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Product Description: Toy StoriesFor more than two decades, Toys & Prices has provided an easy-to-use format, collecting trends and invaluable information to some of the greatest toys ever created. Featuring 35,000 listings and more than 100,000 values, this handy and comprehensive guide provides expert collecting advice, hobby insight and secondary-market prices for a massive assortment of post-World War II toys...read more

Paperback:

9781440243738 | 20 edition (Krause Pubns Inc, April 1, 2015), cover price $22.99 | About this edition: Toy StoriesFor more than two decades, Toys & Prices has provided an easy-to-use format, collecting trends and invaluable information to some of the greatest toys ever created.

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Paperback:

9781440235016, titled "Toys & Prices: The World's Best Toys Price Guide" | 19 edition (Krause Pubns Inc, May 22, 2013), cover price $22.99

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Hardcover Edition

Hardcover:

9780396092599, titled "The Global IBM: Leadership in Multinational Management" | Dodd Mead, May 1, 1988, cover price $4.98 | also contains The Global IBM: Leadership in Multinational Management | About this edition: Hardcover Edition

Paperback:

9781421416502 | Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, March 30, 2015, cover price $28.95

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Describes the creation of a variety of toys and games, from seesaws to Silly Putty and toy soldiers to Trivial Pursuit.
By Laurie Keller (illustrator)

Paperback:

9781250034090 | Square Fish, December 2, 2014, cover price $9.99

School and Library:

9780805061963 | Henry Holt Books for Young Readers, July 1, 2000, cover price $17.99 | About this edition: Describes the creation of a variety of toys and games, from seesaws to Silly Putty and toy soldiers to Trivial Pursuit.

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Product Description: Compares toys and games of the olden days with those of modern times, looking at contemporary versions of old games, classic games that are still played today, and toys that have been enhanced by technological innovations.

Paperback:

9780778702108 | Crabtree Pub Co, February 20, 2014, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: Compares toys and games of the olden days with those of modern times, looking at contemporary versions of old games, classic games that are still played today, and toys that have been enhanced by technological innovations.

Library:

9780778701286 | Crabtree Pub Co, January 30, 2014, cover price $23.60 | About this edition: How are todays toys and games different from those in the past?

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Product Description: You may fancy yourself a sports fan, but chances are you don't know: A fish eyeball was used as the center of some nineteenth-century baseballs The race to make better billiard balls led to the invention of plastics The Nerf ball was originally created to be part of a board game featuring cavemen Balls are the unsung heroes of sports...read more

Paperback:

9780399536748 | 1 edition (J P Tarcher, May 3, 2011), cover price $13.95 | About this edition: You may fancy yourself a sports fan, but chances are you don't know: A fish eyeball was used as the center of some nineteenth-century baseballs The race to make better billiard balls led to the invention of plastics The Nerf ball was originally created to be part of a board game featuring cavemen Balls are the unsung heroes of sports.

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An illustrated chronicle of toy history includes coverage of objects that have remained popular throughout the ages whose designs have been shaped by progressive technologies, new materials, and the advent of mass production.

Hardcover:

9780750938495 | Sutton Pub Ltd, July 30, 2006, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: An illustrated chronicle of toy history includes coverage of objects that have remained popular throughout the ages whose designs have been shaped by progressive technologies, new materials, and the advent of mass production.

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Describes how toys have changed over the years.

Hardcover:

9781844581122 | Gardners Books, December 21, 2004, cover price $18.30 | About this edition: This important series explores how things we use every day have changed over the years.

Library:

9781593891992 | Creative Co, July 30, 2005, cover price $27.10 | About this edition: Describes how toys have changed over the years.

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Product Description: The Playmakers: Amazing Origins of Timeless Toys is a celebration of classic toys and a tribute to the people who brought them to life. The book is a journey covering nearly 100 years worth of playthings and offering a delightful look back at many childhood favorites...read more

Hardcover:

9780964697348 | Keys Pub, June 1, 2004, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: The Playmakers: Amazing Origins of Timeless Toys is a celebration of classic toys and a tribute to the people who brought them to life.

Details various types of toys from ancient times to the present day, including dolls, puppets, clockwork, teddy bears, and electronic games.

Paperback:

9780531154021 | Franklin Watts, September 1, 2000, cover price $6.95 | About this edition: Details various types of toys from ancient times to the present day, including dolls, puppets, clockwork, teddy bears, and electronic games.

Library:

9780531145487 | Franklin Watts, March 1, 2000, cover price $21.00 | About this edition: Details various types of toys from ancient times to the present day, including dolls, puppets, clockwork, teddy bears, and electronic games.

Prebinding:

9780613547147 | Turtleback Books, July 1, 2003, cover price $15.45 | About this edition: Details various types of toys from ancient times to the present day, including dolls, puppets, clockwork, teddy bears, and electronic games.

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Briefly describes how toys and games have changed through the years, including such topics as how playgrounds differ and how today's toys relate to those of the past.

Paperback:

9780822546450 | Lernerclassroom, January 1, 2003, cover price $6.99

Library:

9780822546443 | Lerner Pub Group, March 1, 2003, cover price $21.27 | About this edition: Briefly describes how toys and games have changed through the years, including such topics as how playgrounds differ and how today's toys relate to those of the past.

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Looks at the history of toy fads, including hula hoops, Frisbee discs, superballs, and silly putty, and includes instructions on creating homemade funny putty and a flying disc.

Hardcover:

9780756901073 | Perfection Learning, August 1, 2001, cover price $17.00 | About this edition: Looks at the history of toy fads, including hula hoops, Frisbee discs, superballs, and silly putty, and includes instructions on creating homemade funny putty and a flying disc.

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Provides a history of wheeled toys and offers step-by-step instructions for making a cardboard wagon and an old-fashioned rolling hoop.

Hardcover:

9780780797406 | Perfection Learning, August 1, 2001, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Provides a history of wheeled toys and offers step-by-step instructions for making a cardboard wagon and an old-fashioned rolling hoop.

Paperback:

9780789153692 | Perfection Learning, June 1, 2001, cover price $22.01 | About this edition: Provides a history of wheeled toys and offers step-by-step instructions for making a cardboard wagon and an old-fashioned rolling hoop.

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Product Description: From My Little Pony to Batman, from Lego to Nintendo, the toys that children play with make sense of their worlds. Should boys play with guns? Should girls play with Barbie dolls? This book investigates the marketing of toys, and their effects upon children...read more

Hardcover:

9780719047169 | Manchester Univ Pr, November 1, 1996, cover price $79.95 | About this edition: From My Little Pony to Batman, from Lego to Nintendo, the toys that children play with make sense of their worlds.

Paperback:

9780719047176 | Manchester Univ Pr, March 1, 1997, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: From My Little Pony to Batman, from Lego to Nintendo, the toys that children play with make sense of their worlds.

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Considers how toys changed over the centuries in America as a rural society was gradually urbanized

Hardcover:

9780208023865 | Linnet Books, January 1, 1997, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Considers how toys changed over the centuries in America as a rural society was gradually urbanized

Young readers are asked to identify toys with which their great grandparents might have played
By Maggie Murray (photographer), Gill Tanner and Tim Wood

Hardcover:

9780713636864 | A & C Black, August 1, 1993, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Young readers are asked to identify toys with which their great grandparents might have played

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Product Description: Hardcover Edition

Hardcover:

9780396092599 | Dodd Mead, May 1, 1988, cover price $4.98 | also contains From Playgrounds to Playstation: The Interaction of Technology and Play | About this edition: Hardcover Edition

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