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From finding the right tools and materials to creating designs, The Everything(r) Crafts-Create Your Own Greeting Cards includes directions for more than twenty unique projects.For those who want to send personalized cards, The Everything(r) Crafts-Create Your Own Greeting Cards is packed full of creative projects and ideas. ... Read more

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Editor versus Author
Courtney Nolan is the EDITOR not the AUTHOR.All material is from the SAME publisher.Lots of publishers do this.It is another way to market books.

Mixed bag with some good points
Pluses: This book is decent for beginners because it has large photos accompanying each step of the process for a project in most cases.
Cons: I say "in most cases" because sometimes it assumed prior knowledge about how to do something and a few times I was hard pressed to figure out what the missing info was. (I'm new to cardmaking, so I need things spelled out!)
Pro: There was a great section up front on making various kinds of paper. I hadn't previously considered making my own, but the steps and instructions in the book make it easy enough for me to tackle
Con: While I appreciated the idea of the cards, and the techniques being used, the end results were kind of arty and felt a bit Stevie Nicks/New agey if you get my drift. Definitely an acquired taste. However, I will be happy to apply their techniques and tweak them to my own style.
Con: I didn't like the way they had all of the card "beauty shots" crammed into a few sections of the book (often far away from the actual instructions) and all of the rest in black & white and a burgundy color. Sometimes black & white how-to photos just don't work when you're trying to figure out where to put the turquoise versus the yellow paper (and it's not in the steps!). If you're going to spell stuff out for us, do it right!This was not obvious to me since the book's insides weren't available for preview and no one else had reviewed this book before I bought it.
**My main beef about this book, however, and also something that is not apparent to anyone given the author is Editor Courtney Nolan is that ALL--at least 85% it appears to me--of the projects also appear in the book Making Greeting Cards with Creative Materials by Maryjo McGraw. And in that book, which I also bought, the projects are shown in full color photos throughout. So save your money on this one and buy the Making Greeting Cards with Creative Materials instead!! ... Read more

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Baseball cards are America's hottest collectible. Yet, thousands of cards go down, not up, in price while others make only modest gains that fail to meet the owner's expectations. Follow the expert ratings of Paul Green and Kit Kiefer and find insights into the 100 best cards to own. ... Read more

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I wouldn't take their advice
A couple of the reccomendations:

Griffey's 89 Donruss over his 89 Upper Deck. At the time the book was written the Donruss sold for $4 and the Upper Deck for $12. The Donruss now goes for $12 and the Upper Deck for$150... and has been mentioned as possibly one of the best of the ModernCards.

81 Fleer Graig Nettles card(error) $12 card should be worth $25 in2 years... It's now worth $10

75 Topps Robin Yount

83 Topps WadeBoggs

84 Fleer Update Dwight GoodenI love this one, $75 card now worth$14

69Topps Reggie Jackson

72 Topps Carlton Fisk. Sell your children,sell your vintage T-Bird, buy this card. Was $50 now $55

86 DonrussRookies Bo Jackson

86 Donruss Jose Canseco

Just to name a few. I didappreciate a couple of their calls. 79 Topps Ozzie Smith,86 SportflicsCanseco/Greenwell/Tartabull Error. I thought the 89 Star Co. Bob Hamelinwas a good call. He did only have one good year and then fizzled but thecall did show insight.I gave the book 2 stars because the reading wasenjoyable and informative. The picks were just terrible. In their defense Iwould like to say that most of these cards are from the "era of massproduction" and as we all no scarcity as well as popularity drive acards price. I didn't have time to price out all the cards in the book andthen compare them to todays values, but maybe that would be a good raineyday project. If I do I will update this.

very interesting baseball nostalgia book
THE BOOK IS VERY INTERESTING FOR THOSE LIKE ME WHO GREW UP IN THE 50's and60's.the pictures are very good and the book is very easy reading with acapsule of all the top 100 players.the pictures look like they were takenyesterday.What is particularly rewarding is the book brings me back andreveals to me how really great these players were.STan musial to billdickey to the great negro league players.babe ruth is ranked # WITH WILLIEMAYS RANKED SECOND ON THE ALL TIME LIST.THE PLAYERS OF YESTERDAY WOULD BEGREAT IN ANY ERA.I AM REALLY PLEASED WITH THE QUALITY OF THE BOOK IT ISEASY TO READ AND CONTAINS ALL OF THE GREAT ALL TIME BASEBALL RECORD HOLDERSAND COMPARES THEM BASED ON STATISTICAL COMPARISON/A MUST READ FOR ANYBASEBALL FAN OF THE FUTURE/PRESENT AND PAST ... Read more

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Real-World Pricing for More Than One Million Cards


Standard Catalog of® Baseball Cards is not only the longest-running and most trusted large-format baseball card price guide, it?s the most comprehensive fact and photo-filled guide in the collecting game. The depth of coverage and ease of use of this book makes it the premier choice, whether you?re a seasoned veteran of card collecting or a rookie just getting into the hobby.

