Anne Tolstoi Wallach PAPER DOLLS First ed and similar items

PAPER DOLLS 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 OUR STORE FOR MORE GREAT FIRST EDITION BOOKS THANKS!