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Slot
Machine Buyer's Handbook (2nd Edition): The smart buyer is a knowledgeable
buyer, and this amazing book tells it like it is. Every conceivable aspect of
buying a slot machine is covered in depth. Strong and weak points of specific
makes and models of slot machines, both old and new, are brought out and fully
explained. The entire range of collectible slot machines is spanned from the
earliest antiques to the hottest new casino models. Many are illustrated.
Coverage includes the following, and much ,much more: How and where to find the
best buys - How to select a slot machine that's best for you - How to determine
a slot machine's condition - Which machines should be avoided - Specific models'
performance history - Parts availability for various makes and models - Tricks
used by fast buck artists to hide defects - Counterfeit machines and how to spot
them - Foreign slot machines and how to spot them - Originality vs. value - How
to detect non-original parts - Slot machine buyer's resource directory - What's
legal and where - Which casino style slots are best for home use - Slot machine
payout statistics - Buyer's comparison of over 950 slot machines - How slot
machines work: mechanical, electric and the latest modern microprocessor types.
With the Slot Machine Buyer's Handbook you'll learn how to buy
"smart" and save a bundle. This book not only answers questions that
immediately come to mind, but will also help prospective buyers gain the
expertise and self-confidence that would otherwise be acquired only through
years of experience. Avoiding just one costly mistake in the school of hard
knocks will recover the cost of this book many times over. 100 photographs,
charts, and glossary. 434 pages. 5 7/17" x 8 7/16", perfect bound with
full-color, plastic-coated soft cover.
Blue
Book Slot Machine Price Guide: If your looking for slot machines, you need
two things: an identification book and a price guide. Eighteen years of research
is presented in this pocket sized price guide. Data has been obtained from many
resources - sales, shows, auctions, collectors and dealers. This fourth edition
contains alphabetical listings (by manufacturer) for nearly 2,850 slot machines
and payout gambling devices from over 200 manufacturers - from 1893 to 1997.
Each entry is accompanied by five prices, from brand new, out-of-the-box to
clobbered and barely workable. Nearly every entry includes the machine's known
nicknames, date of introduction, rarity, and other pertinent comments. This is
the 1997-1998 edition. The
Blue Book Slot Machine Price Guide has 368 fact filled pages, is fully
indexed, measures 4" x 7/18", and is perfect bound with an
attractive blue cover.
Collector's
Treasury Of Antique Slot Machines From Contemporary Advertising: While not
pretending to provide exhaustive coverage of the antique slot machine, this 480
page volume does give a superb sampling of the advertising that appeared in The
Billboard, a magazine long rated as the number one trade publication of the
coin machine industry. Taken from issues dating over a period of 25 years,
advertisements for such landmark machines as the 1937 Mills MELON BELL, the
BALLY BELL and BALLY DOUBLE BELL of later vintage are included in the book's
chronological arrangement, as are some devices that are to be found only in the
ads, never having made it to production. As an identification guide, this book
offers the most bang for the buck! Described accurately by the author as a
"primary source book," Collector's Treasury Of Antique Slot Machines
From Contemporary Advertising must be called gigantic - with 480 picture-filled
pages. This one-of-a-kind book measures 6 1/4" x 9 1/4", and is hard
bound with brown leather-like, foil stamped covering.
Mills Of The Thirties Operator's Companion: This is the first in the Dan
Post "Yesteryear Series", and contains reproductions of product
brochures, service literature and advertisements, accompanied by a running
narrative by the author to lead the reader through this exciting decade in the
Mills Novelty Company's existence. For the person looking for the Mills Novelty
Company's contribution to the "Golden Age Of Slot Machines," this is
the hands-down definitive book. 192 pages contained in a hardcover, the book
measures 6 1/4" x 9 1/4" with a metallic red-foil stamped cover. 
Mills Of The Forties Operator's Companion: Like its predecessor, this book
by Dan Post, covers a decade in the history of the Mills Novelty Company, with
special attention paid to its slot machine products. The period marked a change
in the company's operations, as World War II saw a name change to Mills
Industries Incorporated, and then, for its slot machine division after the war,
the Bell-O-Matic Corporation, and the decline of slot machine production in the
latter half of the Forties, as political jurisdictions began to legislate
against various forms of gaming. This book is beautifully printed, with black
and white illustrations reproduced with exceptional care. It measures 6
1/4" x 9 1/4", has a blue embossed hardcover. 
Watling Operator's Companion: The third Volume of the series
by Dan Post contains the history of the Watling Company and its products with a
narrative that is both informative and interesting, covering not only the
account of the company's activities, but the personal activities of company
founder Watling and his sons (although some of the information may well be
apocryphal). This volume is superbly printed in black and white, with meticulous
attention paid to reproduction of the illustrations. Measuring 6 1/4" x 9
1/4", this hardcover book contains 192 pages, and features a cream-colored
cover with gold-foil stamped title and illustration. 
