|
Button Images is providing this page as a web resource for the
button collector. We plan to maintain and expand this list. Please EMail your additions
and comments.
The Button Book Bibliography
(Updated on 04/23/07)
* Books currently in publication
|
A Carnival of Iridescent Luster Buttons
by Ruth Miller Clark, Stillhouse Hollow Publishers, Temple, TX, 1986 |
| * |
About Buttons by Peggy Ann Osborne,
Schiffer Publishing Ltd., Atglen, PA, 1994. |
| * |
A Collector’s Guide to French
Military Buttons of the American Revolution 1775 to 1783 by Marian L. Hurley, 123
Doxbury Lane, Suffern, NY 10901-7243, 1998 |
|
All in a Nutshell: Vegetable Ivory
by Shirl Schabilion, Keystone Comedy, MS., Petrified Foreset, Flora, MS, 1983 |
| * |
Antique and Collectible Buttons by
Debra J. Wisniewski, Collector Books Paducah, KY, 1997 |
|
Antique Buttons by Primrose
Peacock, Drake Publishers Inc., New York, 1972 |
| * |
A Reference Book on Studio Button
Makers, Jane S. Leslie, Arro Press, Wilmington, MA, 1997 |
|
Backs of Buttons by Dorthy Foster
Brown & George Elbert Adams, GE Adams, Glocester, RI, 1946 |
|
Black Glass Buttons, 1945 by Nora
Owen Jones and Edith Mattison Fuoss, combined with Return Engagement of Black Glass
Buttons, 1952 by Caroline Smith and Edith E. Fuoss, reprinted by New Leaf Publishers,
Sedgwick, ME, 1994 |
| * |
Button, Button by Peggy Anne
Osborne, Schiffer Publishing Ltd., Atglen, PA 1993 |
|
Button Classics by L. Erwina Couse
& Marguerite Maple, Lightener Publishing Col, Chicago, 1941 |
|
Button Handbook by Florence
Zacharie and Ellis Nicholls, reprinted by New Leaf Publishers, Sedgwick, ME, 1994 |
|
Button Heritage by Erwina
Chamberlin and Minerva Miner, Faulkner, Faulkner Printing Company Inc., Sherburne, NY,
revised 1976 |
|
Button Parade by Dorothy Foster
Brown, Wallace-Homstead Book Co., revised 1968 |
|
Buttons Are Art by Louise
Huntington Jarvis, Wobbema & Sons, Printers, Grand Rapids, MI 1948 |
|
Buttons by Diana Epstein and
Millicent Safro, Harry Abrams, New York, 1991 |
| * |
Buttons by Diana Epstein, Walker and
Company, New York, 1968 |
|
Buttons by Nancy Fink and Maryalice
Ditzler, Courage Books, Philadelphia, PA, 1993 |
|
Buttons of the Confederacy by
Alpaheus H. Albert, Boyertown Publishing Co., Boyerstown, PA 1963 |
| * |
Buttons and Sundries by Vittoria
deBuzzaccarini & Isabella Zotti Minici, ZanfiEditori s.r.l., Via Ganaceto 121, 41100
Modena, Italy, 1990 |
|
Buttons: Art in Miniature, by
Stefan O. Schiff, Lancaster-Miller Publishers, Berkley, CA, 1979 |
| * |
Buttons, The Collector's Guide to
Selecting, Restoring & Enjoying New and Vintage Buttons, by Nancy Fink &
Maryalice Ditzler, Courage Books, Running Press, Philadelphia, PA 1993 |
|
Civil War Collectors Guide to
Albert’s Button Book by Daniel J. Binder, Publishers Press, Orange, VA, 1993 |
| * |
Classification of Black Glass Buttons,
by Jane Ford Adams & Lillian Smith Alberts, National Button Society, Sullivan Litho
Graphics, Wichita, KS 1987 |
| * |
Classification of Pearl and Shell
Buttons by Margaret F. Kelso, NBS, Published by Boyertown Publishing Co., Boyertown,
PA 1971 |
| * |
Complete Classification of Clear
Colored Glass Buttons by Jane Ford Adams revised by Helen L. Ryan, NBS, Planks Press,
Camp Hill, PA 1986 |
| * |
Fun Buttons by Peggy Ann Osborne,
Schiffer Publishing Ltd., Atglen, PA, 1994 |
|
Goofies Book I & Book II by E.
