Come Collect with Me: Musings on Collecting and American Antiques

A mainstream collector's voice, a psychologist's eye on collecting and collectors, a university teacher’s questioning, and an approachable style. Put those together and you have a recipe for a winning book, which contains exercises on style and connoisseurship with photographs of antiques from Perlman’s collection that he analyzes, including the compromises made in their purchase. A collector maintains a delicate balancing act keeping research, the intellectual and passion in harmony. This ...