Everything you need to know about starting an art collection.

Collecting Cars for Fun & Profit is written for those car collectors, both existing and future who have concerns over the safety of their investments.The authors have demystified much of the Collector Car market with dedicated research and investigation. Addressing the core fear of many new as well as seasoned car collectors, the authors have introduced a logical and economically practical method of understanding and profiting in the Collector Car world. The book examines why Collector Cars can be considered valid investments, how Collector Cars compare to other investments, why Collector Car values are stable, why Collector Car values increase, and four ways to profit from Collector Car ownership.Whether your love is British Sports Cars, American Muscle, Model Ts or True Classics, understanding the different trends in each of these categories of cars can be critical to your sense of success in the hobby. Vehicles are tracked on historical price performance and future projections are illustrated to the year 2009.

The meat of this reference for amateur and professional book collectors is a list of thousands of books with suggested prices for the first editions, which can also be used to price later editions. Other sections suggest what books to collect, where to buy them, what to look for, and the fundamentals of building and maintaining a collection. Also useful for book dealers and librarians. Updated from previous editions, the frequency of which is not noted. No general index, but most of the sections are alphabetical. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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Used by most book dealers and serious collectors in the country, this guide explains how to identify first editions of books and covers a wide range of subjects, including Americana, early printed books, literature, mysteries, science fiction, children's books, natural history, photography, and travel.