Treasure one of the greatest forms of pop art in America--the metal lunch box. This is undoubtedly the most comprehensive and colorful compilation ...

This wonderful book has become the standard pocket guide in the field. It is just what collectors need for quick and easy reference...and its newly...

Where the preceding two books of this pioneer series focused on the World War I German aviators featured on Sanke postcards, this final volume exam...

The Incredible Ball Point Pen tells the story of the ball point pen's painful development, its cacophonous launching, the public hysteria accompany...

From humble beginnings in the late 1800s, the popularity of cigarettes grew into the twentieth century, until they became far and away the favorite...

The Jewel Tea Company of Chicago, Illinois reached a national market for its household products through salesmen and mail order catalogs from 1901 ...

Judy Garland is a true Hollywood icon. A legend. Her remarkable 45-year career in show business began at the age of two, when she performed on stag...

During the period 1890-1910 the German Army of Kaiser Wilhelm II was ablaze in color, particularly the Garde and Cavalry regiments. In this superb ...

This extensive, two-volume set presents every recipient of the Knight?s Cross with Oakleaves, awarded during the Second World War, and presented pe...

Settlement and urbanization of the Canadian Northwest coincided with the greatest popularity of the postcard. Settlement, along with the building o...

The Lives of Colonial Objects is a sumptuously illustrated and highly readable book about things, and the stories that unfold when we start to inve...

Since its founding in the early 1950s, the Spanish porcelain firm Lladró has attracted a large collector market. This book identifies all known Lla...

The first of two volumes on the legendary P.08 Luger (Pistole Parabellum), this illustrated book presents the design, manufacturing, and developmen...

The second of two volumes on the legendary P.08 Luger (Pistole Parabellum), this illustrated book presents the design, manufacturing, and developme...

Includes stories people have told LaMotte about their search for meaning in sea glass. It also features poetry, quotations and artwork that transpo...

This new book presents over seven years of research into the history of the M-1 helmet during World War II, and provides the most comprehensive exa...

Gen. George S. Patton called it “the greatest battle implement ever devised.” The legendary .30-caliber M1 Garand semiautomatic rifle was the stand...

Dr Watson is called upon late at night by a female friend of his wife. Her husband has been absent for several days and, as he is an opium addict, ...

The Merry Wives of Windsor is a comedy by William Shakespeare first published in 1602

The Michelin® Man has been the subject of thousands of advertising and automobilia items around the world for over 100 years, many with exceptional...

"Milk glass" today is considered neither white nor entirely opaque, as illustrated by more than 450 photos in this book. Drawn from the extensive c...

Mirrors dating from Egypt's New Kingdom, circa 1300 B.C., through the Art Nouveau movement at the beginning of the twentieth century A.D. are arran...

This book is a complete history of the Italian Model 1891Carcano rifle and variants that served as Italy's standard service rifle in World War I an...