Norah Wellings
Norah Wellings

Author: Gillian Trotter

Publisher:

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780875886510

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Thirty-two years of Norah Wellings' English cloth dolls and soft toys will come to life in vivid colour photographs complete with important identification information. The history of The Victoria Toy Works Factory and the biographies of the founders -- Norah Wellings and her brother, Leonard, are incorporated in this long awaited research volume. The book romances the characters created by the legendary Norah Wellings including details on how they were made. Storage tips and other useful information for the collector is detailed in the book.

Black Dolls
Black Dolls

Author: Debbie Behan Garrett

Publisher: Debbie Behan Garrett

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 450

ISBN-13: 0615242022

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Collectors and non-collectors will experience the passion for collecting dolls in Ms. Garrett's second, FULL COLOR, black-doll reference book, which is a comprehensive celebration with up-to-date values of over 1000 vintage-to-modern black dolls. Doll genres celebrated, referenced, and valued include early dolls and memorabilia, cloth, fashion, manufactured, artist, one-of-a-kind, celebrity, and paper dolls. `A to Z Tips on Collecting,¿ `Doll Creativity,¿ and loads of `Added Extras¿ will entertain, enlighten, excite, and encourage the most discriminating collector. Readers will experience five years of the author's continuous and extensive doll research combined with nearly 20 years of doll-collecting experience. Black Dolls: A Comprehensive Guide to Celebrating, Collecting, and Experiencing the Passion, is an informative, must-have reference for any doll collector¿s library.

The Ultimate Doll Book
The Ultimate Doll Book

Author: Caroline Georgina Goodfellow

Publisher: MetroBooks (NY)

Published: 2001-10

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781586632342

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A collection of more than 400 dolls spanning two centuries. Each doll shown in original clothes or period costumes. Advice on care and collecting.

The Definitive Guide to Collecting Black Dolls
The Definitive Guide to Collecting Black Dolls

Author: Debbie Behan Garrett

Publisher: Debbie Behan Garrett

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 9780875886534

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Collectors will delight in acquiring the first and only Black dolls book that is completely published in Full Color! Author Debbie Garrett has written an extensive book of reference on vintage, modern, fashion and artist Black dolls. Featured in this book are Black dolls made from cloth, bisque, celluloid, composition, rubber, wood, and hard plastic. Fashion dolls, modern artist dolls and other doll categories are covered. This long overdue, insightful book includes a price guide and tips.

Dolls - A Guide for Collectors
Dolls - A Guide for Collectors

Author: Clara Hallard Fawcett

Publisher: Read Books Ltd

Published: 2016-12-19

Total Pages: 314

ISBN-13: 1473346894

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This vintage book contains comprehensive guide to collecting dolls, containing information on the history of dolls, buying and selling, restoration, and a much more. Profusely illustrated and full of interesting information, "Dolls - A Guide for Collectors" constitutes a timeless resource for doll enthusiasts and is not to be missed by modern collectors. Contents include: "What is a Doll", "On Collecting Dolls-Where to Buy, What to Pay, and Dolls Worth Collecting", "Early Toy Dolls", "Dolls of the Nineteenth Century", "China-Headed Dolls and their Marks", "Bidque Dolls and their Marks", "Dolls of Papier Mache and Composition", "Hand-made Dolls", "The Christmas Crib", "The Cloth Doll", et cetera. Many vintage books such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive. We are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern edition complete with a specially commissioned new introduction on dolls.

Hello Girls & Boys!
Hello Girls & Boys!

Author: David Veart

Publisher: Auckland University Press

Published: 2015-02-01

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 1775587630

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Toys are fun—but they are also serious business, as David Veart makes clear in this remarkable story of New Zealanders and their toys from Maori voyagers to 21st-century gamers. Deploying the tools of archaeology and oral history, Veart digs through a few centuries of pocket knives and plasticine to take us deep into the childhoods of Aotearoa. His story explores how people made their fun on the far side of the ocean—the Maori and Pakeha learned knucklebones from each other; young Aucklanders established the largest Meccano club in the world; and Fun Ho!, Torro, Lincoln International, and Luvme helped to build a successful local toy industry under the shade of import protection. Hello Girls & Boys! covers the crazes and collecting, playtimes and preoccupations of big and little New Zealand kids for generations. With its memories of knucklebones and double happys, golliwogs and tin canoes, marbles and Meccano, Tonka trucks and Buzzy Bees, this is a seriously fun New Zealand toy story.

Famous Character Dolls
Famous Character Dolls

Author: Susan Brewer

Publisher: Casemate Publishers

Published: 2013-08-19

Total Pages: 403

ISBN-13: 1783376228

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Part of the popular Famous series, Famous Dolls celebrates dolls in film, TV, cartoons, books, comics and comic strips, as well as toys such as Hamble in Playschool. It also explores the world of celebrity dolls including stars such as Shirley Temple and Mae West, pop star dolls including Michael Jackson and Cher, and dolls representing royalty. Written by leading doll expert, Susan Brewer, the author of British Dolls in the 1950s and British Dolls in the 1960s, the book starts with a series of essays setting dolls in context and exploring their role in popular culture. The main part of the book is an impressive A-Z of famous dolls, with symbols to show in which field they became famous (e.g. cartoons, toys or comic strips). The stories behind each of the dolls are told, including the tragic tale of Raggedy Ann and how a little girl inspired one of the most iconic character dolls of all time. A must-buy book for everyone who has ever own or collected dolls or is interested in popular culture.Did you know? The author of Raggedy Ann, Johnny Gruelle, was a vehement anti-vaccination campaigner after his young daughter died when she was vaccinated at school without his consent Angela Rippon created the Victoria Plum doll series based on a plum tree in her garden Holly Hobbie is an author and illustrator who named the famous patchwork-wearing little girl after her. It became a popular doll in the 1970s

8th Blue Book of Dolls and Values
8th Blue Book of Dolls and Values

Author: Jan Foulke

Publisher: Hobby House Press

Published: 1987-10

Total Pages: 412

ISBN-13: 9780875883175

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Each collectible or antique doll is priced and identified by maker, size, country of origin, marks, and other details.

Tribal Fantasies
Tribal Fantasies

Author: J. Mackay

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2012-12-28

Total Pages: 266

ISBN-13: 1137318813

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This transnational collection discusses the use of Native American imagery in twentieth and twenty-first-century European culture. With examples ranging from Irish oral myth, through the pop image of Indians promulgated in pornography, to the philosophical appropriations of Ernst Bloch or the European far right, contributors illustrate the legend of "the Indian." Drawing on American Indian literary nationalism, postcolonialism, and transnational theories, essays demonstrate a complex nexus of power relations that seemingly allows European culture to build its own Native images, and ask what effect this has on the current treatment of indigenous peoples.