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	Phonograph Dolls and Toys by Joan & Robin Rolfs - 0960646663 - 0960646663 Renowned collectors Joan and Robin Rolfs have created a wonderful new collectors guide to the fascinating world of talking dolls and children's toys. The full spectrum of the hobby is presented for the first time in this elegant book. From the first talking dolls by Edison to the modern talking dolls of today, Phonograph Dolls and Toys describes hundreds of collectible talking dolls and toys. Phonograph Dolls and Toys should receive a high grade for its photographs. Each item h... $22.50     View Details Add To Cart
	Phonograph Dolls and Toys by Joan & Robin Rolfs - 0960646663 - 0960646663 Renowned collectors Joan and Robin Rolfs have created a wonderful new collectors guide to the fascinating world of talking dolls and children's toys. The full spectrum of the hobby is presented for the first time in this elegant book. From the first talking dolls by Edison to the modern talking dolls of today, Phonograph Dolls and Toys describes hundreds of collectible talking dolls and toys. Phonograph Dolls and Toys should receive a high grade for its photographs. Each item h... $22.50     View Details Add To Cart
	Forties Film Talk - Oral Histories of Hollywood with 120 Lobby Posters by Doug McClelland - 0899506720 Forties Film Talk presents the history of Hollywood through the words of 70 stars, producers, directors, screenwriters, and bit actors who gave Hollywood it's golden age of the 1940s. The personal histories of Part I range from one to four pages in length. James Stewart, Robert Wise, Claire Trevor, June Allyson, Ralph Bellamy, Jane Greer, Celeste Holm, Gloria Jean, Janet Leigh, Dorothy McGuire, Victor Mature, and Dick Moore are among the 70 personas the tell their story. Part II looks... $29.50     View Details Add To Cart
	The Musical Box: A Guide for Collectors by Arthur W.J.G. Ord-Hume - 0887407641 Music boxes, as we know them, have been around at least since the end of the 18th century. They were the creations of the finest artisans in Europe and brought automatic music into the family home in an age when the only other music was that you played yourself. Musical boxes performed popular music from the world of opera, patriotic and traditional airs, hymns and, later, the songs of the music-hall. The industry started in Europe, flourishing in Switzerland and Germany before crossing the A... $64.50     View Details Add To Cart
	Comic Character Wristwatches - 0764313290 The first Mickey Mouse comic character wristwatch, introduced by Ingersoll-Waterbury Company in 1933, started a craze which continues to today. Comic Character Wristwatches includes advertising & movie promotion watches, as well as contemporary comic characters from such scripts and cartoons Peanuts, Looney Tunes, The Simpsons, South Park, etc.). Over 375 color photos, descriptions, and pricing are compiled in this guide. Most of the watches represented were manufactured between 1970-2... $14.50     View Details Add To Cart
	Movie Posters - 75 Years of Academy Award Winners - 076431789X In March 2003, the Academy Awards celebrated its 75th anniversary. To chronicle the award-wining movies, this wonderful book presents a history of the Academy Awards illustrated with over 850 movie posters and photos. It is a visual feast that provides an image from almost every winning picture in every category. For collectors of movie memorabilia and posters, tis is a great treasure trove and the price guide makes the book a necessary tool for building one's collection. $50.97     View Details Add To Cart
	Radios by Hallicrafters, 2nd ed. - 0764308076 First made in the Depression year of 1933, Hallicrafters radios were among the most ground-breaking short-wave radios. Based in Chicago for nearly fifty years, the company helped to establish the underground hobby of "ham" radio operating in America. Aiming for home users, Hallicrafters was committed to producing high-quality electronics at affordable prices. After developing a significant line of receivers and transmitters in the '30s. Hallicrafters became a key player in military radio manu... $22.75     View Details Add To Cart
	1935 Official Short Wave Radio Manual - 1559182768 Like the '34 edition, the first part of this book contains articles, bits and pieces from the pages of Shortwave Craft Magazine that will shows how to build a one tube pocket set, a one-tube all electric oscillodyne, the two tube "Champ", the "Duo-Amplidyne", the high gain battery set, an advanced 19 Twinplex, the BS-4 Speaker set, power supply from Ford coils, a direct current six tube receiver, the "Clip-Coil 2", the "Globe Girdler 7", improvements to the Victor two tube superhet, and plent... $17.50     View Details Add To Cart
	Edison Blue Amberol Recordings 1915 - 1929 by Ronald Dethlefson - 0960646647 Ronald Dethlefson's carefully researched two volume study of the development of Edison s Finest Cylinder Recordings was out of print for many years. Demand was such that the set has been reprinted. This listing is for the second volume covering the years 1915-1929. Included with the comprehensive lists of recordings are many of the original record slips and supplements, information about the performers including a photo gallery and many marketing photographs, Grand Opera recordings, live and ... $39.95     View Details Add To Cart
	Edison Blue Amberol Recordings 1912 - 1914 by Ronald Dethlefson - 0937612006 Ronald Dethlefson's carefully researched two volume study of the development of Edison s Finest Cylinder Recordings was out of print for many years. Demand was such that the set has been reprinted. This listing is for the first volume covering the years 1912-1914. Included with the comprehensive lists of recordings are many of the original record slips and supplements, information about the performers including a photo gallery and many marketing photographs, Grand Opera recordings, live and t... $19.95     View Details Add To Cart
	The Edison Disc Phonographs and the Diamond Discs - 0960646634 Although a number of books have been devoted to the evolution of the phonograph and gramophone, this book was the first to focus on the development of Thomas Edison's Diamond Discs and the history behind the robust and ornate instruments that were designed to play them. This new edition expands and adds information to that story. = = Edison demonstrated tinfoil phonograph in 1877 and in the next year built several phonographs to play discs, again using tinfoil. Other matters intervened, and w... $17.89     View Details Add To Cart
	The Impoverished Radio Experimenter - SET1239 The Impoverished Radio Experimenter is a serial currently in its 6th edition. The small booklets carry a wealth of information for the hands-on, nuts-and-bolts, radio buff. It is dedicated to presenting tricks, tips, and secrets to help the builder of simple radios and electrical gear achieve high performance at minimal cost! We are offering all 6 booklets here. The articles in volume 1: Vacuum Tube Substitutions; Inexpensive Tube Power Supply; Grid-Leak Detectors; Regenerative Receive... $29.50     View Details Add To Cart