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	Phonograph Dolls and Toys by Joan & Robin Rolfs - 0960646663 - 0960646663 Renowned collectors Joan and Robin Rolfs have created a wonderful new collectors guide to the fascinating world of talking dolls and children's toys. The full spectrum of the hobby is presented for the first time in this elegant book. From the first talking dolls by Edison to the modern talking dolls of today, Phonograph Dolls and Toys describes hundreds of collectible talking dolls and toys. Phonograph Dolls and Toys should receive a high grade for its photographs. Each item h... $22.50     View Details Add To Cart
	Phonograph Dolls and Toys by Joan & Robin Rolfs - 0960646663 - 0960646663 Renowned collectors Joan and Robin Rolfs have created a wonderful new collectors guide to the fascinating world of talking dolls and children's toys. The full spectrum of the hobby is presented for the first time in this elegant book. From the first talking dolls by Edison to the modern talking dolls of today, Phonograph Dolls and Toys describes hundreds of collectible talking dolls and toys. Phonograph Dolls and Toys should receive a high grade for its photographs. Each item h... $22.50     View Details Add To Cart
	Edison Blue Amberol Recordings 1915 - 1929 by Ronald Dethlefson - 0960646647 - 0960646647 Ronald Dethlefson's carefully researched two volume study of the development of Edison s Finest Cylinder Recordings was out of print for many years. Demand was such that the set has been reprinted. This listing is for the second volume covering the years 1915-1929. Included with the comprehensive lists of recordings are many of the original record slips and supplements, information about the performers including a photo gallery and many marketing photographs, Grand Opera recordings, live and ... $39.95     View Details Add To Cart
	Edison Blue Amberol Recordings 1915 - 1929 by Ronald Dethlefson - 0960646647 - 0960646647 Ronald Dethlefson's carefully researched two volume study of the development of Edison s Finest Cylinder Recordings was out of print for many years. Demand was such that the set has been reprinted. This listing is for the second volume covering the years 1915-1929. Included with the comprehensive lists of recordings are many of the original record slips and supplements, information about the performers including a photo gallery and many marketing photographs, Grand Opera recordings, live and ... $39.95     View Details Add To Cart
	Forties Film Talk - Oral Histories of Hollywood with 120 Lobby Posters by Doug McClelland - 0899506720 Forties Film Talk presents the history of Hollywood through the words of 70 stars, producers, directors, screenwriters, and bit actors who gave Hollywood it's golden age of the 1940s. The personal histories of Part I range from one to four pages in length. James Stewart, Robert Wise, Claire Trevor, June Allyson, Ralph Bellamy, Jane Greer, Celeste Holm, Gloria Jean, Janet Leigh, Dorothy McGuire, Victor Mature, and Dick Moore are among the 70 personas the tell their story. Part II looks... $29.50     View Details Add To Cart
	The Musical Box: A Guide for Collectors by Arthur W.J.G. Ord-Hume - 0887407641 Music boxes, as we know them, have been around at least since the end of the 18th century. They were the creations of the finest artisans in Europe and brought automatic music into the family home in an age when the only other music was that you played yourself. Musical boxes performed popular music from the world of opera, patriotic and traditional airs, hymns and, later, the songs of the music-hall. The industry started in Europe, flourishing in Switzerland and Germany before crossing the A... $64.50     View Details Add To Cart
	Comic Character Wristwatches - 0764313290 The first Mickey Mouse comic character wristwatch, introduced by Ingersoll-Waterbury Company in 1933, started a craze which continues to today. Comic Character Wristwatches includes advertising & movie promotion watches, as well as contemporary comic characters from such scripts and cartoons Peanuts, Looney Tunes, The Simpsons, South Park, etc.). Over 375 color photos, descriptions, and pricing are compiled in this guide. Most of the watches represented were manufactured between 1970-2... $14.50     View Details Add To Cart
	Movie Posters - 75 Years of Academy Award Winners - 076431789X In March 2003, the Academy Awards celebrated its 75th anniversary. To chronicle the award-wining movies, this wonderful book presents a history of the Academy Awards illustrated with over 850 movie posters and photos. It is a visual feast that provides an image from almost every winning picture in every category. For collectors of movie memorabilia and posters, tis is a great treasure trove and the price guide makes the book a necessary tool for building one's collection. $50.97     View Details Add To Cart
	Radios by Hallicrafters, 2nd ed. - 0764308076 First made in the Depression year of 1933, Hallicrafters radios were among the most ground-breaking short-wave radios. Based in Chicago for nearly fifty years, the company helped to establish the underground hobby of "ham" radio operating in America. Aiming for home users, Hallicrafters was committed to producing high-quality electronics at affordable prices. After developing a significant line of receivers and transmitters in the '30s. Hallicrafters became a key player in military radio manu... $22.75     View Details Add To Cart
	The Early Development of Radio in Canada: An Illustrated History of Canada's Radio Pioneers, Broadcast Receiver Manufacturers and their Products by Robert Murray - 188660620X The early history of radio in Canada is a story rarely told. Too often it gets abbreviated to a short account of Guglielmo Marconi's electrifying, if somewhat equivocal, transoceanic signal reception in St John's, Newfoundland in December 1901. ... The barely audible results of this experiment merely marked the beginning of a long and arduous process of technical refinement and entrepreneurial improvisation that would take three decades to reach fruition. The history of these decades is what ... $19.50     View Details Add To Cart
	A. Atwater Kent: The Man, the Manufacturer and His Radios - 188660617X "A. Atwater Kent: The Man, the Manufacturer and His Radios" is the complete history of the Atwater Kent Radio Manufacturing Company, along with detailed descriptions and analysis of their products of the first decade, the 1920s. It is accompanied by almost 200 photos and schematics of their radios, along with pictures of the factory and their advertisements. $19.50     View Details Add To Cart
	Columbia Phonograph Companion Volume I by Howard Hazelcorn - 0960646655 The Columbia Phonograph Companion is the authoritative guide to Columbia Cylinder Gramophones with illustrations of each Columbia Cylinder product from 1887 through 1909. Each item is thoroughly described and original prices, serial numbers, production dates, rarity rating and current values are provided. Raymond Wile contributes an excellent company history. $35.00     View Details Add To Cart