THE COLLECTOR’S HISTORY OF DOLLS

Bonanza, New York, 1981.  ISBN 0-517-34801-2.  Hard cover, 608 pages including Glossary, Museums, Bibliography, and Index.  Very good; light edge and cover wear; binding sound with headbands; no jacket.  Some pencil on rear paste-down; remainder of interior clean and unmarked; colour and black & white photos.  ‘… in the writing of the present book an attempt is made to give as full an account as possible of the chronological history of the doll.  The doll’s evolution cannot be discussed merely in the cold terms of “schools” or “periods”, but must be related to the social context of the lives of the children who owned them …’ (from Introduction)