Recommended Books?

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I did a search, but I only found random references to books and guides. I'm a bit of a book hound and short on info about "slipjoints" as you gentlemen seem to refer to them. Any good collector guides on pocket/folders/etc. would be of interest to me.

Your recommendations?
 
Stop by the Bernard Levine forum here on BFC and click on his name in any of the posts for his home page. His book 'Levine's Guide to Knives and their Values' edition four, is the best, IMHO. Also, with your interest in odd pocket knives, you may find 'Knife World magazine to be of great interest.
Welcome to the forums.
Phil
 
JHuston,
As Phil mentioned, you may enjoy Knife World. It's not sold at newsstands, but if you go to www.knifeworld.com and click on "Free Trial" on the menu on the left, they'll send you a 3 issue trial for free. I enjoy it alot. It isn't really a book or magazine, more like a newspaper.....but it's good reading.

Bill
 
Knife World has also published a few volumes of 'The best of Knife World', and you can find them used easy enough online. Interesting reading, fascinating articles.
Phil
 
Thank you for the suggestions and the welcome. I'll be looking into these. (I may give my family some ideas for Christmas.)
 
What the toothpick man from Texas said.

LG 4 or before are invaluable I also have enjoyed many books from Knife World. (Mark the editor always comes up with some great books and very fair prices. A few years ago he offered me vol1 of the Best of KW which helped finish a set for me.)

The book on Sheffield Exhibition knives is also one of my favorite when it comes to multi-blades.

Other authors along the price gude lines are.
Houston Price
Jim (or James) Sargent
Jim (or James) Parker
Dewey Ferguson (Case knives and patterns)
 
Be careful if you purchase Parker's books as they tend to "inflate" Parker, brand, Parker cutlery, Parker eagle brand knives, etc. (they are his former knife companies). I just saw an add in smoky for parkers new knife encyclopedia book he just finished. It has a few collectible brands, including rough rider. I do not mean to be rude, but personally I do not find rough rider knives to be collectible. Personally I would not buy one, or put one on a display at a show. Im not trying to be rude about the rough rider knives, but most collectors would get a pretty good laugh out of that.

Knife world is a good resource for books.

Parker® Autographed Knife Collector's Encyclopedia - Hardcover $34.99

brand: Parker Cutlery Co. JPBOOK11A
SMKW is excited to introduce the result of an idea that was seven years in the mind of Cutlery Hall of Fame member Jim Parker--the Knife Collector's Encyclopedia. Jim Parker is the undisputed expert when it comes to knife collecting. Jim himself is a lifelong knife collector as well as a veteran of the cutlery business, with a number of knife reference books already under his writing belt. He was a co-founder of the biggest custom knife show in the industry, The Blade Show, and founding president of the National Knife Collectors Association.

·Book features:
·Hardcover
·Signed
·Numbered
·400 pages
·How and what to collect
·Knife museums
·Where to buy and trade knives
·How to grade
·Tips for selling knives
·Thousand of pictured knives with current collector values
·Limited to 500 copies

Some of the brands with values include Boker, Bulldog Brand, Christian Brothers, Fight'n Rooster, Case, Twin Henckels, Linder, Eye Brand,--AND several German brands that have never before been covered! You will also find info on Parker Brothers, fantastic display knives and Rough Rider collectibles.
 
I believe Bernard Levine has run out of copies of his famous fourth edition, there is a shorter book that he wrote on pocket knives, I don´t know the name in English, I have a Spanish translation just titled "Navajas".

If you want to see a bit on European slipjoints you may try:

"Collectible Pocket Knives" by Dominique Pascal, originally published as "La Folie des Couteaux de Poche", 2001 by Flammarion, Paris.

Luis
 
Bastid said:
The book on Sheffield Exhibition knives is also one of my favorite when it comes to multi-blades.

I'll second this recommendation. An absolutely beautiful book with spectacular knives.

The other one I'd recommend is the book on how to make slipjoints, by Shadley and Davis(with a foreword by Tony Bose to boot!)
 
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