179 PAGES.A comprehensive guide to making, costuming, and collecting dolls with 900 photos, 24 color plates, hardcover book, dust cover, book jacket, ex-libris. Library card envelope, name stamped inside front cover, outside outer pages. Inside front page bent (it's a blank page, so doen't affect rest of contents. ) Book jacket torn along edges (not where writing is) Mammoth number of dolls from all over the world are photographed for this volume, which is both a practical how-to guide AND a collector's book. For the craftsman, materials & basic techniques are explained and illustrated with step-by-step photos for stuffed, wire=framed, wood-carved and -turned, clay and paper dolls. Specific directions used for making hundreds of dolls are shown country by country. HUNDREDs of magnificent photographs of dolls from Africa & the Near East, Asia, Pacific, Europe, Latin America, North America are accompanied by a description of the doll's construction, clothing, and accessories.

You'll find the traditional cornhusk dolls form the USA; gread dough dolls from Ecuador; Pinocchio doll from Italy; kokeshi dolls Japan; East Indian stick dolls; bobbin doll from Yorkshire, England; beaded Zulu dolls from So. Africa; penny woodens from Germany; a stump doll from the Caribbean; a fisherman doll from Denmark, and 100s of others from almost every part of the globe.

This is the most complete book of dolls from around the world and one that has long been out-of-print as it was published in 1980. 344 pages also show such unique and absolutely fantastic dolls as a 9" wooden figure dressen in traditional costume of the Krakowiak region of Poland * 10" felt doll from Spain is a caricature of a lady-about-town walking her dog (you'll get a laugh at this one); 5-1/2" tall peassant girl from Ireland; 15" padded fabric dolls representing the Immortals made of exquisite satins and grocades - Chinese wall dolls; an angel crib figure made in Italy in the 1700s; Pincushion with 2" doll attached from Ecuador; dolls clothes too; Kachina figures 1910; Cornhusk doll with fabric flower on her hat and dried cornsilk for hair; beanhead dolls; all wood toyseller doll from USSR; 14" leprechaun with stuffed fabric body, and loads of more that you've most likely NEVER seen before!

 Random House 0-517-53054-6 / 9780517530542
Hardcover Very Good Condition London out of Print 

Price: 48.51 USD