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Author
Publisher
Motorbooks, an imprint of The Quarto Group
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Satisfy your dream collector-car desires with this one-stop reference for starting or expanding your collection beyond traditional classics and muscle cars. Focusing on the interests and needs of Generation X and Millennial car collectors, The NextGen Guide to Car Collecting offers a concise history of car collecting to present day, guidance on car buying and living the car-collector life, and an overview of collector cars with a focus on cars built...
Author
Publisher
Andrew McMeel Publishing
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Four preteens receive mysterious enamel pins that grant them superpowers. Together, they must put aside their differences and embark on an epic journey to find the mysterious pinmaker, discover the truth behind the new theme park, and of course, trade pins--all while learning how to navigate their new superhuman skills. This is an all-new illustrated adventure series that's about magic, friendship, queer identity, collecting, and tons of fun!
Author
Publisher
Mango Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"In this full-color book, dive into the mountain of Simpsons merchandise that the '90s (and beyond) blasted into toy aisles everywhere : comics, video games, toys, books, clothing, cookie jars, toilet brushes, things you remember, the lost toys that you don't, and maybe even some things we don't want to remember. You will find that these bizarre products can actually help trace the show's developments as well as its culture impact. The Simpsons knew...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The people who made, saved, and sometimes destroyed medieval manuscripts, over a thousand years of history, from the acclaimed author of Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts The Manuscripts Club tells of twelve men and women, from the eleventh century to the twentieth, who all share an overwhelming obsession with illuminated manuscripts. The saint, the patron, the bookseller, the artist, the antiquary, the collector, the rabbi, the savant, the librarian,...
7) Safeguarding history: trailblazing adventures inside the worlds of collecting and forging history
Author
Publisher
Whitman Publishing, LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"An adventure story -- and the inside story -- of the world's most successful dealer in histroical letters and documents, as well as the leading expert in handwriting forgery detecton. Kenneth Rendell has traveled the world, tracking down, buying, and selling the most significant, iconic historical letters and documents from the Renaissance to the present day. Safeguarding History chronicles his adventures collecting and dealing in rare coins at age...
Author
Publisher
Godine
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A deeply evocative portrait of Isabella Stewart Gardner, a daring visionary who created an inimitable legacy in American art and transformed the city of Boston itself. By the time Isabella Stewart Gardner opened her Italian palazzo-style home as a museum in 1903 to showcase her collection of old masters, antiques, and objects d'art, she was already well-known for scandalizing Boston's polite society. But when Isabella first arrives in Boston in 1861,...
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