Outline of Books for Lighter Collectors

Content Quality / Availability This is the standard work for Hard cover. 340 pages, 846 lighter collectors. A great illustrations. collector’s guide with lots of English/Italian valuable information about Out of print. Available second lighter manufacturers in Europe hand from collectors. and the USA. It focuses more on ISBN 88-85679-00-5 European brands/models.

Lighters Accendini by Stefano Bisconcini 1983 Called “the small Bisconcini”. A Soft cover. Handbook. 142 pages. lovely handbook with an extract English/Italian from the original book Lighters Available from amazon.com Accendini. ISBN 0-8118-1869-1

Lighters (Gli Accendini) by Stefano Bisconcini 1991 The result of years of research Hard Cover. 344 pages. Over 700 and study, The Dunhill Petrol illustrations Lighter provides an extensive English overview of the history and role Available from of petrol lighters within the www.uniquebooks.it overall Alfred Dunhill product ISBN 88-901596-0-X line, details of the production and commercial strategy used by the company to become an undisputed worldwide leader for this line of product, and a comprehensive photographic catalogue of Dunhill petrol The Dunhill Petrol Lighter by Bottoni/Blei lighters (both industrial and 2004 workshop productions). A MUST for Dunhill collectors and connoisseurs. Published by Dunhill Ltd. For the Hard Cover. 240 pages. 100 year+ anniversary of the English company. A detailed review of Out of print. For more Dunhill’s history as one of the information contact Dunhill Ltd. earliest luxury brands in the world. The book contains several great pictures of Dunhill lighters from the Dunhill Museum.

Alfred Dunhill, One hundred years and more by Michael Balfour 1992 When this book was published in Soft cover. 250 pages. 1992, the collecting of Ronson English lighters took a steep ascent in the Out of print. Frequently USA and the world. The book available at lighter shows and on includes most Ronson lighters Ebay. Also check amazon.com. ever made plus a deep insight in ISBN-0-9632796-0-2 to the history of Art Metal Works (Ronson). A great collector’s guide for Ronson collectors from the most knowledgeable specialist Urban Cummings.

Ronson Wick Lighters 1913-1966 by Urban K. Cummings 1992 This is the pocket guide that Soft cover handbook. 425 pages. followed in 2000. It contains no English historical information but an Check amazon.com extended variety of nearly 100% ISBN 0-9632796-1-0 of all Ronson lighters ever made. A handy guide for the Ronson collector with most accurate information. Ronson Wick Lighters 1913-2000 by Urban K. Cummings 2000. Simply the encyclopedia for Hard cover. 216 pages (first ZIPPO lighters and collectors. The edition) book contains excellent historical English information and a vast collection Check amazon.com (new of lighter-pictures and edition) illustrations. - Of course it is impossible to show all Zippo designs ever made…

ZIPPO The Great American Lighter by David Poore1997 (first publication) A handy pocket guide for Zippo Hard cover. 191 pages collectors. A good read for new Available in a German and English collectors (to get an overview) version and people who do not collect Check amazon.com but are interest in the topic. ISBN 3-89365-793-2 (German)

Zippo Feuerzeuge by Baer & Neumark 1999 The second book from these Hard cover. 192 pages. authors is an extensive work with English hundreds of exquisite vintage Check amazon.com lighters beyond the usual models ISBN 0-7643-1936-1 including a lot of European lighters. A most important guide for serious collectors.

The Golden Age of Cigarette Lighters by Pilossof & Schneider.2004 The first book from these authors Soft cover. 175 pages is a practical guide for lighter English collectors with great photography Check amazon.com and accurate information. - Not ISBN 0-7643-0932-3 as extensive as their second book but more practical to take along.

The Handbook of Vintage Cigarette Lighters by Pilossof & Schneider. 1999 A great book for lighter collectors Hard cover. 176 pages with a wide interest. Great English pictures and information. Check amazon.com ISBN 0-88740-952-0

Cigarette Lighters by Schneider & Fischler 1996 A comprehensive guide to Hard cover. 143 pages Ronson’s fine decorative metal English ware. You can’t find any lighters Check amazon.com in this book but it is an important ISBN 0-7643-1194-8 completion for Ronson collectors.

Ronson’s Art Metal Works by Stuart Schneider 2001 A comprehensive guide to the Soft cover. 166 pages. history and the products of the English Evans Case Company. The book Check amazon.com includes most Evans’ lighter ISBN 0-7643-0641-3 models, most other products as well as old advertising and patents.

