Kovels' Antiques & Collectibles Price List 1999 : The Best Selling Price Guide in America [Paperback]

Ralph Kovel (Author), Terry Kovel (Author), Terry H. Kovel (Author)

Book Description

Series: Kovels' Antiques and Collectibles Price List | Publication Date: October 6, 1998

The Best-Selling Price Guide in America!

Comprehensive and Up-To-Date
All new appraiser-approved prices (not estimates)
Over 400 photographs in black & white and color, plus hundreds of factory marks and identifying logos
Special full-color report on emerging markets in collectibles
Easy-to-use--completely indexed and cross-referenced
Handy seven-inch ruler (inside front cover) for on-the-spot measuring

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

This exhaustive price guide, put together by antiques experts Ralph and Terry Kovel, has something for everybody, from Regency sideboards to Aladdin lunchboxes. The Kovels are the "first couple" of collecting, with 75 books, a syndicated weekly newspaper column, and a monthly column in House Beautiful to their credit. The 1999 price list is a thoroughly researched compilation of the current asking prices for more than 50,000 items. The pictures are helpful, the descriptions are clear, and the categories are useful, for the most part. Occasionally, however, persistence is necessary to locate an item: fruit labels aren't under labels or ephemera, but can be found under advertising. With that in mind, know that once you begin learning about Dick Tracy memorabilia, you may wonder about something else, and suddenly an hour has flown by while you read about Batman and you haven't even made it to the first sale yet. But once there, with Kovels' in hand, you will be more than well equipped to find the bargain that is hiding under everyone else's nose. --Christie Truly

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The Best-Selling Price Guide in America!

Comprehensive and Up-To-Date
All new appraiser-approved prices (not estimates)
Over 400 photographs in black & white and color, plus hundreds of factory marks and identifying logos
Special full-color report on emerging markets in collectibles
Easy-to-use--completely indexed and cross-referenced
Handy seven-inch ruler (inside front cover) for on-the-spot measuring

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Product Details

• Paperback: 896 pages
• Publisher: Three Rivers Press; 15th Revised edition edition (October 6, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0609803441
• ISBN-13: 978-0609803448
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 5.3 x 2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,721,298 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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30 of 31 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A good resource for the experienced collector, March 19, 2000

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This review is from: Kovels' Antiques & Collectibles Price List 1999 : The Best Selling Price Guide in America (Paperback)

I love the Kovels, they write exhaustively, and are incredibly knowledgeable. However I do find the layout of this book to be somewhat confusing. It's chock-full of good info, but needs better organization. Breaking things into topics and then alpahbetizing would work well, and make the book that much more useful. But for the seasoned collector their books are hard to do without.