This book is for all people using, owning, or collecting fountain pens and their matching pencils. It introduces the beginning pen collector to the hobby and answers questions asked by advanced pen collectors about the earliest and rarest pens. With over 1,000 fountain pens illustrated in full color, it will identify pens and provide the opportunity to examine many rare pens that were produced.
The examples represent the whole range of the history and production of fountain pens, from the earliest to the present, and from the most common to the rarest.
L.E. Waterman, Parker, Swan, Sheaffer,...

Travel to ancient cemeteries of the U.S. and France to meet night spirits. Captured digitally at sundown, sun up, and by the light of the full moon, their beauty and eeriness is astounding. Shown are full vaporous apparitions with ghost stories connected with each of the featured cemeteries helping to explain who the ghosts are and why they appear hundreds of years after they were buried. You will be drawn into each photograph as though you were standing there - seeing what the photographer saw and was feeling when the photograph was taken. Thousands of ghost hunters go out looking for...

Next to Christmas, more money is spent on Halloween decorations and novelties than on any other holiday. This wonderful book has been credited with inspiring the Halloween collecting craze, giving its devotees a chance to celebrate the holiday all year round In addition to color photography and a brand new price guide, there are also many fascinating insights into Halloween. Most people are familiar with the symbols--ghosts, Jack-O'-Lanterns, witches, bats, skeletons, and black cats--but few know about Halloween's past. Why does it exist? What is the origin of trick-or-treating? Why does it...

Seeing fluorescent minerals up close for the first time is an exciting experience. The colors are so pure and the glow is so seemingly unnatural, that it is hard to believe they are natural rocks. Hundreds of glowing minerals are shown, including Aragonite, Celestine, Feldspar, Microcline, Picropharmacolite, Quartz, Spinel, Smithsonite, plus many more. But don't let the hard-to-pronounce names keep you away. Over 870 beautiful color photographs illustrate how fluorescent minerals look under UV light and in daylight, making this an invaluable field guide. Here are minerals from the United...

Extraordinary cigarette lighters can be found in the strangest of places--in a garage sale, at a swap meet, perhaps even in your own basement. This convenient, revised and updated handheld guide introduces a history of lighters through a comprehensive, alphabetical presentation of styles, organized according to company name and dating from the late 1800s through the 1980s.Well-known makers such as Dunhill, Ronson, Evans, Scripto, and Zippo are included, as well as unusual lighters from lesser known companies. Never before has a book shown such variety of lighters with this much detail and...