Mac,
For a good "history lesson" in Lugers and the early days of collecting in the USA, the old books by Harry Jones (Luger Variations) and Fred Datig (The Luger Pistol) are wonderful.
Sure some of the info. is dated and not correct in year 2007 terms, but you get a lot of history and basic Luger facts. Back in the late 1950's and early 1960's...these authors can be criticized for getting "it wrong"...but even 45-50 years laters, I am amazed how much of their work they got right.
I also like the John Walter books (especially the one titled "The Luger Book").
Once you get a feel of which era or model of Luger you want to start out with, then the more recent books works specific to that area of collecting interest would help i.e. Kenyon, Bobba (Swiss lugers), Gibson (HK lugers), Still (Imperial, Weimar, and WWII lugers), Reese, Martins/de Vries (Dutch lugers), etc.
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