Book jacket faded with some shelf wear and holes 1962, 269 pages second printing Often called the "Spoon Bible", this book is indispensable to advanced and beginning collector alike. Covering, as it does, the period when American souvenir spoons were in their heyday, it contains 288 pages crammed with illustrations of hundreds of spoons together with copious informative, entertaining and historical notes about each. A total of 392 different designs of souvenir spoons are described and shown, each one commemorative of American people, places and events. In fact these spoons present a panorama of American history and American life. Early explorers, the pioneers, great Indian Chiefs, the Wars, Presi-dents, statesmen, great divines-all are depicted. Also included are noted writers and their fictional heroes, disasters, industries, outstanding events, the the-atre, and even a comic figure or two. Two entirely new indices were com-piled-one for illustrations, the other for text-which provide an easy and fast method for the identification of spoons.