A Field Guide to Sheaffer's Pencils - INDIE BOOK AWARD WINNER
A FIeld Guide to Sheaffer's Pencils has won several independent book awards:
2023 Next Generation Indie Book Awards - Gold Medal Winner in general nonfiction, and also named Finalist in both the Coffee Table/Photography and the Specialty/Novelty Book categories.
2024 IBPA Ben Franklin Awards - Silver Award Winner, Craft & Hobby/Home & Garden.
2024 Best Indie Book Award (BIBA) - Winner, History
A FIeld Guide to Sheaffer's Pencils thoroughly examines the history and taxonomy of pencils made by the W.A. Sheaffer Pen Company, presented in unprecedented detail by award-winning author Jonathan Veley with the assistance of several of the world's leading experts in Sheaffer writing instruments. Lavish illustrations allow collectors to identify models, variations, and dates of production for nearly every pencil Sheaffer made, from the earliest "Sharp Point" pencils of 1917 through the sale of the company in 1966, opening up the microcosm of these beautiful and functional works of art for the first time.
Hardbound, 198 pages. ISBN 978-1-955791-58-8.