Packard, Tacoma, WA 1951 & 1953 |
| * |
Guidelines for Collecting China Buttons
by Ruth Lamm and Beatrice and Lesther Lorah and Helen W. Schuller, The National Button
Society, 1970 |
|
Little Buttons by Ethel B. Cassidy,
Wellington Printing Co., Wellington, OH, 1943 |
|
Military Buttons, the Emilio
Collection. By Luis Fenollosa Emilio, The Essex Institute, Salem, MA , 1911 |
|
National Button Bulletin Index
1942-1981 by Helen L. Cooper, Colonial Button Club, York PA, 1982 |
| * |
National Button Bulletin Index
1982-1993 by Pat Fields, WA State Button Society, Seattle, WA, 1994 |
| * |
Pictorial Overall Buttons by Jane
Ford Adams & Lillian Smith Albert, National Button Society, Boyertown Publishing Co.,
PA, 1965 |
|
Picture Buttons of the Past by
Evelyn Swenson, The New England Publishing, Co., Stratford, CT, 1978 |
|
Political Campaign & Commemorative
Buttons by Alphaeus H. Alberts, Boyertown Publishing Co., PA 1966 |
| * |
Record of American Uniform and
Historical Buttons Bicentenial Edition by Alphaeus (Dewey) Albert, Boyertown
Publishing Co., Boyertown, PA, Revised ed., 1976. |
|
Return Engagement of Black Glass
Buttons by Caroline Smith & Edith E. Fuoss, Univ. Lithoprinters, Ypsilanti, MI
1952 |
|
The Big Book of Buttons by
Elizabeth Hughes and Marion Lester, reprinted by New Leaf Publishers, Sedgwick, ME, 1991. |
| * |
The Button Book by Diana Epstein,
Running Press, Philadelphia & London, 1996 |
|
The Button Collector's History by
Grace Horney Ford, Pond-Ekberg Co., Springfield MA 1943 |
|
The Button Industry by W. Unite
Jones, London, Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, Ltd. Pitman Press, Bath 1924 |
|
The Button Lovers Book by Marilyn
V. Green, Chilton Book Co., Radnor, PA 1991 |
|
The Button Sampler by Lillian Smith
Albert and Jane Ford Adams, Gramercy Publishing Company, NY, 1951 |
| * |
The Collector’s Encyclopedia of
Buttons by Sally Luscomb, Crown Publishers, Inc., New York, NY, 1967. Reprinted by
Schiffer Publishing Ltd., Atglen, JPA, 1992 & 1997 |
| * |
The Colorful World of Buttons by
Vivian Beck Ertell, The Pyne Press, Princeton, NJ, 1973. |
|
The Complete Button Book by Lillian
Smith Albert and Kathryn Kent, Doubleday, Garden City, NY, 1949. |
|
The Magic Land of Kate Greenaway by
Alice T. Tarbox, Published by Just Buttons, Southington, CT 1968 |
| * |
Transportation Uniform Buttons, Volume
I-Railroads, 1991, Volume II-Transit, 1993, Volume III-Maritime & Aviation, 1998, by
Donald VanCourt, Madison, NJ, privately published. |
|
Uniform Buttons American Armed Forces
1784-1948 Vol I & II by David F. Johnson, Century House, Watkins Glen, NY, 1948 |
| * |
Uniform Buttons of the United States
1776-1865, by Warren K. Tice, Thomas Publications, Gettysburg, PA 17325, 1997 |
|
Washington Historical Buttons by
Alphaeus H. Albert, Princeton Univ. Press, NJ, 1949) |
|
Wedgewood Buttons 1752-1963 by
Lillian Smith Albert & Jane Ford Adams, NBS Publication, 1964 |
A special thanks to Keith Golden, SHNG13A@prodigy.com for posting his bibliography in
the TIAS Button Newsgroup and his permission to use it's contents.
Some books that are currently in publication can be ordered
from these web sites.
BooksR4U
LWBooks
|
