"THE CATALOGUE OF AMERICAN COLLECTIBLES covers the range of the most common collectibles from advertising and packaging, through toys and dolls, music, china, glass, plastic and everyday domestic items to commemorative items from all areas of life, including entertainment, politics, and sport. Beautifully illustrated with color photography, each of these areas is fully explored, with illustrations of the most likely finds, and the occasional rarity that the lucky buyer may stumble upon." THis book has 176 pages and is profusely illustrated.

This is the first all-color book devoted to collecting the toy soldiers and figures that were sold in the Five-and-Dime stores. Over 650 photographs, showing in excess of three thousand toy figures, are arranged in thematic style and cover military and non-military toys. Complete with price guide, terminology, index, and over 60 manufacturers products. Thematic/category chapters make it easy for experienced and new collectors to easily locate figures.

Provides information, photographs, and price ranges for more than 2,000 American collectible and antique items.

An exhaustive compilation of all original catalog material from major American furniture manufacturers of the 1880s and 1890s. This is an important resource for identifying makers and understanding the range of their work. Included is furniture for the dining room, parlors, library, bedroom and office. Over 2000 illustrations and a price guide are included.

Lists models, body styles, and original factory prices for every model year a car was manufactured plus value listings for collectors.

"Mantle’s life story has been told many times, but it’s never received as loving a treatment as this one." Booklist, Starred Review Mickey Mantle is one of baseball’s all-time greats. Playing for the New York Yankees for his entire professional career, Mantle was named to the All-Star team for 11 consecutive seasons, won three MVP awards, and was a seven-time World Series champion. He quickly became an icon who achieved hero status even while playing through injuries for most of his career. In Mantle: The Best There Ever Was, Tony Castro makes the impassioned argument that Mickey Mantle truly was the greatest ballplayer of all time. Acclaimed by the New York Times as the definitive biographer of baseball’s fabled number 7, Castro shares many of his personal conversations with Mantle, demystifying the legend and revealing intimate, never-before-published details from Mantle’s personal life. In addition, Castro offers illuminating new insights into Mantle’s extraordinary career, including the head-turning conclusion based on the evolution of analytics that the beloved Yankee switch-hitting slugger may ultimately win acclaim as having fulfilled the weighty expectation once placed on him: being even greater than Babe Ruth. Drawing from hundreds of interviews with ex-teammates, friends, and family, Castro masterfully blends Mantle’s public and private selves to present a fully rounded portrait of this complex, misunderstood national hero.