Collectors Guide to Post Cards: All Cards Illustrated and Priced

Forrest Lyons, Jr.

Published by L-W Promotions, Gas City, Indiana, 1974

About this Item

First Edition. Softcover. Octavo. 144 pp. Original publisher's white pictorial wrappers printed with repeating blue and gray typography; original $6.95 cover price intact. Heavily illustrated throughout with black-and-white photographic reproductions of hundreds of collectible antique, vintage, and novelty postcards alongside historical classifications and market valuations.

A solid, clean copy in Very Good condition: binding is tight and square with no spine creases. Wrappers show light surface rubbing, minor edge shelfwear, and mild natural age-toning around the perimeters. Interior pages are clean, bright, and completely unmarked throughout, free of former owner names, stamps, or marginalia.

An essential early reference guide for deltiologists and paper ephemera dealers. Forrest Lyons categorizes a wide array of turn-of-the-century and Golden Age postcards?including embossed holiday greetings (Halloween, Christmas, Valentine's Day), comic/novelty cards, Tuck & Sons issues, real photo postcards (RPPCs), exposition/fair issues, and regional view cards?providing valuable insight into vintage production types, printing methods, and collector grading.

Seller Inventory # 1010200088

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Collectors Guide to Post Cards: All Cards Illustrated and Priced
• Publisher: L-W Promotions, Gas City, Indiana
• Publication Date: 1974
• Language: English
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Weight: 1 pound
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