For
Amusement Only: This combination book by Thomas Gustwiller covers a wide
range of coin-operated amusement and gambling devices - about 500 of them. For Amusement Only is a handy pictorial reference guide for the rare and
unusual machines that collectors have heard about, but have seldom seen.
Impressive black and white photographs of machines range from single-wheel
counter and floor-model slot and card machines to common two and three-reel
models. And in between there are cast iron payout and cigar (card) machines,
coin flips and drops, horse race and dice games, roulette and spinner games and
many miscellaneous devices. Photographs average three to the page and each is accompanied by a specification
block listing the name, manufacturer, date, estimated value, rarity factor and
appropriate comments. As a bonus, For Amusement Only includes a machine
listing originally compiled by Coin Machine Journal and a pictorial
listing of the "Most Wanted Unfound Machines." Both are invaluable
sources for historical reference. It is fully indexed, contains 248 pages,
measures 8 3/4" x 11 1/4", and has a full-color plastic-coated hardcover.
Mills Bell Machine Service
Parts Price List With Supplement Parts And Service Manual:
Actually two
publications in one, this Mills HI-TOP booklet will round out your HI-TOP paper
collection. This reprint was originally published in 1958, and covers all
three-reel and four-reel machines, including the little-known four-reel FOUR
CROWN machine with art deco styling. Eleven photographs and over a thousand
parts with part name, number and price are listed. 11 Photographs, 20 pages. 8 1/2" x 11", attractive tan two-color
cover, saddle-stitched.
Pace
Parts List & Service Manual: This booklet was originally issued in 1937 by
the Pace Manufacturing Company of Chicago, the original manufacturers of the
Pace slot machine. It contains a special photo section showing the ALL-STAR
COMET, ALL-STAR SIDE VENDOR, ALL-STAR GOLD AWARD BELL, COMET FRONT VENDOR,
DEFERRED-PAY FRONT VENDER, ROYAL COMET and the ARISTO scale. This authentic
reproduction is filled with over a thousand pictured parts, all identified and
priced (1937 prices)! 40 pages, 5 1/2" x 8 1/2".
Slot
Machines - America's Favorite Gaming Device (6th Edition): Updated and recompiled sixth
edition. Join Charles Fey, the
inventor of the automatic-payout three-reel slot machine, as he introduces it in
San Francisco in 1898. You will move with him - and his son, Edmund - through
the Roaring Twenties and Prohibition, through the years of the Great Depression,
and into today. Chronicled by Marshall Fey, the grandson of Charles Fey and son of Edmund Fey,
the reader is treated to first-hand accounts of slot machines as they fit into
each chapter of our nation's history. Perhaps best described as a "pictorial" book, Slot Machines
belongs on the bookshelf of the serious collector and the coffee table of the
hobbyist. Slot Machines features a printed and plastic-coated hardcover, measures 9
1/4" x 12 1/2", contains 256 pages, 504 full color illustrations and
over 125 additional illustrations.
Handbook
Of Slot Machine Reel Strips: There has never been a published book of slot
machine reel strip combinations with complete payout statistics - until now.
This book is recommended to historians, collectors, enthusiasts and students.
The heart of the Handbook consists of over 200 computer-generated charts
which mathematically analyze various combinations of old factory-standard reel
strips. Also included are various old casino combinations and patched versions,
requiring simple punching of the discs on the lemon symbols in order to raise
the payout percentages. The range is from 10 stops to 38 stops, from two reels
to four; it's all here! The charts completely list the symbols in order of
appearance on the strips, give the manufacturer's identification number (when
available), and give detailed symbol-by-symbol payout percentages as well as
overall payout percentages. With this book you will be able to establish a
simple "Layout Code" for your machine's reel strips. This will permit
you to quickly and easily look up this Layout Code in the Handbook and
learn what you have probably already asked yourself: "What does it
pay?" If you are mathematically inclined, there is a complete chapter on
how to formulate equations for the computation of a slot machine's payout
statistics. Other chapters explain how the charts were devised, with a detailed
explanation, containing an example, on how to use the charts. The Handbook
contains 296 pages, measures 5 1/2" x 8 1/2", and is perfect bound
with a plastic-coated leather-like soft cover.
1910
Mills Novelty Company reprint, with Description of Machines supplement:
Here’s a very well reproduced catalog from Ira Warren. Printed in full color,
the main catalog illustrates the arcade and slot machines offered from the Mills
Novelty Company at the time. What makes the catalog especially useful is the
supplemental Description of Machines. Each machine is described as to how it
operates and its specifications. A must have for collectors of early Mills
machines. Color catalog, 32 pages tri-fold, self-cover, 5 ½” x 10 ½”;
supplement, self-cover, 36 pages, 4 ¼” x 7 ½”.