Product Description: A fun, nostalgic look at an infatuation with Christmas holiday decor from the 1950s and through the 1970s. Decorations some whimsical, some beautiful are part of a treasure trove of campy kitsch that the author calls Kitschmas! Features vintage Christmas ornaments, trees, ceramics, and more, as they are used in today's homes...read more

Product Description: Christmas celebrations of the past forty years are shown through historical photographs, catalog pages, and over 530 photographs of artificial and real trees, Christmas ornaments, interior and exterior lights, candy containers, cards, tinsel garlands, and cheerful holiday figurines...read more

Product Description: A nostalgic look at Christmas decorating customs, electric lighting innovations, and tree decorations in the U.S., featuring machine-produced glass ornaments, bubble lights, Italian miniature lights, Matchless Stars, and many more...read more

Product Description: Many of the Christmas seasonal customs and associated objects relate back, not just to Christianity, but to a very pagan past. Constance King traces the popular modern celebration of Christmas and describes how it evolved. This is the first book to concentrate on the history of all the material objects associated with Christmas, from early church figures and paintings to the mass-produced tree decorations and images of Santa Claus...read more

Product Description: Christmas advertising, games, puzzles, figurines, candy containers and candy molds are a few of the new areas of collecting that are explored in this work. The collectibles are illustrated, historically detailed and explained.'

A fact-filled guide to Christmas collectibles offers information on and full-color photographs of Yuletide items from the Victorian era to the present.

Shows and describes artificial trees, Christmas ornaments, figurines, cake tins, prints, children's books, trade cards, and advertising, and lists current values