You get accurate pricing, reflective of real-world market values for more than one million cards, plus 10,000 photos in this top-selling reference. In the pages of this mammoth guide you?ll find listings for cards, including Tobacco and Bubble Gum cards and Specialty Issues, released between 1863-2010 and minor league listings. Nothing comes close to the depth of details and completeness of coverage you gain with this go-to guide.

Use it to be an informed, competitive and confident collector, buyer, and seller of baseball cards from the past and present. ... Read more

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Massive - More than a Million Values!
This is the best baseball card price guide I've ever seen and it's worth every penny. The book has every piece of information you could possibly ever ask for. At 1,848 pages, there's so many listings that the chronological and alphabetical indexes in the back are a huge help in quickly find the exact card you're looking for. ... Read more

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Hockey collectors will find more than 2,500 card sets listed and 15,000 listings for players.Includes prices and listings from 1910 to present for nearly every hockey card ever produced.Features expanded hockey collectibles coverage, plus how-to-collect section and history of hockey cards. ... Read more

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great
I filled all my blank listing prices from this book ... Read more

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Every Card for Every Year!
This book shows the front side of every Topps baseball card that was created from their inception in 1951 through 1990, when the book was published. It also includes the "Traded Series" for those players drafted or traded during said year. Each year has a section of what happened in the season during said year, and has a quiz. The quiz asks a question, and the answer is told in the form of a number, which correlates to a specific players card number for that year. This book is a joy to have, especially at looking into the past and seeing the players of yesteryear. The book is heavy, as it is almost 11 pounds, but it is well worth it!

Topps Complete Baseball Card Collection In A Book!
Excellent View of all Topps Baseball Cards Presented Yearly of each cards front face reduced to approx. 20% of the actual size on nice premium glosy thick paper.Hoping that someday maybe the size (larger) and back side of each card can be made in the same format. For now the next best thing to actually owning the entire collection which (Depending of course on condtion) could cost approx. half million dollars. An excellent gift for any baseball card fan of years gone by to re-live there child-hood memories in this massive volume weighting more than 10-lbs. ... Read more

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An extensive guide to hockey cards provides a complete alphabetical listing of each major and minor league player, including statistical information, card price values with regards to condition, and more. Original. IP. ... Read more

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A Must Have !
If you like to buy and sell Hockey cards, then this book will be extremely helpful.It lists all the cards that are found in this sport ever made.The pricing is also up to date.I have found it to be a valuable resource for myself, my store and my auctions.

The best Hockey Card source ever!!
The best Hockey Card source ever!!This is by far the best source for any hockey card collector. If you are looking for a checklist for any player or team this is the place.

THE HOCKEY CARD BIBLE! Its a must have ... Read more

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Denton True Young was nicknamed Cy. That's because his fastball was known as the "cyclone pitch." This Hall of Fame pitcher ruled the mound from 1890 to 1911. The Cy Young Award, named for him, is given every year to the best pitcher in each league. If you could create a new sports award, what would it honor? What would you name it? Why? ... Read more

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-Written by authoritative voice of the hobby

-Strong presence in eBay auctions: 185,000 auctions at any given time

-Interest in professional baseball is on the rise: advanced ticket sales are up 6 percent, total revenues projected to increase 40 percent

From the ballpark to the backyard, baseball is a sport for all generations and the stuff legends are still made of. Designed with childhood dreams and practical needs of the collector in mind, the editors of Sports Collectors Digest offer readers the most complete book on modern baseball cards from 1981-present in 2006 Baseball Card Price Guide.

