baseball card encyclopedia by lew lipset

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Posted By: scott

the baseball card encyclopedia...i'm considering buying it.how detailed is the info.in the book?
thanks,
scott

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Posted By: joe

Hi Scott, have the original 3 books and I think they are great, lots of good information. I assume you are going to buy the issue that consolidates all 3 books into 1. I see them on ebay with 29.95 prices.

Joe

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Posted By: Zach

I purchased it a little while ago and if you are serious about collecting it is a must. I couldn't put it down. It goes into detail about every set,includes a checklist of the set,and includes a picture of the a card from the set.

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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.

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Posted By: scott

thanks everybody...i'll buy it on ebay for $29.95.
scott