Toys and Prices, 2001


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Enter the 21st century with "2001 Toys & Prices", a veritable toy odyssey of more than 20,000 collectible vintage and newer toys. The editors of "Toy Shop" magazine, along with recognized experts, examine toy trends in the eighth edition of this comprehensive price guide. 700 photos. 8-page color section.




Toys and Prices, 2001


Book Description

Enter the 21st century with "2001 Toys & Prices", a veritable toy odyssey of more than 20,000 collectible vintage and newer toys. The editors of "Toy Shop" magazine, along with recognized experts, examine toy trends in the eighth edition of this comprehensive price guide. 700 photos. 8-page color section.




Toys & Prices, 2001


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The Toy Shop Annual 2001


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The all-new Toy Shop Annual 2001provides everything you need to successfully collect in the new millennium. How do the packaging, material, age, appearance and the function of a toy all work together to influence its value? How has the Internet affected the toy business on the secondary and primary markets? Collectors will find the answers to these questions and much, much more. In addition to feature articles, a guide to grading toys, market update, the auction year in review, toy/company anniversaries, state of the industry, dealer listings, toy manufacturers' directory and the 2001 show calendar, collectors will find special new sections devoted to the hot collectibles of 2000 and top Baby Boomer toys. Features: Market update; Guide to grading toys; Hot Toys of 2000; Top Baby Boomer toys.




Character Brands


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2004 Toys and Prices


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The toy collector's identification and value guide.




Toys and Prices


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Current market values for 31,000 listings and 2,000 photographs are included in this publication that has been revised with new toy categories.




The Encyclopedia of Matchbox Toys


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It's all here! Pictured and listed in this massive volume, now in its fourth edition, are fifty-four years' worth of toys produced between Matchbox's founding in 1947, and 2001, including their popular diecast vehicles, playsets, dolls, plastic kits, robots, and ephemera. The international scope of Matchbox toys is illustrated in catalogs and on boxes and labels printed in a dozen languages. Certain toys have been made for sale in specific countries or to promote specific companies or products. In 1982 the international numbering system on miniatures changed. The result of all these variables is a fascinating and infinite variety of Matchbox toys. In the largest volume about Matchbox Toys ever published, 2,447 color photos illustrate nearly all of Matchbox's vast line. Helpful captions and a price guide make this an essential part of every collector's library.




The Toy Collector


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A tragicomic novel about nostalgia, addiction, and 1970s action figures. The Toy Collector is a wickedly funny portrait of a young man who sells stolen pharmaceuticals to finance his growing addiction to memorabilia. An orderly at a Times Square hospital, he buys his toys at exorbitant prices, searching the familiar tacky plastic in a perverse effort to avoid adulthood. As the story switches from the make-believe world he creates with his childhood friends-populated by Scrunch-Em, Grow-Em Dinosaurs and toy robots-to the grown-up pleasures of sex, drugs and alcohol, James falls in and out of love, and stumbles through New York City in search of dubious redemption.