Reference Books & Related Artifacts & Collectibles

ARTIFACT: This is a hardcover copy of "Encyclopedia of Continental Army Units: Battalions, Regiments, and Independent Corps" with its original dust jacket. The book outlines the groups that formed the military used by the original Thirteen...

ARTIFACT: This is a paperback copy of "Japanese Rifles of World War II" by Duncan O. McCollum. This reference contains many tables and photographs to help identify rifles of World War II, and has a short history of Japan and its firearms...

ARTIFACT: Vietnam War era 1974 Jane's Pocket Book of Modern Tanks and Armored Fighting Vehicles Edited by Christopher Foss. The book contains over 200 pages of photographs and model specifications. VINTAGE: Circa 1974 SIZE: Approximately 7-1/4" x...

ARTIFACT: Fourth Edition, 1974 Veteran and Vintage Aircraft compiled by Leslie Hunt. "The world's preserved aircraft ??? where they are ??? what they look like ??? who owns them". The book was published by The Garnstone Press Limited and...

ARTIFACT: This is a 1972 paperback copy of "The Firefox Book (hog dressing, log cabin building, mountain crafts and foods, planting by the signs, snake lore, hunting tales, faith healing, moonshining, and other affairs of plain living)" by...

ARTIFACT: This is a 1979 paperback copy of "Firefox 5: Ironmaking, Blacksmithing, Flintlock Rifles, Bear Hunting, and Other Affairs of Plain Living" by Eliot Wigginton. The book was written by Wigginton, a teacher who moved to the Appalachian...

ARTIFACT: Great old "pocket" reference guide to Militaria by Lyle Publications. The softcover, 254 page book is filled with hundreds of images with descriptions and value amounts. It was compiled by Anthony Curtis, published in 1983, and...

ARTIFACT: Rare 1974 privately printed Marden Family Genealogy Copy #369, signed by the author ??? Sylvia Fitts Getchell. The hardcover book reads: "MARDEN FAMILY GENEALOGY GETCHELL" on the binding and the inside front cover shows the author's signature...

ARTIFACT: This is a hardcover copy of Detlev Niemann's "Price Guide: Orders and Decorations Germany, 1871-1945 (Bewertungs-Katalog: Orden und Ehrenzeichen Deutschland)", Second Edition (subtitle: Orders, Decorations, Award Documents, Miniatures and Cases...

ARTIFACT: This is a 1963 copy of the Victoria and Albert Museum "Swords and Daggers" by John Hayward. The book covers swords and daggers in the Museum's collection, treated as weapons as well as part of the masculine attire, from the very end...

ARTIFACT: This is a 1965 Standard & Poor's stock guide published for a Merrill Lynch broker in New York City. It has an index of tables in front and the broker's stamp is on the front cover. VINTAGE: Circa 1965. SIZE: 256 pages; approximately...

ARTIFACT: 1946 ??? 1947 Jane's Fighting Ships, large, just-post WWII edition. This edition was published by the "United States of America and Canada by the MacMillan Company in New York and by Sampson Low, Marston, & Co. LTD. in London". The book...