These are truly reference guides that you can slip into your pocket for jaunts to the flea market. In the "Planes" book, Blanchard lists a general range of current market values, production notes and common variations for virtually every style of plane ever made by Stanley Tools up until the late 1950s. The "Rules, Levels & Other Tools" book has the same information for levels, chisels, vises and more.
Each is softcover, 3-1/2" x 4-3/4". "Planes" is 230 pages with black-and-white photographs, published in 2006. "Rules" is 290 pages with color photographs, published in 2007.