The Best Antiques & Collectibles Books 2024

1. Warman's Field Guides Barbie Doll: Values & Identification: Warman's Barbie Doll Field Guide : Values and Identification (Edition 2) (Paperback)

This fun, affordable and fact-filled guide allows you to bask in the beauty of Barbie, while providing details to help you identify and assess the value of the dolls in your collection, or those you dream about owning. The perfect size to use at shops, garage sales, and during online auctions, this guide contains fashion sets and nearly 50 years of the most valuable and collectible Barbie dolls.

Warman's Barbie Doll Field Guide: Values and Identification (Warman's Field Guide)

2. American Postcard Cactuses Pack of 5

When the ancient vicar of Dibley dies, the parishioners of the sleepy English town are shocked to learn that their new vicar is not "a bloke with a beard" but "a bird with a bob cut" named Geraldine. Dawn French (Four Weddings and a Funeral) stars in this award-winning British comedy, the most popular comedy show in England in 1999. 3 hours 27 min. on 2 cassettes.

American Postcard Cactuses Pack of 5

3. Statehood Quarters #2

Whitman Coin Products, 2002, ISBN # 1582381119

With over 100 million Americans collecting the Statehood Quarters, our Statehood Quarters Folders have never been more popular. Statehood Volume 1:2000-2001 has sold more than 1.6 million copies to date! Volume 2 is the next in this classic Statehood folder series and features slots for one quarter from each the Philadelphia and the Denver mints, for the 20 states with commemorative Statehood quarters to be released from 2002-2005.

4. Timeless Toys : Classic Toys and the Playmakers Who Created Them

Slinky(, LEGO(, Tonka( trucks, Monopoly(, Big Wheel(, and Barbie*--all of these toys and many more are featured in this fascinating tome, along with the toys' histories, insider profiles, and rare interviews with industry icons.

'Toyland, Toyland / Little girl and boy land / Childhood's joyland / Mystic, merry Joyland! Once you pass its borders / You can ne'er return again.' Actually, here's your chance: In Timeless Toys: Classic Toys and the Playmakers Who Created Them, Tim Walsh provides a fascinating look at our collective toy chest." -Washingtonpost.com More about Timeless Toys The book Why Didn't I Think of That! includes the passage "If a toy has magic, when people see it they say, 'Oooh! What is that?' . . . It appeals to the kid in everybody." That same kind of magic captures "the kid in everybody" when they pick up Timeless Toys: Classic Toys and the Playmakers Who Created Them. Timeless Toys represents one of the finest documentaries and displays of modern toys ever written. Author Tim Walsh, a successful toy inventor himself, reveals a world of commerce, toys, and wonder that is equally fun, fascinating, and nostalgic. Readers of every age and background will find it impossible to pick up this book, turn a few pages, and not become spellbound by its insightful stories and the personal memories that the text and 420 brilliantly colored photographs bring forth. Slinky, Lego, Tonka trucks, Monopoly, Big Wheel, Frisbee, Hula Hoop, Super Ball, Scrabble, Barbie, Radio Flyer Wagons: All of these and many, many more are featured in this fascinating tome, along with the toys' histories, insider profiles, and rare interviews with toy industry icons. It's simply magic! Vote for your favorite toy and be part of VH1's "I Love Toys," a show currently in production, set to air next spring. It will be a five-hour toyathon on the top 100 toys of all time. Click here to vote for your favorite toy of all time!

5. O'Brien's Collecting Toy Cars & Trucks: O'Brien's Collecting Toy Cars & Trucks : Identification and Value Guide (Edition 4) (Paperback)

Built tough enough to withstand the demands of any collector, this indispensable identification and price guide has been completely updated. The trusted name in collecting toy cars and trucks provides readers with over 300 manufacturers organized alphabetically, and more than 15,000 listings. Built tough enough to withstand the demands of any collector, this indispensable identification and price guide, now in the 4th edition, has been completely updated. The trusted name in collecting toy cars and trucks provides readers with over 300 manufacturers organized alphabetically, and more than 15,000 listings - some not listed anywhere else - priced in up to three grades of condition! Contains pressed steel, die-cast, slush-molded, promotional models, rubber toys, Japanese tin, and tin litho. With nearly 45,000 current market prices for Buddy L, Dinky, Corgi, Keystone, Johnny Lightening, Marx, Auburn Rubber, Tonka, Structo, Nylint, Matchbox, Hot Wheels, Tootsie Toy, Wyandotte, and Ertl, enthusiasts are sure to find a value for every toy in their collection.

