yiddish    10. History / Jewish   

Reviews (4)

A must-have for tobacco card enthuiasts!!
This comprehensive and superbly organized work is richly supplemented with numerous color and B/W photographs.A brief and informative history about various tobacco products/inserts and manufactures is provided.The book is organized principally into two units:N-series for 19th century cards (N1-N694) and T-series for 20th century cards (T1-T177).Each entry includes a brief description of the set and card appearance (front and back).The overwhelming majority of entries include an actual size photograph of a representative card (front and back) and a list of all cards in the set.Comments pertaining to card variations and prices are useful.The edge of each page is labeled with the set number to aid with rapid location of descriptions and card images.The work is peppered throughout with short vignettes and essays (published previously in various trade journals) by Dr. Terry Mitchell about specific sets or card themes.Although this is a soft cover book, the pages are printed on high grade gloss stock paper that tolerates repeated handling.Suprisingly, the book is neither overwhelming or boorish in its presentation.The brief descriptions and inclusion of images for virtually every set are effective strategies and make the book exceptionally user-friendly.No other work to date has done such a masterful job at capturing the variety of subjects, visual appeal, and historical allure of tobacco cards.This book is a must-have item for novice collectors and enthusiasts.

Beautifully done; Notcomplete for all collectors
A beautifully executed publication, however as a collector of Victorian Trade Cards, I was greatly dissapointed NOT to find ANY of the cards in my collection listed.I would have expected at least ONE to have beenreferred to, but the items in the book are mostly geared to the collectorof tobacco insert cards.If this is your thing, this is your book.Forgetit if you are more geared to Tradecard collecting

Informative Book about the History of Tobacco Cards
The book is great historical lesson.Reading about the history of the Tobacco cards has been very informative. The writers have dedicated many hours to thorough research of this topic. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Advertising    2. Advertising cards    3. Antiques & Collectibles    4. Antiques / Collectibles    5. Antiques/Collectibles    6. Catalogs    7. Popular Culture    8. Reference - Price Guides    9. Tobacco    10. Tobacco-Related    11. United States    12. Antiques & collectables: books, manuscripts, ephemera & printed matter   

Subjects:  1. Architecture    2. Calligraphy    3. General    4. Great Britain    5. History    6. Iconography (Fine Arts)    7. Illumination Of Books And Manuscripts    8. Illumination of books and manuscripts, Celtic    9. Ireland    10. Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)    11. Antiques & collectables: books, manuscripts, ephemera & printed matter   

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Beautiful & illuminating
I picked this up because of the book's physical beauty, but I've just read it in one sitting, couldn't put it down--a fascinating window into 20th-century British cultural history as well as book design. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Art & Art Instruction    2. Books    3. Design - Book    4. General    5. Graphic Design    6. Publishing Industry And Trade    7. Reference    8. Art / Design / Book   

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A good survey of the medium
I should begin by pointing out that the "book," as Kilgour defines it, is not only the codex. This includes tablets, scrolls and theelectronic book, as well.Read more

Subjects:  1. Books    2. Books & Reading    3. History    4. History Of Books And Printing    5. Language    6. Language Arts & Disciplines    7. Literary Criticism    8. Literature - Classics / Criticism    9. Publishing    10. Antiques & collectables: books, manuscripts, ephemera & printed matter    11. History, Other | Cultural History    12. Literary Criticism & Collections / Books & Reading    13. Printing, packaging & reprographic industry    14. Social history   

Reviews (4)

Darkness into Light
I was glad I had this book along with me when I went to see the real Book of Kells at the Trinity College Library in Dublin.The lines of tourists waiting to view this famous eighth century manuscript were about a quarter of a mile long, and the museum proctors were really hustling us through the area where a small sampling of pages were actually on view.
awesome pictures, horrible writing
I like how the author gives various images of the book of kells, but gets really confusing and goes all over the place while writing about it. I think a lot could be learned from this book, but the author crams so many examples into the work that it starts to get annoying. Ever line seems to have parenthesis around something and folio this or that. For that alone i give the book two stars, multiple examples are good, just not when you plague every line with one. It hardly gives the reader a chance to understand the first few.

