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The Postcard Price Guide, 3rd Edition, A Comprehensive Reference

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If you are interested in collecting artist-signed, fantasy, and greetings-type postcards, as is the author of this book, you will find more than 350 pages of this book devoted to your hobby. If you are interested in collecting postcards showing town views, real photo, and roadside America -- a much more popular hobby, as shown by the major auction websites -- you will find only about 30 pages devoted to your hobby. There is an 8-page introduction useful for all collectors.

Between my mother and I, we've been collecting postcards for over 40 years (we also sell them on Ebay). Mashburn's excellent reference is the first book we recommend to people who ask us for a reference on postcard collecting. It is organized well, filled with important history and information, and has thousands of pictures and prices to guide the new and the seasoned collector. If you only buy one book about postcards, this is the one to buy.

This is a wonderful reference source and price guide for postcard collectors. It is packed full of postcard information compiled from experienced dealers and collectors.

As a beginning postcard collector, you will need to fully study this guide and understand the way the material is categorized before you use it at any PC Collector Shows & Auctions. It is not always user friendly ~ it may require a considerably amount time of hunting through several of the book's categories before you find your information. Same goes for matching the photos displayed on the book's page and finding it's related information in the text!

Keep your previous J. L. Mashburn Postcard Price Guides. This Third Edition of THE POSTCARD PRICE GUIDE contains all new photos and does not repeat the photos from the previous additions.

I recommend that you purchase J. L. Mashburn's Third Edition of THE POSTCARD PRICE GUIDE. It is worth the investment!

I use this book frequently and, by adding my own "tabs" and my own cross reference table, have made it much easier to use. There are many important names in the work itself that are not shown in the index. As a result I am now working on compiling my own index to this book.

As a brand-new postcard collector, I needed a reference book which is complete and interesting. Mashburn's catalog of collectible postcards is as fun as reading an old Sears catalog and as informative as an encyclopedia. The author should have offered better clarification of certain postcard types, such as "linens" (what do they feel like?) and "real photos" (are they originals without any reproductions?). Mashburn should have kept the definitions more explicit and basic for beginners, but this is a trap into which all experts fall. Overall, this is a great intro to collecting postcards. Anyone have a postmarked Titanic card which they'll sell to me for cheap?