In this thorough guide, collectors will find:

-375,000 cards featuring pricing for near mint/mint condition

-Present market values, based on feedback from a network of sports collectibles dealers and auction sales

-User-friendly index and tab format reference allows readers to easily navigate this large-scale resource

-2,200 photos for quickly identifying cards of today's awesome outfielders and yesterday's home plate heroes

This complete guide delivers all the details to make baseball card collecting a "grandslam" experience. ... Read more

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baseball card price guide
good price, book was in very good condition,prompt delivery would defintely do business with again!!!!!!

Good reference book
Understand this is not a book you sit down and read.It is a great reference book and we found quite a bit of good information located within the pages.

Baseball price guide
All the information I needed to stay current with the trading card business.

this book only covers years 1981 to present
this is not highlited when ordering ... Read more

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The first authoritative book on collecting football cards -- the hottest hobby in America today/ It offers valuable get-started advice for both beginners and seasoned card collectors. It answers such questions as: What to collect; how to collect; which players are generally valued more or less than others; why there are variations in football cards; why variation card values can rise and fall sharply. ... Read more

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A great book for studying and teaching about masculinity
Bloom's well-researched study of baseball collectors in the 1980s is a wonderful text for studying and teaching about masculinity and popular culture.His book raises important questions about the crisis ofmasculinity in the latter part of the twentieth century, and the ways thatpopular culture practices like baseball card collecting both challengedand, ultimately, shored up traditional gender boundaries between men andwomen.Bloom's work also focuses extensively on the issue of nostalgia,particularly the idealized memory of 1950s American boyhoods. An accessibleand engaging tone makes this a fine text to use in popular culture classesor in gender studies classes.

A great book for studying and teaching about masculinity
Bloom's well-researched study of baseball collectors in the 1980s is a wonderful text for studying and teaching about masculinity and popular culture.His book raises important questions about the crisis ofmasculinity in the latter part of the twentieth century, and the ways thatpopular culture practices like baseball card collecting both challengedand, ultimately, shored up traditional gender boundaries between men andwomen.Bloom's work also focuses extensively on the issue of nostalgia,particularly the idealized memory of 1950s American boyhoods. An accessibleand engaging tone makes this a fine text to use in popular culture classesor in gender studies classes.

Finally something intelligently written!
As a baseball card collector for over 20 years, I have read countless articles in countless publications about baseball cards and cardcollecting.Almost every one of the has focused on either the financialaspects of the hobby or on how great it is to be a collector.John Bloomhas written a thought provoking and academic book which examines WHY wecollect.

While I do not agree with some of the authors positions,specifically about race and homoerotocism, I feel that they are wellthought out and presented.His description of the MCC, a card collectorsclub, is very similar to my own experiences in the two clubs to which Ihave belonged in the past, and offers a unique look at the pettiness andpower struggles that often arise in these organizations.

Many collectorsand hobby writers came out very strongly against this book, but I thinkthat many of them looked at Blooms' conclusions as an attack on the hobbyof card collecting.They are not.

While the academic tone of the bookcan make it difficult to read at times, the insights that it offers and thefact that it at least makes the reader THINK about the nature of collectingare reason enough to read "House of Cards".

Acadamia runs amok, to make sensational, exaggerated point
Collecting baseball cards evokes memories of crisp wax paper; the assault of a preadolescent nose with the aroma of sickly sweet, often stale, powder-sugar coated bubble gum; the thrill of your first Ted Williams card; and of clothes-pinning your sixth Pedro Ramos in your bicycle spokes.

In stark contrast, Bloom's book portrays collectors in the angry, white man role; discusses the collector's insecurities about their rapidly declining social position; their disturbing attitudes toward blacks and women; and their apparent inability to get a date in high school.Why is Bloom saying such disparaging things about the people who collect baseball cards?

Bloom spent some time in the late 1980s attending baseball card shows in Minnesota.His observations at the shows, sports card shops, interviews with hobbyists, and secondary research, form the basis for this adaptation of his doctoral thesis.

Baseball card collecting can evolve from a children's hobby to an adult's business.But the hobby took on an entirely new dynamic during the Reagan years.Many American boys collected cards, and in the economic boom of the 1980s, price's escalated, and collectors found (if mom hadn't gotten there first) treasure troves in long-forgotten, old shoe boxes.Unfortunately, many believed, including Bloom, that the newfound wealth corrupted the hobby.

Bloom's typical adult collector is white, male, and lower-middle class.In turn, Bloom blames these card collectors for failed marriages, deceit, deception, the manipulation of children, the exclusion and derision of women, and distancing the races.

