Gerneral Autograph Collecting

The joy and techniques of autograph collecting. Presentation from Hamilton on the free endpaper.

A Reference and Price Guide for Sports and Celebrity Autographs; 1999, 256 pages, illustrated.

Contains some 40 articles by famous autograph dealers and collectors who discuss how to detect fake autographs;  how to care for your collection; and details different ways of how to collect autographs by different topics: science, religion, literature, politics, etc.

The Manuscript Society Criteria for Describing Manuscripts and Documents 3 presents standardized abbreviations (codes) and recommends their use. Most of the code letters are not new, but because of the extreme variability in their usage over the years, it became necessary to adopt a more precise set of criteria for all to use. Periods between abbreviations were eliminated (e.g. ALS instead of A.L.S.). Precise dictionary definitions for each code letter were applied (e.g. A = autographed). Autograph is a noun or transitive verb, not an adjective; thus ALS = autographed letter signed, not autograph letter signed).

illustrated, General Books LLC, 2010