Classic Country Toys
Classic Country Toys

Author: Bruce Wexler

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2022-05-03

Total Pages: 504

ISBN-13: 1510756957

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A fascinating collection of classic country toys. In Classic Country Toys, Bruce Wexler takes us all on a trip down memory lane, and beyond, by providing an illustrated history of playthings with a country theme from 1880 to the present day. Here in clear, detailed color photographs are over 150 important landmark toys of all kinds—from Marx farm trucks, Buddy-L fire trucks, Tonka pickups, Howdy Doody dolls, Cabbage Patch Kids, Red Ryder BB guns, Fanner cap pistols, Tootsietoy cars, and Woodhaven and Ertl farm machinery through to modern classics like Dukes of Hazzard action figures and Woody from Toy Story. Through professional photography, each toy is featured in close-up detail to highlight its most special qualities, including the inventive ways the toys' young owners used them. All toys, from the collection of the World's Largest Toy Museum in Branson, Missouri, are guaranteed to help us recapture a cherished piece of childhood. At once a tribute to America's rural roots and a joyful reminder of how much one doll or toy can matter, this fascinating illustrated history will warm the hearts of toy-lovers young and old.

Classic Country Toys
Classic Country Toys

Author: Bruce Wexler

Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing Inc.

Published: 2009-11

Total Pages: 168

ISBN-13: 9781602397583

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150 beloved toys--from Woodhaven tin tractors to the Red Ryder BB gun to Woody from Toy...

Timeless Toys
Timeless Toys

Author: Tim Walsh

Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing

Published: 2005-10

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 0740755714

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The book Why Didn't I Think of That! includes the passage "If a toy has magic, when people see it they say, 'Oooh! What is that?' . . . It appeals to the kid in everybody." That same kind of magic captures "the kid in everybody" when they pick up Timeless Toys: Classic Toys and the Playmakers Who Created Them. Timeless Toys represents one of the finest documentaries and displays of modern toys ever written. Author Tim Walsh, a successful toy inventor himself, reveals a world of commerce, toys, and wonder that is equally fun, fascinating, and nostalgic. Readers of every age and background will find it impossible to pick up this book, turn a few pages, and not become spellbound by its insightful stories and the personal memories that the text and 420 brilliantly colored photographs bring forth. Slinky, Lego, Tonka trucks, Monopoly, Big Wheel, Frisbee, Hula Hoop, Super Ball, Scrabble, Barbie, Radio Flyer Wagons: All of these and many, many more are featured in this fascinating tome, along with the toys' histories, insider profiles, and rare interviews with toy industry icons. It's simply magic!

Classic Country
Classic Country

Author: Charles K. Wolfe

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2002-05-03

Total Pages: 348

ISBN-13: 1135957347

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Now for the first time, country music authority Charles K. Wolfe gathers together his profiles of 50 legends of country music, including Bill Monroe, Lefty Frizzell, and Kitty Wells.

That Old Country Music
That Old Country Music

Author: Kevin Barry

Publisher: Anchor

Published: 2021-01-12

Total Pages: 108

ISBN-13: 0385540345

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A collection of short stories of rural Ireland in the classic Irish mode: full of love (and sex), melancholy and magic, bedecked in some of the most gorgeous prose being written today—from the author of the wildly acclaimed Night Boat to Tangier. With three novels and two short story collections published, Kevin Barry has steadily established his stature as one of the finest writers not just in Ireland but in the English language. All of his prodigious gifts of language, character, and setting in these eleven exquisite stories transport the reader to an Ireland both timeless and recognizably modern. Shot through with dark humor and the uncanny power of the primal and unchanging Irish landscape, the stories in That Old Country Music represent some of the finest fiction being written today.

Classic Country Estates of Lake Forest
Classic Country Estates of Lake Forest

Author: Kim Coventry

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 446

ISBN-13: 9780393730999

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On Lake Michigan's North Shore, an extraordinary group of cosmopolitan and wealthy clients commissioned havens from the city's bustle during the Gilded Age.

Litchfield Style
Litchfield Style

Author: Annie Kelly

Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 174

ISBN-13: 9780847835775

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Features the decorative interiors and gardens of homes in Litchfield County, Connectinut, which include farmhouses and Federal style buildings.

I WON'T!
I WON'T!

Author: Gina Wilkins

Publisher: Harlequin

Published: 2012-07-16

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 1459286251

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I Do Maddie Carmichael had always been levelheaded. But while on vacation, she'd been swept off her feet by sexy Case Brannigan. Before she knew it, she was standing at the altar, waiting. And waiting…. I Don't Case Brannigan, ex-DEA officer, longed to settle down. So, finding a woman like Maddie was a dream come true. That is, until he was called away on the day of his wedding for one last mission…. I Won't Six months later, Case arrives in town to claim his fiancée. But the Maddie he'd known has disappeared. In her place is a temptress—one who's making it plain she wants nothing to do with him. What happened to the sweet girl he fell in love with? And why is he finding the new Maddie even harder to resist?