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Books About Snow GlobesYou won't find many books about snow globes on the market. We've managed to find only three - details of these books follow, including reviews.
Snow Globes: The Collector's Guide to Selecting, Displaying, and Restoring Snow Globes Connie A. Moore This book takes us through an entertaining tour of our past by showing us the domes found on the side of the highways.. Fantastic pictures of some more common and a few rare domes spark memories of hot summers and family excursions. Also contained are how domes are made, and what to do if you have a broken dome (don't throw it out!!) If you love these little plastic wonders, or just want a look at a more unusual collectible, check out this book.
Lelie Carnot Another one of those books that feature items, which if seen individually, would not be too interesting but put 350 of them in a neat square, well printed, all color book and they come alive. Each dome has a page to itself with a caption. Most of the objects inside the domes seem pretty tacky to me, produced as they are for the downmarket tourist trade but near the end of the book there are several advertising domes that look as if their contents have had some thought given to them, M&Ms and the Golden Arches of McDonalds look pretty cool surrounded by snow. The back of the book has a bibliography, web sites (naturally) and index.Books about snowdomes are pretty sparse, only three are listed in the bibliography, the one I have is 'Snowdomes' by Nancy McMichael, this has a better history than the Carnot book and a more flamboyant presentation and it has a picture of a larger-than-life dome on the front cover whose globe area is actually plastic with a liquid and white flakes inside, it must have been a bookbinder's nightmare to produce. Flammarion, the French publishers of Snowdomes also have other books in their Collectible series, I have one on wristwatches and another on pocket knives and as they are all the same square shape they do look good on a bookshelf. All I need now are Collectible books on jukeboxes, QSL cards, model Greyhound buses, pin-up playing cards, Santa Claus, TV station test cards and anything to do with the 1939 New York World's Fair!
Nancy McMichael This book contains stunning photos and beautiful examples of "americana" gone worldwide. Remember when you picked these up as a kid?? Unfortunately in our modern age, these momentos of years by gone are diminishing into the past. Nancy gives us a delightful look into something so simple that we may have forgotton.A perfect "coffeetable" book to strike up conversations of the past and a "must have" for current collectors!!
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