Vintage Tin Toys - Names Makers Dates Dimensions (1000+ Toys) / Illustrated Book

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1000 TIN TOYS
by Teruhisa Kitahara and Yukio Shimizu, Taschen, NY, 1996.
”The A to Z of tin toys, from apes to zeppelins – a vast comprehensive compendium of 1,000 colorful classics from the unique holdings of Japanese master collector Teruhisa Kitahara, to gladden the heart of the collector, the idly curious, and the child in all of us.”
Over 1,000 superb color photographs picture vintage tin toys including boats, planes and trains, robots and spaceships, figures and scenarios, cars and bikes, and more including many wind-up toys.  Terse descriptions give item’s name, date, maker, and dimensions when known.  Makers include Yonezawa, Musudaya, Marx, Alps, Waco, Daiya, Bandai, Nomura, Ohta, Yoshino Toy, Horikawa, Kanto Toy, Usagiya, Marumiya, Yoshiya, Union, Y. Egawa, Kuramochi, R.F. Toy, Wakimura Company, Wakasuto Boeki, Swallow Toys, Marusan, Toply, Line Mar, Suzuki & Edward, Bull Mark, Y. Yamada, Tomiyama, Kohno Kakuzo, Taico, Ashai, Marusan, and many many others.   This is an invaluable reference for the collector, dealer, or historian of vintage tin toys.
Bible-thick 5.5” x 7.6” softback in very good condition (cover has several distracting corner creases).  704 pages!
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