I was looking at jewelry books on Amazon and found a bunch that I think would make good gifts for an aspiring jeweler. Here are a few:

Marketing and Selling Your Handmade Jewelry: The Complete Guide to Turning Your Passion into Profit by Vicki Lareau sounds like a great book for anyone wanting to go from hobbyist to professional jewelry maker.

Bead On A Wire: Making Handcrafted Wire and Beaded Jewelry by Sharilyn Miller. Sharilyn is a wire jewelry teacher with a great reputation – although I haven’t read this book, I’ve heard wonderful things about it.

500 Earrings: New Directions in Contemporary Jewelry (Lark Jewellery) is a book that is all pictures – 500 to be exact, all of earrings in various styles by hundreds of different jewelers. I haven’t had a chance to see it yet, but I have a 500 Beaded Objects and 1000 Rings from the same series, and they are great if what you really want is a lot of inspiring pictures of jewelry, rather than actual instruction.

All Wired Up: Wire Techniques for the Beadworker and Jewelry Maker (Beadwork How-To series) by Mark Lareau. A classic book on making jewelry with wire.