An inside look at kokeshi dolls: from the skilled woodworkers behind their design to their important cultural significance.

For centuries, entertainers have strung their audiences along with these captivating characters. This author does the same, chronicling the global fas...

Doll artist, Helen Cohen, has created a cat fancy in Whimsical Elegance like no other! A self-taught doll maker and passionate costume and fashion afi...

The great movie stars, Disney, TV, Barbie, Cartoon, Western Heroes, and other paper dolls of the 1930's through the 1970's.

With 16 color pages, price listings and descriptions, this is the book to own for anyone who has ever played with, collected, or been interested in paper dolls.

Colorful paper dolls that sold everything from coffee to cathartics, from tea to thread, from cocoa to corsets. These dolls were the playthings of gen...

The author explains the process of making bisque dolls and also gives other relevant background material on the manufacture, such as the methods used ...

These paper cut-outs developed from toys into a historically important reflection on the German military and social classes from the early nineteenth ...

Celebrates the American doll of the 1950s and 1960s. 300 rare dolls in their original costumes are identified with detailed descriptions.

As the Victorian era passed into the Edwardian and Roaring Twenties, a market developed for bisque and china naughty novelties and figurines of women ...

The discovery of a rare catalog from Emile Bauersachs, one of the most important German doll export firms in the early 1900s, issued in 1924, offers a wealth of information on bisque dolls, mechanical toys and other playthings.

Identifying German Character Dolls is an enlightening and enthralling reference that every character-doll collector must own.

This important book features groundbreaking research, accompanied by more than 350 color photos.

Auction catalog from an auction of rare and valuable antique dolls. The auction was held in March 2007. Prices realized are included.

This is a set of two books on Paper Dolls: Saalfield & Merrill Paper Dolls, and Lowe and Whitman Paper Dolls.

This is a style manual to help non-Japanese speakers/readers who collect Japanese kokeshi dolls identify and learn more about their vintage traditional kokeshi dolls.

Designed to help non-Japanese speakers identify and learn more about their kokeshi doll collections of more recent/creative kokeshi dolls. There are more than 200 photos in this volume.

This book narrates the development of the marionette both as a work of art and as a figure for playing with and describes how it moves. Out of print, limited supply.

Identify and learn about vintage, traditional kokeshi dolls as well as more recent / creative ones. Includes Shingata, Omiyage, Sosaku, and Beyond!

Presents up-to-date information gleaned over many years of research, which will be of interest to toy and doll collectors, historians and enthusiasts alike.