THE ART OF BUYING ART, 2ND EDITION by Alan Bamberger (LTB Gordonsart Inc., 2007, 283 pages), enlarged and updated, is the best and easiest-to-understand book on how to buy, sell, price, evaluate, appraise, and collect artwork for art buyers and collectors-- no previous knowledge about art or the art business necessary. Topics include how to research and evaluate art prices like a dealer or appraiser, how to focus your art collecting, how to spot fakes and forgeries, how to buy art at online auctions, how to negotiate for art, how to buy directly from artists, how to buy fixed-price art online, how to tell the difference between an original and a reproduction, and much much more.

Bernard Ewell, Senior Member of the American Society of Appraisers calls THE ART OF BUYING ART "the very best book on the subject ever published" in a review in Personal Property Journal, the trade publication of the American Society of Appraisers. Ewell teaches, lectures and writes about how to appraise art, and is an expert on the works of Salvador Dali. The American Society of Appraisers is the most respected appraiser organization in the country.