GREAT BOOK, Prices are of actual auction items. Not guesstimates by inexperience web shoppers.
Well, I was going to say, "Please tell me it doesn't include a price guide...". We all know about opinions, but the price of the objects we collect is about as subjective as you can get, in my opinion, At one space in time at on particular place, one particular person anted up a certain amount of money for a particular item. We have no clue as to the real reason he paid that particular price nor can we predict whether or not the next person at the next auction will pay half as much or twice as much. Then, the general public gets wind of the price only (print is still a powerful medium) and suddenly antyhing even remotely resembling the original item is worth a fortune. And so on and so forth.
Another problem, in my opinion, is the longevity of the book. One year, three years, ten years down the road, sixteen different factors have influenced the value of the object(s), but you can bet some peckerwood is going to pull out that price guide and there you go again.
THIS IS MY OPINION-it is not to start a ******* contest of differing opinions and it is certainly not meant to discredit the author (of whom I have no personal knowledge or opinion of) nor to discourage anyone from buying the book. I'm certainly going to buy one- for information and entertainment; not to rate his pricing guide nor to valuate my piddly collection. I'm done. : )