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Dawn Herlocher

Now in full color, 200 Years of Dolls, 3rd Edition is the most easy-to-use comprehensive identification and value guide designed for both novice and experienced collectors of vintage dolls, dealers, auction houses, and appraisers. With updated pricing, new color photos, and new manufacturer marks listings-the principle tool used for identification-the third edition of this best selling book will serve as an invaluable resource. With thorough historical information on 180 different manufacturers, readers will gain a better understanding of the dollmaking industry. Pricing grids contain values for variations of the same dolls, providing the most accurate pricing available. Collectors will find detailed descriptions for each of the 5,000 doll listings and more than 300 brilliant full-color photographs. Covers cloth, china, vinyl, antique, molded, French, and German dolls plus much more! -5,000 listings for dolls, each with detailed descriptions and accurate, up-to-date...

Ron Kowalke

The most comprehensive book of its kind, with approximately 270,000 price listings for all models made by 109 car and truck builders between 1899 and 2003. The exclusive 1-to-6 condition grading system gives values for cars in every condition, from junkyard parts car to show winner. Established, comprehensive, easy-to-use price guide that appeals to any car enthusiast, at an attractive price. The only annual price guide that covers pre-World War II cars -- the Classic Era. This thorough price guide is a standard reference for insurance companies, appraisers, restorers, bankers and auction companies. The prime collector car pricing source for more than 20 years.

This easy-to-use, full-color coin reference is great for growing your collection, and helping decide if you can take advantage of today's strong precious metal values with the coins you own. It contains thoroughly updated pricing - values for up to 11 grades of preservation - for all circulating and non-circulating U.S. coins, and more than 1,500 color photos for accurate identification.

Nigel Bennett

The AK47 assault rifle is the worlda??s most prolific and iconic weapon withA more thanA 80 million produced. Today, the largest threat the armies of theA U.S., U.K.,A and NATO are faced with is not nuclear, biological,A or chemical weapons but mana??s real weapon of mass destruction, the AK47. Much of what is written about it, both in books and in the general media, is out of date, technically wrong, incomplete, and hard to understand. Nigel Bennett sets out to truly demystify the AK47 in an easy to read and see format. He takes the reader through the three original basic models of Soviet design?the AK47, the AKM, and the AK74?and then the vast differing worldwide production models. The book gives in-depth coverage of the internal workings of the AK47, highlighting what makes it the "perfect" killing machine.

Joan Hinds, Nancy Zieman

Stylish Outfits for Girls and Their Dolls!A girl and her doll are fast friends indeed. Add in coordinating outfits, and nothing could be cuter! You can make adorable coordinating outfits for the girl in your life and the doll in hers with the help of All Dolled Up! From flowered party dresses, summer tops and Capri pants to fleece vests and messenger bags, the projects inside All Dolled Up provide easy, fun and fashionable outfits for every season and time of day.Make 20 different outfits including dress-up clothes, casual wear, pajamas and accessories.Create the clothing using full-size patterns for all of the doll projects and many of the girl projects.Learn time-saving techniques for creating clothing for 18-inch dolls, making any outfit in 30 minutes or less.Watch the techniques in action with author Joan Hinds and Nancy Zieman on the bonus DVD.Learn even more tips and techniques from Nancy Zieman in her Notes from Nancy throughout the book.Making matching outfits for your girl...

Dennis R. Porell

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Dennis R. Porell

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Jim Bennett

This volume in the Collecting Indian Artifacts series focuses on those artifacts which were carefully flaked from stone over the thousands of years that make up America's prehistoric past. Weapons such as arrowheads, dart points, and spear tips are covered in depth, but also discussed are the multitude of other artifact tool types that were manufactured long ago. Large hoes and spades were made for cultivating crops; drills, awls, and reamers for crafting items from slate, wood, leather, and skins; and axes, celts, adzes, and chisels for chopping and woodworking were flaked into shape by ancient man in North America. With over 25 years experience in the artifact collecting community including operating one of the nations fastest growing prehistoric artifact auction houses, the author has compiled hundreds of full-color photos of authentic artifacts from across the country along with their associated values to give the reader a well rounded and comprehensive understanding of the many...

David Pullen

Loved by both children and collectors, Britain toys and models are known for their play value and realism. Releasing its first toy soldiers in 1893 using a new hollow casting process Britain has since produced many exciting military and civil models including the popular Home Farm series.

Timothy Earle

Bronze Age Economics is a collection of Timothy Earle's major essays. Its comparative analysis of prehistoric economies is grounded in archaeological and historical data from three cases: Hawaiian chiefdoms, Andean South America (particularly the Inka), and Bronze Age Denmark. The book looks at trajectories of economic development as they affect, and are affected by, political institutions. In particular, Earle's essays examine the distinction between (1) "corporate" (that is, kinship-based) control of intensively maintained agricultural resources in Hawaii and Peru and (2) extensive exchange (market) networks in Denmark. The essays then evaluate the significance of that economic distinction for the evolution of political institutions (such as chiefdoms and the state). Earle has organized the readings around each of the three case studies rather than directly around the corporate/exchange dichotomy. As the book represents the trajectory of Earle's professional life over the...

Yvonne M. Padilla

Bronze metal clay is the natural next choice for the large silver metal clay market; ita??s far less expensive, so crafters can expand their creativity creating larger-scale pieces. As a member of the Technical Support Team for Rio Grande (a huge online distributor of jewelry supplies), Yvonne Padilla is an expert at answering craftersa?? questions about bronze. In addition to providing step-by-step instructions for 30 projects, she explains how bronze differs from silver clay, how to work with it, and how to attain the lovely verdigris patina that only bronze has.A An inspirational gallery and a trouble shooting section complete the fantastic package.

Ensign Hosmer Kellogg

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Ensign Hosmer Kellogg

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Freshen your fraternity with these follies! Do you wish to separate the jolly good fellows from the dour sour pusses from those who seek to ASCEND TO THEIR SIDE DEGREESa??but you suffer from lack of imagination when it comes to constructing elaborate hazing rituals and DEVICES? Does fake vomit, joy buzzers and a party pack of fake moustaches only produce yawns, rather than giggles, among your once-merry members? Well, look no further than Catalog no. 439: Burlesque and Side degree Specialties: Paraphernalia and Costumes, in which the manufacturers De Moulin Bros. & Co. from Greenville, Ill. feature the finest electro-dropo benches, goat-shaped tricycles, electric branding irons (and much much more)! Not only does this 1930 catalog, reproduced with marvelous 21st century machinery, provide tightly rendered pen-and-ink period illustrations and detailed product descriptions, it also has helpful how-tos and scripts to aid in the pulling of these pranks on initiates! (WARNING:...

Andrew Casey

The definitive price guide to Clarice Cliff featuring actual prices realised at auction