An easily understandable guide to key skills for bushcrafters, campers, outdoors lovers, and anyone interested in wilderness living.

Once again, our friend Mr. Aikins is eager to be our tour guide through the colorful landscapes of childrens' lunch boxes. As the companion to "Metal ...

From a six-pound passport camera to the world's smallest SLR, you'll find a curious collection of cameras, with the photos to prove that film still lives.

The up-to-date guide to the collectables market no dealer, collector or auctioneer should be without. 4,000+ objects in full color, with detailed description and price range. Shows you how to spot that rare example that may be worth twenty times more than another piece.

The Overstreet Grading Guide provides you with all the basics about grading comics by fully explaining and copiously illustrating the 10-point grading scale.

Static and Hardware cover. Packed with new prices, new feature articles, new additions to the Overstreet Hall of Fame, new market reports and more.

Daredevil / Echo cover. Packed with new prices, new feature articles, new additions to the Overstreet Hall of Fame, new market reports and more.

Features collectible household, barn, and railroad lanterns from Adlake, Dietz, and Embury, and others.

Catalog illustrations and hundreds of full color photographs and the history of the bicycle -- a necessary addition to any bike-lover's library!

One in a series of books from Schiffer Publishing documenting fashion trends in America, this is an invaluable resource for fashion designers looking to revive and rework retro styles, for costume designers working to recreate an era, and for collectors and historians wanting to document vintage clothing.

Reflecting the trends of wartime, with an emphasis on the ever-changing roles of women in society, this book illustrates the movement towards more masculine styles and patriotic fashions and colors, while still representing the tailored and restrictive styles that had once dominated the lady's closet.

Fashionable Clothing from the Sears Catalogs: Early 1950s focuses on wearable, collectible vintage clothing and accessories. The Sears catalogs provide the basis for a comprehensive evaluation of the fashions of this period.

Meet the book that defined fashion for generations of Americans in the twentieth century-the Sears Catalog. European couture designs were beautiful in fashion magazines but the average person with an average income shopped for clothing in department stores.

Enjoy a parade as an era marches by, marking an end of innocence and the dawn of psychedelic style. One in a series of books from Schiffer Publishing documenting fashion trends in America.

These styles will ring a bell not only with America's baby-boomers, but also with current fashion trend watchers. Today's interest in retro fashions makes this book as current as it would have been more than fifty years ago, but the quality is much better.

The gamut of trends and fashions during the late 1970s are explored in this priceless pictorial review. Pages from the Sears catalogs open for a trip back in time to the disco era, the "me decade," the bundled-up fashions of the oil embargo, and the buckled-down cowboy look of the new macho man.

The ongoing Sears catalog series continues with a look at the mid-1980s. Nearly 400 color images portray the fashions and distinctive styles worn during this time.

Homes in a Box - Modern Homes from Sears Roebuck is a facsimile reproduction of the Sears Modern Homes catalog. It gives a nostalgic look at the more than one hundred home kits sold by Sears Roebuck in the early 1900s.

Reprint of Our Special Catalog for Home Builders, Sears, Roebuck and Co., 1910. All across America during the great building boom of the early 20th ce...

For almost 20 years, Sears, Roebuck and Company purveyed the materials for complete prefabricated houses, providing thousands of Americans with attrac...

Featuring machines right up through more recently collectible models of the 1970s and 1980s, The Field Guide to Classic Farm Tractors, Expanded Editio...

The Harley-Davidson Story: Tales from the Archives is a fascinating, visually driven overview of the motor company's rich story, created in cooperatio...

How to Restore Farmall Tractors, the only Farmall restoration guide, is back in print and packed with hundreds of helpful step-by-step photographs, pr...

With their softened camouflage, sun-faded stencils, and well-worn insignia patches, this collection of more than 100 iconic WWII American military jackets will wow even the most hardcore connoisseurs and collectors.

Postcard collecting has been a popular American pastime since the hobby's Golden Age more than a hundred years ago. For today's collector, postcards o...

With its initial publication in 1983, A Guide to the Makers of American Wooden Planes profoundly transformed the emphasis and direction of tool collec...

In 1937, the first SPAM product came off the production line. Since then, it has won the hearts of soldiers, celebrities, chefs, presidents, kids, and...

The Hand Tool on the Cutting Edge of History In the hands of lumberjacks, homesteaders, farmers, and foresters, the axe forged a path to a new way of ...

Advertisers in the nineteenth and early twentieth century pushed the boundaries of printing, manipulated language, inspired a new form of art and expl...

A reprint of the publication Catalogs Excerpts of the General Catalog of Buffalo Forge 1892, Illustrated Catalog of the Keystone Portable Forges, Cham...