Featuring over 600 colour photographs from the finest tinplate toy collections in the world, this is a companion to the previous volume, "The Art of Tin Toys". It features 19th-century toys, and then progresses through the 20s and 30s to cover the post-war robots and cars produced in the 1950s.
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This magnificent and authoritative volume has nearly 700 color illustrations of the toys that dominated the industry for a century.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Pressland's Not-So-Great Book of Tin Toys,
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This review is from: Pressland's Great Book of Tin Toys (Hardcover)
Time for a reality check, folks. I tracked this book down because I'm a tin toy freak, and I read all kinds of glowing words about the book itself, re: production, photography, etc. Turns out it's a treat for tin toys up till WWII, but almost laughable in its coverage of post war pieces. Also, the production isn't all that great -- nice tin piece attached to the cover, but on my new copy the red cover was bubbled in one spot, and there were pages stuck together with glue. The photography is okay, but not spectacular, and the production values are pretty much routine for a picture/text book like this. The slipcase is boring in design -- in short, I've had coffee tables that looked more spectacular than this coffee table book.Don't get me wrong:it's a valuable and often beautiful book, and Mr. Pressland should be congratulated on his work, but it just isn't worth this kind of money.
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Beautiful,
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This review is from: Pressland's Great Book of Tin Toys (Hardcover)
My Signed book Presslands Great Book Of Tin Toys was the topic at a Toy get together. I was offered 3 times the Amazon.com price for this book. People who look this book over are Taken back by the Photography. Get yours before they are all gone.
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This review is from: Pressland's Great Book of Tin Toys (Hardcover)
When I first considered spending this kind of money for a book I was convinced that I had surely lost my mind. Now that I've had it for quite some time I can say that I would have paid more. It is a gorgeous book with beautiful pictures of rarely seen tin toys. If you're a collector this is absolutely a "must have"! It, along with Pressland's "Art of the Tin Toy" have been our prominently displayed coffee table books for months and guests, who may know nothing about tin toys, thoroughly enjoy the book as well.
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