A practical reference to collecting autographs that provides information on signatures of numerous personalities as well as tips on the assembly and care of a collection

Autographs: A Collector's Guide

PATTERSON, Jerry E.

CROWN PUB.

A fascinating book about some of the curious items collectors have acquired. It includes a survey of many treasures bought and sold throughout history including the prices. Jacket spine slightly faded with wrinkling along bottom edge of back cover. xiv, 178 pages. cloth, dust jacket.. large 8vo..

A collector's guide to relics & memorabilia

Crown, Publishers

Discusses the antiques of many sports including hunting, fishing, baseball, football, tennis, and hockey.  250 photos of equipment, relics, and memorabilia are shown as well as autographs and photographs.

Antiques of sport

Crown Publishers, Inc.

The City of New York: A history illustrated from the collections of the Museum of the City of New York

History

Americas

Harry N. Abrams

Discusses the Vanderbilt family and how they established their fortunes, examining individual personalities and the glittering mansions in which family members led their fabled lives.

The Vanderbilts

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

H.N. Abrams

The gilded age was one of unrivalled opulence, an age of castles transported from Europe, four-hundred-foot yachts, and the great American family fortunes. Society was decorous, strict, and entirely stratified. Above all, it had but one leader, Mrs. Astor. It was she whom with the help of her friend and social confidant Ward McAllister, decided who was, and who was not, a member of Society-- a group limited to four hundred by the confines of the Astor mansion's stately ballroom. Four years the press clamored to know who the Four Hundred were, who comprised the inner sanctum of Gilded Age Society? Mrs. Astor never in her life spoke with a journalist, but Ward McAllister often did. Famous for his flippant remarks and unwavering loyalty to Mrs. Astor and Society, he leaked the list to the New York Times in 1892. Instantly the term, "The Four Hundred," entered the national vocabulary, as a way to describe New York's hereditary elite: the Vanderbilts, the Van Rensselaers, the Goelets, the Stuyvesant Fish, the Chanlers.... Jerry E. Patterson, social historian and widely published author, brings the names on McAllister's list to life. Describing their lineage, wealth, exploits, and amusements, Patterson paints a vivid and remarkably human portrait of Gilded Age Society at its peak. In telling the story of the First Four Hundred, Patterson details the composition and lore of New York Society from the time the early Dutch settlers first broke bread through the Gilded Age and into the early part of the twentieth century. This telling history of New York's very rich is as much a history of the city itself as it is of social customs, dynamics, idiosyncrasies, and private architecture.

First Four Hundred : New York and the Gilded Age

Arts & Photography

Photography & Video

Rizzoli

The Smithsonian Illustrated Library of Antiques. dw, lge fmt, 1979 illus

Porcelain

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Crafts & Hobbies

Cooper-Hewitt Museum

In The Vanderbilts, the familys astounding story is told in full: from the farmstead beginnings of the Commodore on Staten Island to the pinnacle of wealth, fame, and social standing achieved by the legendary Vanderbilt ladiesConsuelo, Alva, Grace, Gertrude, and Gloria. The text traces the commercial machinations that established their fortune and the Vanderbilt mania for house building that engaged some of Americas finest designers and architects.

Blackstone Pub

Cornelius Vanderbilt parlayed a $100.00 investment into the largest private transportation company in the world while creating an American dynasty in New York, Newport, Vermont and Ashville, North Carolina

Audio Bookshelf

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Books by PATTERSON, Jerry E.

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Autographs: A Collector's Guide

A collector's guide to relics & memorabilia

Antiques of sport

The City of New York: A history illustrated from the collections of the Museum of the City of New York

The Vanderbilts

The City of New York: A history illustrated from the collections of the Museum of the City of New York

First Four Hundred : New York and the Gilded Age

Porcelain

The Vanderbilts

The Vanderbilts