- SKU: 9781966219057
- BARCODE: 9781966219057
- VENDOR: BooksCloud
Reflections on Collecting: Still Musing on Collecting and American Antiques - Hardcover
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Description
by Baron Perlman (Author), Ken Carvillion (Photographer)
Reflections on Collecting exemplifies the world of American antiques, welcoming and supporting all in the collecting universe. Anyone who wants to understand and appreciate collecting and collectors needs this book.
A long-time collector, an interest in what makes collecting and collectors tick, an exploration of the decisions and emotions collectors experience, discoveries, wanderings and wonderings of collecting, all presented with grace and humbleness of Dr. Perlman's own knowledge and foibles. With joy and humor, what's not to like?
Collecting is life. Reflections on Collecting welcomes and supports all in the collecting universe or know someone who is, in this tome, the world of American antiques. Anyone who wants to understand and appreciate himself or others as collectors needs this book.
This book
- Describes collector characteristics including resilience and wondering.
- Focuses on the collector experience - failure, awe, joy, and love and desire among others.
- Looks at what affects collectors such as good luck, seduction and the casting of spells.
- Explores what collecting involves - pitfalls, finds, and paradoxically the value of quitting.
- Reflects on collectors' attachment to "old friends," and some of the mysteries of collecting.
- Asserts that collecting is indeed a noble adventure full of wonderment.
Pick up Reflections on Collecting and immerse yourself in the collector's universe, a world Baron Perlman loves and beseeches you to also. Let the adventure begin.
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