Discover America's treasures with the book based on Antiques Roadshow, PBS' most watched series. An introductory guide to antiques and collectibles, it covers it all: furniture, estate jewlery, American primitive painting, quilts, Canton porcelain, handmade tools, tin-plate toys, silver, paperweights, Waterford crystal, clocks and wristwatches and even a $35,000 Confederate sword.

CarolPrisant is the New York editor of The World of Interiors and writes about antiques and collectibles for Martha Stewart Living, House Beautiful, New York, and other magazines.