The Evans Book by Larry Clayton 1998 50% of the content is about Soft cover. 190 pages lighter advertisements. The rest English contains of photos and Out of Print information of a large variety of ISBN 0-89538-056-0 collectible lighters, mostly from USA and Japan.

Collecting Cigarette Lighters by Neil S. Wood 1994 Wood’s second book has a lot Soft cover. 147 pages more pictures of much higher English quality. We find this book quite Check amazon.com interesting for collectors with a ISBN 0-89538-071-4 specific interest in figural lighters.

Collecting Cigarette Lighters II by Neil S. Wood 1995 James Flanagan’s first book Soft cover. 127 pages presents many pictures and brief English information. - A wild mix of Check amazon.com flavors.

Cigarette Lighters by James Flanagan 1995 James Flanagan’s second book Soft cover. 135 pages starts where his first book ended. English – Still a wild mix of flavors but Check amazon.com higher quality lighters shown.

Cigarette Lighters (Book 2) by James Flanagan 1996 This is a great re-print collection Soft cover. 359 pages of Lighter advertising and lighter- English catalogue pages. A wonderful Out of print tool to discover when specific Published in Japan by Green lighter designs were advertised. Arrow ISBN 4-7663-3212-1

Lighter by a Japanese Author ca. 1998 This is the most wonderful book Hard cover. 192 pages about the history and fascination English of fire-making and lighters. It Check amazon.com contains phantastic photographs ISBN 1-55859-854-5 and great stories. One of few books equally attractive to collectors and non-collectors.

The Legend of the Lighter by Ad van Weert 1995 A refreshing pocket guide for Soft cover. 375 pages cigarette lighters, written by a English or French French author. A charming Check amazon.com concept with many extraordinary ISBN 2-0801-1133-7 lighters. Great photos.

Collectible Lighters by Juan Manuel Clark 2002 This book reveals an enormous Hard cover. 196 pages amount of insight to many lighter German manufacturers and their Available from the author products. This is deep technical Guenter Broesan: content, based on the vast [email protected] knowledge of the authors. ISBN 3-9804748-4-4

If you are not fluent in German, you could still easily read the titles and most of the information related to the illustrations.

Neues über alte Feuerzeuge by Broesan & Gastl 2003 The first of Guenter Broesan’s Hard cover. 291 pages books includes exactly 1000 German/English lighters and very accurate Available from the author: information focusing to German [email protected] lighters. ISBN 3-9804748-3-6

1000 Cigarette Lighters by Guenter Broesan 1995 A wonderful book about strike- Hard cover. Ca. 50 pages lighters showing a magnificent German collection. High quality Available from the author. photographs of strike lighters in Contact: gold, silver and enamel. A treat www.strikerlighter.ch for the eyes. [email protected]

Streichfeuerzeuge/Strike Lighters by Urs Baetschmann 2007 This simple booklet presents an Soft cover. 91 pages extract from the Auer-von- German Welsbach Museum in Althofen, Available from the museum. Austria. The Museum is www.althofen.at/welsbach.htm dedicated to the inventor of the pyrophoric flint and the lighters shown are very rare models from his original collection. A must have for collectors interested in rare mechanisms.

Feuerzeuge im Auer-von-Welsbach Museum by Wolfgang Seyfried 1998 A magnificent book about the Hard cover. 131 pages development of fire steels. First English quality illustrations and Out of print. Frequently information. This is THE book available via amazon.com about this topic. ISBN 88-422-0687-3

Fire Steels by Cacciandra/Cesati 1996 Small but impressive booklet Soft cover. 49 pages about medieval fire steels. All English steels are shown in full scale. Ev. Available from the publisher: Copperfield Noise Publishing, Houston ISBN 0-9761088-0-1

Medieval Firsteels by Spiro Svoronos 2004 Impressive book about WW1 Hard cover. 208 pages Trench Art and Trench Art- French Lighters, written by the French Check amazon.fr (France) or your collector Patrice Warin. Requires local bookshop. French reading skills. ISBN 2-84673-007-5

Artisanat de Tranché & Briquets de Poilus by Patrice Warin 2003 Museum Catalog of a German Soft cover. 143 pages touring exhibition about the German history of fire-making. Excellent Out of print. Frequently book for collectors of early fire- available from collectors at making devices such as lighter shows. Doebereiner hydrogen-lamps etc. ISBN 3-927204-24-2 German reading skills required.

Feuerzeugs by Frank Gnegel 1994 Museum Catalogue of a German Soft cover. 182 pages exhibition about the history of German fire-making. The book is about all Out of print. Frequently fire-making methods with available from collectors at phantastic pictures of a lighter shows. breathtaking collection. German reading skills required.