"The most precious object in the western world"
Resting at Trinity College Dublin is one of the truly singular products of early European art.This is 'The Book of Kells,' an ornately illuminated rendition of the four gospels, rendered sometime in the Ninth Century.It has been both an influence and an inspiration since the time of its making, illustrating both the story it tells, and the subtle mind of symbolists who wove the story and the art together.Read more

Subjects:  1. Art & Art Instruction    2. Biography/Autobiography    3. Book of Kells    4. History - Medieval    5. Illumination Of Books And Manuscripts    6. Illumination of books and manu    7. Illumination of books and manuscripts, Celtic    8. Illustrations    9. Techniques - Calligraphy    10. Trinity College (Dublin, Irela    11. Antiques & collectables: books, manuscripts, ephemera & printed matter    12. Illustration    13. Religious subjects depicted in art   

Editorial Review

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Superb undertaking, despite some conceptual flaws
This is a marvelous volume that can be enjoyed by book and photography lovers alike. As an object in its own right it exhibits a level of refinement in conception and execution that has become rare in our age of mass-produced books. Of course, there are many specialist photobook publishers but they seem to focus exclusively on print quality to increase the perceived value of their publications, whilst neglecting the vital contribution of design in a book's overall appearance (and desirability). In the Phaidon-volume, the exquisitely judged rhythm of layout and typography complement the vivid reproductions of vintage photobook material into a very exciting whole.
Through the lens with print

Not as Beautiful as "Book of 101 Books," But Has More Info
I bought this book after reviews in the January 2005 New York Times and the December 2004 Guardian Unlimited.It defines a photobook as "a specific 'event'... in which a group of photographs is brought together between covers, each image placed so as to resonate with its fellows as the pages are turned, making the collective meaning more important than the images' individual meanings."The authors exclude books such as Edward Weston's 1947 "Fifty Photographs" which are "simply anthologies."
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Subjects:  1. Essays    2. History    3. Photo Essays    4. Photoessays & Documentaries    5. Photography    6. Antiques & collectables: books, manuscripts, ephemera & printed matter    7. Photographs: collections    8. Photography / General   

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A great read and very informative
I truly enjoyed this book. Not only is it chock full of valuable information, but it was also a truly entertaining read. Def. a must read for the serious collector and the serious bookseller.

Book Collecting
Ellis takes the reader deep into the rare and hard to find book sources to search out your books and to dust off those old books you haven't looked at in a while to see their true value. You may just find a gem of a book by using the author's suggestions on searching catalogs and used book stores

Full of tips and tricks
This is an excellent resource for any bookseller, book scout and / or dealer. In the everchanging world of the Internet, it is difficult for a published book to keep up with electronic media. I am hopefully the 3rd edition will have even more tips and tricks of the trade. I would like to see the author set up a blog. Might be helpful and useful. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Antiques & Collectibles    2. Antiques / Collectibles    3. Antiques/Collectibles    4. Books    5. General    6. Rare Books    7. Reference    8. Reference / General   

Subjects:  1. Art    2. Art & Art Instruction    3. General    4. History - General    5. Techniques - Calligraphy    6. Antiques & collectables: books, manuscripts, ephemera & printed matter    7. History of art: c 500 CE to c 1400    8. Lettering & calligraphy   

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of turk art
I'm student and I have very intrese for the ottoman art for islamic. the miniature of this kultur �s very nice. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. 1414-1492    2. 1414-1492.    3. Art    4. Art & Art Instruction    5. Freer Jami    6. General    7. Haft awrang    8. Illumination Of Books And Manuscripts    9. Illumination of books and manuscripts, Iranian    10. Illustrations    11. Jami,    12. Jåamåi,    13. Middle Eastern    14. Rare Books    15. Techniques - Calligraphy    16. Antiques & collectables: books, manuscripts, ephemera & printed matter    17. Art / Calligraphy    18. Illustration    19. Iran    20. Jami    21. Persian (Farsi)    22. Poetry & poets: classical, early & medieval    23. Poetry anthologies: classical, early & medieval