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How To Find, Recognize, Buy, Collect, And Sell The Cutouts Of Two Centuries By Anne Tolstoi Wallach Photographs by Peter Bosch New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, (1982). First edition, first printing. Contains publisher's first printing number code sequence 1 through 10. Luxurious production with text and artwork printed on quality heavy-coated stock. A fully illustrated (with over 400 pictures, including a generous portion in color), panoramic presentation of the history (from their first appearance in France in the 1780s) and collecting the most ephemeral of children's playthings. A marvelous history of hairstyles, costumes and fashions, and a delightful doll collectible guide. Fascinating and useful. Fine in textured brown boards with gilt embossed titles to the spine; in a fine dust jacket; original 'introductory price' $24.95 and regular price of $29.95, both still intact to the front inner flap. Quarto; 164 pages; bibliography; index. FREE SHIPPING TO THE USA. PLEASE VIEW FOR MORE GREAT FIRST EDITION BOOKS THANKS! |