Books, Home & Garden, Antiques & Collectibles, Postcards

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Benjamin H. Penniston
The Golden Age of Postcards: Early 1900s Identification & Values (Identification & Values (Collector Books))
by Collector Books (Paperback)

Mary Evans Seeley
Season's Greetings from the White House
by Presidential Christmas (Hardcover)

Martin Parr
Boring Postcards USA
by Phaidon Press (Hardcover)

The Devil in Design: The Krampus Postcards
by Fantagraphics Books (Paperback)

A collection of vintage Christmas cards for very bad little girls and boys. The Devil in Design is a fascinating, full-color compendium of extremely rare, late 19th and early 20th-century Krampus postcards culled from key postcard collections from around the world. Lavishly illustrated with over a 150 striking and stylized full-page examples, the book also includes a short introduction tracing the character's origin and its overwhelming popularity throughout Europe. In the Christmas traditions of Europe, the Krampus is Saint Nicholas's dark servant—a hairy, horned, supernatural beast whose pointed ears and long slithering tongue gave misbehavers the creeps! Whereas Saint Nicholas would reward children who had been good all year with treats, those that had been disobedient were paid a visit by the Krampus. The Krampus terrorized the bad until they promised to be good. Some he'd spank; others he'd whip, while others he'd shackle, stuff into his large wooden basket, and ...

Martin Parr: Parrworld
by Aperture (Hardcover) (Release Date: 2008-08-01)

Martin Parr's vast collections of photography books and postcards are world-renowned. Unbeknownst to many, he is also an obsessive collector of photographic and themed objects. In Parrworld: Objects and Postcards, a luscious two-volume set, his affinity for focused accumulation is presented with appropriate thoroughness, and with typical Parrian humor. Some of the items in the first volume, Objects, have already achieved notoriety--for instance, the wrist watches featuring Saddam Hussein's visage. Others mythologize well-known figures such as Lenin and the Spice Girls. Then there is the kitsch--from wallpaper to trays and objects commemorating Sputnik, Charles and Di's wedding and 9/11. While Objects is the first publication to document Parr's 25-plus years of such collecting, Postcards is the "last word" on an extraordinary collection of over 20,000 cards. Presented in album format, it is a highly entertaining yet serious study of postcard history, and includes early cards that ...

Eckhart Tolle
The Power of Now: 50 Inspiration Cards
by New World Library (Cards)

For admirers of The Power of Now, Eckhart Tolle’s wisdom now comes in a highly accessible form — an elegant boxed set of color cards. Each inspirational card expresses a quotation from the book on one side and art on the other to aid busy people with their daily meditations. Topics covered include discovering portals to the now, rising above thought, transforming suffering into peace, and creating enlightened relationships. “A reminder to be truly present.... It can transform your thinking. The result? More joy, right now.” — O: The Oprah Magazine

Diane C. Arkins
Halloween: Romantic Art and Customs of Yesteryear Postcard Book
by Pelican Publishing Company (Cards)

Taken from the book of the same title is a selection of the images of Halloween as celebrated in the early twentieth century, when it was a romantic holiday, a time for soothsaying traditions in love and luck. The years from 1900 to 1918 are considered the 'Golden Age of Postcards' -- a time when lavishly designed and printed cards were exchanged at every available occasion. Halloween cards were extremely popular, full of all the vivid imagery of the occasion, and are highly sought-after collector's items today. These beautifully illustrated postcards capture the essence of the romantic art and customs of yesteryear and are a delightful commemoration of America's fastest-growing holiday: Halloween.

J. L. Mashburn
The Artist-Signed Postcard Price Guide: A Comprehensive Reference
by Colonial House Pr (Hardcover)

This book is specifically for collectors and dealers of postcards who are only interested in artist type or artist-signed card.

Stuart P. Boehmig
Downtown Pittsburgh (PA) (Postcards of America)
by Arcadia Publishing (Paperback) (Release Date: 2007-10-01)

From westward migration to the Industrial Revolution, downtown Pittsburgh has been at the center of change and progress for centuries. These images illustrate the people, the events, and the everyday scenes that make up downtown Pittsburgh's story.

Todd E. Alden
Real Photo Postcards: Unbelievable Images from the Collection of Harvey Tulcensky
by Princeton Architectural Press (Paperback)

It may be hard to believe, but there actually was a time when the postcard image was not a cliché. To reach it, you'll have to set your clock back to the end of the nineteenth century, when an Act of Congress allowed Americans to mail a card for just one cent. A few years later, Kodak introduced an easy-to-use and affordable folding camera that put postcard power into the hands of ordinary citizens, setting off a craze. Real Photo Postcards is a collection of the most outlandish and idiosyncratic, beautiful and even occasionally bizarre images of this early postcard period. Painstakingly assembled from the collection of Harvey Tulcensky, one of the world's most avid collectors of these original postcards, Real Photo Postcards includes images of natural phenomena (floods, storms, fires), Main Street America, rural life, political parades, and wacky "exaggeration" cards (such as a photographically manipulated giant rabbit!). Together these cards show an oddly personal and ...

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