Appraisal services

APPRAISER	EXPERIENCE AND AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION
Charles Agvent 291 Linden Road Mertztown, PA 19539-8750 Phone: 610-682-4750 Fax: 610-682-4620 Email: agvent@erols.com Website: www.erols.com/agvent	Signed Books & Autographs, Modern and 19th Century Literary First Editions, Limited Editions Club, Early Printed Books.
John Ballinger The Bookpress Ltd. 1304 Jamestown Road Williamsburg, Virginia 23185 Phone: 757-229-1260 Email: bookpress@widowmaker.com Website: bookpress.com	Over 20 years experience of appraising rare books, manuscripts, maps and ephemera. Specialists in architecture, fine and applied arts, Virginiana, Americana, fine printing, printing history, books in Colonial American libraries, literature and first editions.
Dr. Henry Bartholomew Cox Counsellor at Law and Appraiser 11035 Riverview Road Fort Washington, Maryland 20744 Phone: 301-292-1333	Manuscripts, letters, etc., from "all periods of United States history from the colonial era."
L. W. Currey, Inc. Lloyd Currey Walter Street P. O. Box 187 Elizabethtown, NY 12932 Phone: 518-873-6477 Fax: 518-873-9105 Email: lloyd@lwcurrey.com Website: www.lwcurrey.com	Specializing in 19th century American literature, modern first editions, fantasy and science fiction.
Mr. Paul Collinge Heartwood Books, ABAA 5 & 9 Elliewood Avenue Charlottesville, Virginia 22901 Phone: 804-295-7083	General book collections, University [of Virginia] and Virginia material, American History (including manuscripts), Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Literature first editions, Medicine and Science"
Linda Fike Befores And Afters College Station, Texas Phone: 979-696-6364 or 979-224-3986 Email: beforesandafters@hotmail.com	Digitization, restoration, and optimization of photos, slides, negatives, photo albums and scrapbooks. Digital inventories (spreadsheet entries referenced to digital photos) of collections for insurance or estate planning.
Mrs. Mary Gilliam Franklin Gilliam: Rare Books, ABAA 218 South Street Charlottesville, VA 22903 Phone: 804-979-2512 Email: fgrare@comclin.net	Manuscripts, books, photographs, etc., "in such fields as: English and American literature and history, European literature and history, printing history and fine printing, bibliography, medicine and Americana."
Ms. Vesta L. Gordon The Book Broker, ABAA 114 Bollingwood Road Charlottesville, VA 22903 Phone: 804-296-2194 Email: bookbrk@cfw.com	"Books, manuscripts and ephemera in the following fields: American history and literature, especially pertaining to Virginia and the South; British and European literature and history; the book arts including printing history, illustrated books and fine printing; and general book collections comprising a variety of subjects."
John R. Payne Payne Associates 2309 Camino Alto Austin, TX 78746 Phone: 512- 328-4535 Website: www.payne-associates.com Email: payne@payne-associates.com	"...all library materials including rare books, journals, common books, historical archives, manuscripts, and photographs. Appraisals are prepared for charitable donations, insurance, estate division, and resell purposes. All subjects and all time periods are appraised."
William Reese Company 409 Temple Street New Haven, CT 06511 USA Phone: 203-789-8081 Fax: 203-865-7653	"With a catalogued inventory of over thirty thousand items, and a general inventory of over sixty-five thousand items, we are among the lading specialists in the fields of Americana and world travel, and maintain a large and eclectic inventory of literary first editions and antiquarian books of the 18th through 20th centuries."
Mr. Jerry N. Showalter Post Office Box 84 Ivy, Virginia 22945 Phone: 804-295-6413 evenings Email: jnsbooks@aol.com	Americana of all types, books and manuscripts
Dorothy Sloan - Rare Books P. O. Box 49670 Austin, TX 78765-9670 Phone: 512-477-8442 Fax: 512-477-8602	Fine and Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps, Prints and Paintings, Texana, Southwest
Michael Vinson Box 640 Afton, WY 83110 Phone: 307-885-6600 Emails: m_vinson@silverstar.com and mvinson@io.com	General rare books, Literature, Texana, Southwest