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Posted By: Julie

can be had for $25 or less; the original, all three volumes, can run you as much as $150. The covers are all there; photos are sufficient (all are black and white), but not great. Lipset goes into great detail where his interests lie, less where they don't, but almost every set that had appeared in 83, '85 and '86 (I THINK those were the three years of publication) are represented and discussed. That is, every 19th century set, every early candy and gum set, every tobacco card set. Checklist for each. It's more of a reading book than a looking book (as opposed to Slocum's "Classic Baseball Cards", for instance, which pictures almost every card from the sets it shows--but doesn't show nearly all the sets, and says nothing at all about some it DOES picture).

It's a terrific referece book; my original fell apart, so i bought a reprint--but was really shocked by the xeroxed photos, so got myself another original.