It was a hard choice between the Downs book and the Montgomery book for the list. Federal furniture is still “period” furniture and Charlie Montgomery’s book is amazing. Another book I’d add is also from Winterthur, Benno Foreman’s book “American Seating Furniture: 1630 – 1730″. The scholarship in the three Winterthur books is second to none.

While I have been out of the antiquarian book business for quite some time, I may just toss a list here on the blog of some books for sale that are worthy of owning.

Some books gain in value but most never achieve a price level much higher than their orginal issue price. Books like “The Work of Many Hands” are few and far between. Even the first editions of both the Downs and Montgomery books have dramatically dropped in price because of the Schiffer reprint. This is in spite of the fact that the quality of the photographs is higher in the first edition.

To kick off the list of books for sale, I have a first edition of Montgomery’s “American Furniture: The Federal Period” that is in near fine condition (that’s just a little less than straight from the publisher) in a chipped dust wrapper. It is autographed by Charles Montgomery. The price is $375.00 plus shipping. I’ll see what other books I can scrounge up and we’ll get a list on the web soon.

I would add that your list is great for period (Queen Anne and Chippendale) furniture. If you move to Federal pieces I would add American Furniture the Federal Period by Charles Montgomery and The Furniture Masterworks of John and Thomas Seymour by Robert D. Mussey Jr.

In addition, some of these books are rather expensive. I picked up the Master Craftsman book a long time back and it’s now worth considerably more. So these books aren’t necessarily only an expediture, there is a potential for profit other than information learned.

Chuck thanks for the Father’s Day mention. This year was exceedingly hard.

Keep Blogging.
Glen