All the Best Rubbish: The Classic Ode to Collecting Paperback - 2009
by Noel Hume, Ivor
- New
Charming and timeless, this book explores the pleasures of collecting--why people do it, what they find, and most important, what they learn. This edition includes a new Introduction about collecting on the Internet.
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- Title All the Best Rubbish: The Classic Ode to Collecting
- Author Noel Hume, Ivor
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 2nd edition
- Condition New
- Pages 352
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Harper Paperbacks, New York, New York
- Date 2009-11-03
- Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # 52GZZZ00FL0N_ns
- ISBN 9780061809897 / 0061809896
- Weight 0.82 lbs (0.37 kg)
- Dimensions 9.3 x 7.08 x 0.91 in (23.62 x 17.98 x 2.31 cm)
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2010292586
- Dewey Decimal Code 745.1
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From the rear cover
One person's trash is another's treasure!
In his newly revised classic, All the Best Rubbish, Ivor Nol Hume traces the fascinating history of collecting from its recorded beginnings and describes the remarkable detective work that goes into establishing the probable facts about uncovered and often underappreciated treasures. Now expanded with hints, tips, and helpful information about antique-hunting online, All the Best Rubbish is the ideal book for the antiquarian or amateur, the historian or professional collector--for anyone who knows that there's no such thing as "just junk."
Nol Hume, former head of the Department of Archaeology for Colonial Williamsburg, has pursued bottles, pottery, clocks, and coins through junk shops, street markets, attics, and cellars on two continents. He's unearthed the most fascinating--and valuable--rubbish from the most unlikely places: the shores of the Thames in London; the lagoons of the Caribbean; the bottom of Martha Washington's well. Hume knows everything that's worth knowing about collecting--why we do it, what we can find, where we can find it, and what we can learn from it.
