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Australian Book Retailer of the Year 2021
Jan Lindenberger
With over 440 color photos, this easy-to-use handbook and price guide is designed to be taken into the field. It will be an invaluable aid at flea markets, yard sales…
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Over 400 color photos of common household and gift objects popular in the 1950s and ‘60s are presented with concise descriptions and a current value for each piece. In addition…
From Pinocchio to Kermit the Frog and Indian stick figures to Jerry Mahoney puppets, these entertainers have educated generations. They bring back memories of childhood, early days of television and…
A wonderful collection of Care Bears and their Care Bear Cousinsr has been gathered and iIlustrated with color photos showing the variety and their current market values. This provides a…
Smurf collectibles are cataloged with color photos, useful information, and current market values. Jewelry, books, figurines, toys, games, puzzles, clothing, and paper products are among these Smurf items illustrated in…
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The endearing character, Snoopy, has found his way onto literally thousands of objects from greeting cards to stuffed animals, pyjamas to tableware. He has also spawned a very large and…
Raggedy Ann and Andy continue to be among the most treasured of all dolls. Children everywhere have fallen in love with these rag dolls and cherished them through adulthood. And…
In 1983, Cabbage Patch Kids dolls inspired a nationwide craze inviting children to adopt their very own Kid. Of course, parenthood is a real responsibility–a new baby needs toys, clothing…
Black memorabilia is still one of the hottest areas of collecting today. Hundreds of kitchen items, wall pockets, mammy memos, salt and peppers, cookie jars, advertising, household goods, and ephemera…
Troll toys bring impish smiles, good luck, and wild hairdos into our homes and their various shapes and sizes make them popular to collect. Current prices and color photography in…
Since 1991, the Rugrats*r gang has pusued hilarious adventures on television and their movie debut lauched them into stardom. Here the toys and merchandise featuring Rugrats are studied, including dolls…
A field guide for the collector of vintage plastic household objects: kitchen items, jewelry, radios, flooring, car parts, toys, and furniture. Over 500 items illustrated in color with descriptions and…
Filled with interesting facts, this book gives insight to the evolution of ashtrays and explains how they became such hot collectibles. Over 460 color photos of unusual ashtrays and companion…
This guide is a must have for all Garfield*t fans and avid collectors. The book is filled with hundreds of colorful pictures of Garfield collectible items, fun facts, and more!
Kitsch for the kitchen is cool and this book covers a golden era for culinary design. Enter and enjoy gadgets and glasses, table accessories and textiles, furniture and fruit bowls…
New lamp styles represent one of the offbeat fruits of the distinct American postwar culture. Revisit lamps we loved to hate, like amoeba, starburst, atomic, the indomitable lava lamps, figural…
An avid group of loyal collectors, spanning generations and races, can’t get enough of these rare and quirky antiques. Now in its fourth edition, this indispensable field guide provides many…
Hundreds of once-common kitchen objects dating from 1890 to the 1970s all are illustrated in color with vital information and current market values. This is a convenient and useful field…
Explores the use of Black images in advertising, home decoration, office decor, and restaurant themes. Everyday objects in 700 color photos with value guide.
These are vintage fashions that can be worn and enjoyed every day. Ranging from the formal to the whimsical, the chic tailored suits of the 1940s to the free-style fashions…
Jan Lindenberger,Dana Cain
Major toy horse figure manufacturers Breyer, Hartland Plastics, Hagen Renaker, Marx, and more have produced this wide and popular range of horse collectibles. This book corrals examples from around the…
Jan Lindenberger,Joyce Spontak
In 1961, after 55 years of the family-style leadership of a private company, Planters Nut and Chocolate Company was acquired by Standard Brands, but continues to produce a great number…
Jan Lindenberger,Jean Rosenthal
Explores liberating designs that the age of plastics has brought to kitchen items, toys, furniture, appliances, jewelry, and more. Over 350 items are illustrated in full color with concise descriptions.
Jan Lindenberger,Joel Martone
The Smurf character collectibles shown here include books, movies, figurines, toys, games, puzzles, clothing, paper products and many other items bearing the Smurf images. They are fun to own.
Jan Lindenberger,Cher Porges
Charles Schulz’s Peanuts comic strip characters, Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Linus, Woodstock, Lucy, Sally and others, have spawned hundreds of products and mementoes that are chronicled here in 590 color photographs…
Attention Peanuts Gang lovers! Here is a huge volume of treasures from our favorite crowd of kids. Over 600 color photos of Peanut-phernalia appear, most not seen in any other…
Jan Lindenberger,Jennifer Bowles
The Strawberry Shortcake character was originally a greeting card design by American Greetings, Corp. but this sweet-smelling little girl and her many-flavored friends became playmates of children everywhere through the…
Hundreds of Strawberry Shortcake doll items spread a sweet optimism to little girls through the 1980s. Today, many continue to treasure this memorablia that celebrates friendship and kindness. Resurfacing on…
The innovative advertising for Planters Peanuts from 1906 to 1961 has produced a large assortment of items which advertising collectors want to see, know what it is, and what it…
Snoopy’s image has appeared on thousands of items in the half-century since he was created by Charles M. Schulz in 1950. Here is Snoopy on household items, school supplies, books…
Jan Lindenberger,Judy Morris
This work spans the Cabbage Patch Kid collecting phenomena of the 1980s with chapters on Coleco Kids, Toddlers, Babies, and Premies, foreign mass-produced dolls, as well as the inclusion of…
A generation of clothing, toys, games, teen magazines, and furniture document everyday life in the 1950s to ‘70s. Styles that have been eclipsed by time are frozen here in color…
Picking up where the authors’ first encyclopedia (The 1980s) left off, this marvelous book follows the Cabbage Patch Kids license through the 1990s to show the full line of Kids…
The newer items of Planters memorabilia, after the company was acquired by Standard Brands, are presented here, including those surrounding its involvement in auto racing and golf tournaments and the…
That happy go lucky, boy’s best friend Snoopyr is recognized by people around the world. From his joyous dance to his brave conflict with the Red Baron he embodies what…
An international group of historians present case studies on the use and types of physical violence in the USSR and its European satellite states after the death of Joseph Stalin…
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