All collections are purchased from private collectors who understand and confirm that their collection meets the necessary high standards. If it was stored in a basement and "smells funny" they must admit it!

Upon arrival the literature is sorted and each item is examined for damage and pages are counted. All items must be in excellent condition. If it has minor problems, but is a rare and desirable piece, the flaw is noted.

Those items meeting these requirements then go to the processor who examines it a second time while cataloging it for inventory, submits it to the photographer and has the programmer place it on the web site.

When the customer places their order for a brochure, book, dealer album, manual, etc., the packer will again review each item for quality and verify the correctness of the order.

MAH depends on repeat business. Each satisfied customer has the potential for making additional purchases and for referring their friends. One error can bring that relationship to an end.

Good literature can command a good price while flawed literature cannot.

Most collectors expect consistently nice literature and MAH caters to those collectors.

While most literature dealers must sell all of the literature they purchase, MAH has a ready market of swapmeet vendors, eBay sellers and other dealers for their rejected items.

MAH's reputation is its greatest asset for new customers. Another dealer once wrote that his literature was "McLellan quality". What a nice compliment but that sent all his customers to MAH.