Built tough enough to withstand the demands of any collector, this indispensable identification and price guide, now in the 4th edition, has been completely updated. The trusted name in collecting toy cars and trucks provides readers with over 300 manufacturers organized alphabetically, and more than 15,000 listings - some not listed anywhere else - priced in up to three grades of condition Contains pressed steel, die-cast, slush-molded, promotional models, rubber toys, Japanese tin, and tin litho. With nearly 45,000 current market prices for Buddy L, Dinky, Corgi, Keystone, Johnny Lightening, Marx, Auburn Rubber, Tonka, Structo, Nylint, Matchbox, Hot Wheels, Tootsie Toy, Wyandotte, and Ertl, enthusiasts are sure to find a value for every toy in their collection.

6. Model Railroader Books: The DCC Guide (Paperback)

Digital Command Control (DCC) is the latest improvement in electrical operation of model trains, but it's so much more. DCC can help modelers take advantage of all the new features in modern model trains like realistic sound and smoother switching and running. This comprehensive, all-new volume helps modelers get the most out of DCC with diagrams and photos showing how DCC works - including wiring, installing and setting decoders in running equipment, and setting up throttle equipment. The DCC Guide presents an overview of the product lines available and helps modelers select the right system for their plans.

Digital Command Control (DCC) is the latest improvement in electrical operation of model trains, but it's so much more. DCC can help modelers take advantage of all the new features in modern model trains like realistic sound and smoother switching and running. This comprehensive, all-new volume helps modelers get the most out of DCC with diagrams and photos showing how DCC works - including wiring, installing and setting decoders in running equipment, and setting up throttle equipment. The DCC Guide presents an overview of the product lines available and helps modelers select the right system for their plans.

7. Greenberg's Guide to Lionel Trains: Greenberg's Guides to Lionel Trains Pocket Price Guide : 1901-2009 (Paperback)

The latest edition of the famous Greenberg's Guides for Lionel Trains has the data collectors need before buying, selling, or trading away any Lionel lay trains from their collections. This is the one handy pocket guide that lists everything Lionel from 1901 to 2008 and gives prices, trading frequency, and other invaluable reference info. A thoughtful preface explains production and market trends and offers helpful buying, selling, trading, and insuring hints. Long considered the standard guide for Lionel collectors, it's built on the expertise of longtime collectors and reviewers.

The latest edition of the famous Greenberg's Guides for Lionel Trains has the data collectors need before buying, selling, or trading away any Lionel lay trains from their collections. This is the one handy pocket guide that lists "everything Lionel" from 1901 to 2008 and gives prices, trading frequency, and other invaluable reference info. A thoughtful preface explains production and market trends and offers helpful buying, selling, trading, and insuring hints. Long considered the standard guide for Lionel collectors, it's built on the expertise of longtime collectors and reviewers.

8. Warman's 101 Greatest Baby Boomer Toys

Warmans 101 Greatest Baby Boomer Toys (Paperback) Discover your passion with collectibles & antiques. Collect your favorite items. Decorate with antique style. Experience the chase of finding antiques! Publisher: Krause Publications Pages: 208 Publication Date: 05 Sep, 2005

The kids of the 1960s are the collectors of today, and their toys are among the hottest items in the collecting world. Warman's 101 Greatest Baby Boomer Toys brings the past alive with historic details surrounding the creation and evolution of timeless childhood favorites of the 1950s, '60s and '70s. More than 150 detailed color photos accompany production history and background about the toy industry the year each toy appeared on store shelves. From Barbie, Mr. Potato Head and Rock' Em Sock'Em Robots to The Beatles Flip Your Wig game, Twister and Hot Wheels, this book offers unparalleled insight to the best Baby Boomer toys.

9. Standard Catalog of American Flyer

A bargain buy when first introduced as Chicago Flyer, American Flyer trains rose to premier toy train status in the last half of the 20th century, and maintain the second spot today! The companys claim to fame, the S gauge train, is supported by the wide gauge and prewar HO and O gauge trains, in collector popularity, and this one-of-a-kind guide covers all three groups in extensive detail. The most comprehensive overview of the American Flyer line, this book follows the winning format of the Standard Catalog line of toy train references. It is the only full-color guide on the subject, serving the needs of toy train collectors who rely on detailed color photos to accurately identify trains.

A bargain buy when first introduced as Chicago Flyer, American Flyer trains rose to premier toy train status in the last half of the 20th century, and maintain the second spot today The company's claim to fame, the S gauge train, is supported by the wide gauge and prewar HO and O gauge trains, in collector popularity, and this one-of-a-kind guide covers all three groups in extensive detail.The most comprehensive overview of the American Flyer line, this book follows the winning format of the Standard Catalog line of toy train reference. It is the only full-color guide on the subject, serving the needs of toy train collectors who rely on detailed color photos to accurately identify trains.

10. Pokemon: Collector Handbook and Price Guide (Paperback) by Checker Bee Publishing (Editor)

Pokemon Collector's Value Guide: Secondary Market Price Guide and Collector Handbook

Paperback, CheckerBee Publishing, 1999, ISBN # 188891467X