Brandstifter by Haenlein/Fehre 2002 A wonderful book of an Hard cover. 213 pages important lighter collection of a German German collector. Detailed and Frequently available from extensively accurate content. collectors at lighter shows. German reading skills are advantageous.

Faszination Feuerzeuge by Manfred Klimaschewski 2007 A splendid handbook about the Soft cover. 86 pages history of fire-making and German modern lighters. Written by Rita Out of print. Frequently Bucheit from the owner family of available via amazon.de IMCO in Austria. German reading (Germany) skills required. ISBN 3-85447-155-6

Geschichte der Feuerzeuge by Rita Bucheit 1985 An unusual scientific book about Hard cover. 150 pages fire-making methods. It was German written and published in the Out of print. Frequently German Democratic Republic. available from collectors at German reading skills required. lighter shows. ISBN 3-343-00453-7

Feuer und Flamme by Brandes/Jarschel 1988 A great historical book about the Soft cover. 241 pages Piegler-company (Schleiz, German Thueringen, Germany), an Check www.jwdoebereiner.de important manufacturer of or amazon.de (Germany) Doebereiner-lighters back in the ISBN 3-935111-50-9 19th century. German reading skills required.

Feuer aus Schleiz by Dr. Theo Piegler 2001 Seyfried’s history of fire-making Soft cover. 381 pages methods is a profound work, German providing a huge amount of Out of print. Frequently information. German reading available from collectors at skills are absolutely required. lighter shows.

Die Feuerzeuge by Wolfgang Seyfried 1996 This is an illustrated booklet from Soft cover booklet. 22 pages the London Science Museum. – A English brief history of fire-making with Antiquarian pictures of the museum’s collection (formerly Bryant & May).

Making Fire by W.T O’Dea 1964 If you can find it, buy it just for Soft cover booklet. 85 pages fun. A booklet of 85 pages, called German a “catalogue” with most Out of print inaccurate information, poor photos and sky-high prices. We had a big laugh even back in 1987(!)

Antik Feuerzeug Katalog by Hubertus Schmudde 1987 A French book about tobacco Hard cover. 96 pages. history including match-Vestas French and Lighters. – Really well made Antiquarian with great illustrations. ISBN 2-7072-0129-4

Autour du Tabac by Pierre Faveton ca. 1970 This is the “catalogue of the Hard cover. 255 pages exhibits” from the landmark English exhibition of the Bryant & May Antiquarian collection of fire making appliances back in 1926 (London). It contains a foreword of Miller Christy and complete descriptions of all exhibits plus illustrations of a part of the collection.

Bryant & May’s museum catalogue 1926 A historic encyclopedia written in Soft cover. 1903. It contains scientific French specifications of fire-making Antiquarian methods and lighters of the 19 th century.

Briquets et Allumettes by W. Maigne 1903 A re-print of the original booklet. Soft cover. 85 pages Sedlacek describes life and work German of Auer von Welsbach, the Available from the museum. inventor of the Ferro-Cerium www.althofen.at/welsbach.htm metal and more.

If you want some expertise about the hero of modern lighters, this is what you should read.

Blätter für Geschichte der Technik by Franz Sedlacek 1934 (first publication) This is not for collectors but if you Hard cover. 205 pages fancy applying early fire-making- German methods outdoors, this is the Available from the Androma guide to acquire the skills Edition : needed. www.androma.net ISBN 3-00-013031-4

Feuer by a Swiss author 2004 A great guide about the related Soft cover. 192 pages topic of match holders (vestas). English Check amazon.com ISBN 0-88740-633-5

Match Holders by Denis Alsford 1994 A well made guide to compacts Soft cover. 163 pages and smoking accessories, English including lighters. Check amazon.com This is not a specific book for ISBN 0-88740-371-9 lighter collectors but I personally discovered a so far unknown advertisement of a Lincoln Automatic lighter in this book. – Surprise.

Compacts and Smoking Accessories by Roseann Ettinger 1991 A well illustrated guide to all Soft cover. 201 pages kinds of smoking collectibles. English Check amazon.com ISBN 0-89538-070-6

Smoking Collectibles by Neil S. Wood 1994 This is a marvelous book with Soft cover. 124 pages great illustrations and English information about rare and Check amazon.com sometimes bizarre Tobacco ISBN 0-8118-0119-5 Accoutrements such as lighters.

Smokerama by Philip Collins 1992