Collecting Cigarette & Trade Cards by Gordon Howsden (1995, Paperback)

This is the best cigarette card book I've read. It covers the history of cigarette cards and trading cards, the printing processes and the tobacco manufacturers who issued the cards. It is beautifully illustrated, with 100s of full size scans of cards. It's definitely a book that I continually dip into. It even provides a rough guide to the values of cards, although Murray's Cigarette Card Values or the LCC version are better for this.