But is the assertion valid that adult collectors are sexist, merely because the majority are male?Similarly, are they racist because a majority are white?Is the fact that Mickey Mantle's 1952 Topps rookie card sells at a higher price than Willie Mays' 1952 card, justifiable evidence of racism among the collecting enthusiasts as the author brazenly maintains?

The impact and social ramifications of collecting baseball cards appear to be stretched beyond the realm of plausibility to make an alarming, though questionable, point.Is it possible that collecting bits of cardboard, emblazoned with the images of childhood heroes, really be the cause of this much social discord?

But the author has missed a critical point.Bloom states that the cards, in and of themselves, "are of no real consequence."Most collectors would vehemently disagree.Baseball cards derive their value by resurrecting the reminiscences of the collector's youthful heroes.There is a collective social memory which envelops the collectors and their cards.The fact that trade guides indicate that selected cards may have some extrinsic value is nice, but for the majority of collectors, not paramount.The same native affinity does not permeate collecting spoons, stamps or coins, or even football or basketball cards.The fact that these collectibles are baseball cards matters a great deal. ... Read more

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This is a must-have guide for anyone who is interested in seeing and learning more about the most collectable cards in the world. ... Read more

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Beckett Official Price Guide to Football Cards 2010, 29th Edition is a revised and updated edition of the definitive guide to football cards, written by Dr. James Beckett, the leading authority on sports cards and the founder and publisher of the popular Beckett monthly magazines for collectors. It provides valuable information on the history of football cards, how to buy and sell cards, and how to care for a collection.

This essential resource for any collector also includes:

· Over 125,000 football card prices listed, from 1948 to the present
· More than 40 brands
· Hundreds of football cards photos for easy identification
· Prices for full sets and individual cards
· New listings for all the top rookie players ... Read more

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Okay for mainstream cards...but not for even semi-specialty collections
My wife purchased this book for me to look up my football cards from my youth. I was excited to receive it as I used to own beckett magazines as a teen to look up the prices of my cards. The problem soon became apparent, this is by no means a complete listing of prices and doesn't even come close to allowing me to look up prices for even a quarter of the cards I have. I'm sure it is okay for mainstream collections of brands such as Topps and UpperDeck but when it comes to even smaller collections of Topps specialty cards you won't be able to find them in this book, just keep that in mind. ... Read more

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This is the volume baseball card collectors need to buy and sell smarter, and build collections theyll be proud to display. The 14th Edition of the Baseball Card Price Guide provides the most comprehensive checklist available for cards issued from 1981 - 2000 as analyzed by the hobbys leading team of experts.Current pricing makes previous editions obsolete. This volume includes 175,000+ cards and over 1,500 more sets than the previous edition. All values are based on the latest actual card transactions from coast to coast. And more than 2,000 clear crisp photos make identifying cards easy.

-Current market value prices.-All Modern Era baseball cards listed.-Thousands of new 1998 - 1999 cards included. ... Read more

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This Book was not helpful.
I have been collecting baseball cards for a few years and when I need to look up the value of some of my cards this book usually never has them. It is pretty easy to use and is well organized, but It doesn't help you understand the value of your cards.I suggest that you should keep looking, and buy this only as a last resort.

A so-so guide
This pricing guide was comparable to other guides I have read.It showed nothing to place itself above or below the others in quality.The prices I fear shall soon be out of date and so will this book... ... Read more

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The baseball card market is heating up again and your customers are spending most of their time and money on the newer cards! The new edition of the Baseball Card Price Guide provides them with the most comprehensive checklist available for cards issued from 1981-2001. More than 175,000 cards are priced by the analysts of the sports card hobby’s leading publication, Sports Collectors Digest.

Your customers can count on having the most current sets, the very latest releases of 2001 and the hottest insert cards checklisted and priced. Plus more than 2,000 large, clear photos will appeal to both new and experienced collectors.

All prices have been compiled from actual card transactions from the Sports Collectors Digest’s dealer network and via auction results so your book buyers can be assured of current and accurate real-world prices.

- 175,000 cards checklisted and priced from 1981-2001 - A glossary of hobby terms and tutorial on how to grade and evaluate cards- More than 2,000 large, clear photos for simple identification ... Read more

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upto date price guide
i have used this book to look up alot of cards that is was going to buy to see there actual b.v and in the book some of the cards i recently bought were actualy below what there b.v was so i resold them and made a 200%profit!buy this book and find out what your baseball cards areworth.! ... Read more