Stamp Collecting: The Definitive-Everything You Ever Wanted to Know: Do I have a one million dollar stamp in my collection? Paperback – February 28, 2017

After inheriting a foot locker full of stamps, in books and just stamps, I purchased the book "Stamp Collecting". It was my intent to make sure I was getting a good deal when selling and who/how to sell off the collection.But after just browsing through the book and reading a few areas, I've been bitten by the collecting bug. LOL. Sure I'm still looking for that 1 in a 1,000,000 stamp, and this book will help me find it.The only negative I think about the book is that the glossary of stamp pictures in the end are black and white not colored.

Based upon the other reviews, I was quite disappointed.Here are my points of contention:1) The printing quality is very poor. This is a self-published book, and the only photographs are poor black and white reproductions at the back of the back.2) There are numerous spelling and grammatical errors; again, this is due to it being a self-published/print-on-demand book.3) The book mentions on numerous occasions a list of suggested auction houses in the appendix; this was not included. Again, lack of editing due to not being handled by a publisher.4) With respect to the vast knowledge of the writer, much of the information/advice in the book will not come as a shock nor surprise to the experienced collector/dealer. The only truly useful information gleaned is in the section on auction houses, regarding their inner workings, and even then, the book fails to deliver on the list of auction houses it mentions.5) The book is short; it can easily be read in a couple of hours, at most.6) The anecdotes are few and far between; if you'd like a collection of truly entertaining and useful anecdotes, I would firmly suggest the books by Stephen Datz as an alternative.The book would definitely prove useful to the novice to intermediate collector, but I believe it's a bit pretentious in it's affirmation of usefulness to the experienced collector/dealer. Consider it as a gift to someone early in their philatelic journey, but it's an easy pass for those late in the hobby.

Very informative!

I should have listened from the reviews here. The book is badly written, format-wise, content-wise, even images are badly placed. Just looked at the cover, pixelated images. I spend almost $20.00 and an additional $17 for shipping. It is a load of crap. I Will not recommend anyone to buy this book.

Just received it. Looks like alot usable information.its not what i thought would be getting. Just info. No individual pictures,color,of stamps. To back pictures of stamps half good b/w, others very faint samples. But info. Great.

I inherited a stamp collection that my father-in-law inherited. The book seems to provide good information to someone in my situation. I haven't delved very deeply into the stamp collection and will update this review once I do.

I didn’t like the way he tried to explain.

I am very impressed with this book. I haven't done all my research yet, I it looks like this book will help me very much.

Very useful for husband

excellent seller a very interesting book thanks jim

Excellent Book