DOLLS OF THREE CENTURIES

-FIRST EDITION (with same '1951' date on title and copyright page and with 'A' on copyright page)- This is NOT an ex-library book and it is NOT a reprint edition- BINDING is light grey HARDCOVER with decoration on front cover; binding and text are very neat, clean and solid, VG with NO extraneous writings or bookplates. Just light age coloration to outer text-block and former owner inscription small and neat at bottom of first free page. Original PICTORIAL DUST JACKET has publisher price intact ($4.50); also neat, clean and bright in GOOD condition. Overall, a very nice, SOLID COLLECTOR COPY of an UNCOMMON VINTAGE DOLL REFERENCE to ANTIQUE and MODERN AMERICAN and EUROPEAN DOLL COLLECTIONS. This is the COMPANION VOLUME to the author's previous book, 'THE DOLLS OF YESTERDAY'. The contents includes: MUSICAL DOLLS, MECHANICAL DOLLS, JAPANESE FESTIVAL DOLLS, DOLLS in the VICTORIA and ALBERT MUSEUM, DOLLS in the MUSEUM of the CITY of NEW YORK, WOODEN DOLLS, FABRIC DOLLS, WAX DOLLS, PAPIER-MACHE DOLLS, MONTANARI DOLLS, DOLL DRESSMAKING and much more! Complete with INDEX and ILLUSTRATED with over 350 DOLLS. 205 pages. Overall, a very nice, SOLID COLLECTOR COPY of an UNCOMMON COMPREHENSIVE DOLL HISTORY and AUTHORITATIVE DOLL REFERENCE. …