This form will search the category Games and Hobbies: Toys, Dolls and Modelling. To search all books, try the form on the homepage.

If you enter two or more words in this box, the search will look for both words, but not necessarily in the order you enter. Don't worry about upper and lower case. The search ignores words of less than three letters, such as initials like the "H" and "G" in "H. G. Wells".

To look for part of a word, use the wildcard * - for example, lon* will find "London" and "Longfellow". If you want to exclude a word from your search, put a minus sign in front of it: -pirates bucc* will find buccaneers, but not pirates.


This form will search the category Games and Hobbies: Toys, Dolls and Modelling. To search all books, try the form on the homepage.

You can make a very specific search using this form: keep your search broad enough to find what you are looking for! If you enter two or more words in the Author, Title, Publisher or Keywords fields we'll look for all of them, though not necessarily in the order you enter them.

Where a book has more than one ISBN we use the British ISBN; and we also tend to use the 10-digit ISBN instead of the 13-digit one.

You don't need to worry about upper and lower case in this search. The search ignores words of less than three letters, such as initials like the "H" and "G" in "H. G. Wells". You can use the wildcard * in this form to look for parts of words - lon* will find "London" and "Longfellow". If you want to exclude a word from your search, put a minus sign in front of it: -pirates bucc* will find buccaneers, but not pirates.

Games and Hobbies : Toys, Dolls and Modelling


Toy Trains - A History

Victor Gollancz, London
4to in blue faux cloth, silver lettering to spine. 160pp, colour plates, illustrations in text, bibliography, index etc. Wrapper text states 'With price guide' - presumably originally loosely inserted in the book (and which our copy no longer has) as such does not appear in the actual text.
An extremely well preserved almost AS NEW copy ( pages faintly tanned) in an AS NEW Dust Jacket
1st editionHardcoverDustjacket
Buy this book
£9.95
UK mail: £4.50
European airmail: £10.28
International surface: £9.10
International airmail: £15.39

Dolls' Houses and Miniatures

John Murray, London
4to in blue faux cloth, gilt lettering to spine, 160pp, colour plates, illustrations in text, bibliography, index etc
An extremely well preserved almost AS NEW unread or barely read copy (very slight push to spine ends) in an almost AS NEW Dust Jacket (minute nick to head of spine panel)
1st editionHardcoverDustjacket
Buy this book
£5.95
UK mail: £5.95
European airmail: £11.86
International surface: £10.50
International airmail: £23.25

The Story of Benjamin Pollock and Pollock's Toy Museum

Pollock's Toy Museum, London
Large 4to in illustrated stiff card covers, 16pp, illustrations in text
A well preserved FINE copy (covers faintly tanned)
1st editionSoftcover
Buy this book
£7.95
UK mail: £3.75
European airmail: £7.19
International surface: £5.80
International airmail: £9.38

A History of Dolls' Houses

Cassell, London
8vo in marine green cloth, gilt lettering to spine, 320pp, plates, index etc
Name on fly-leaf. Very slight rub to spine ends end cover corner tips, tiny spot of very faint soil to front cover else FINE, an otherwise well preserved and very clean and tight copy
1st editionHardcover
Buy this book
£7.95
UK mail: £4.20
European airmail: £10.52
International surface: £9.22
International airmail: £16.12

Teddy Bears, Doll's Houses and Related Material, Rocking Horses, Fine Dolls and Automata Games, Toys Amusements, Gramophones, Phonographs and Musical Boxes (Sotheby's Auction Catalogue 3rd October, 1984)

Sotheby's, London
Large 4to. in stiff card covers. Unpaginated, approx. 120pp, 545 lots, most illustrated with plates in colour and b/w
Very slight crease to front cover corner tips (no splaying), mild crease to head of spine else FINE, an otherwise extremely well preserved and very clean and tight copy
1st editionSoftcover
Buy this book
£36.95
UK mail: £4.20
European airmail: £10.52
International surface: £9.22
International airmail: £16.12

Toys From Alice in Wonderland

Mills and Boon, London
4to in colour printed stiff glossy card covers, 127pp, colour plates, plates and illustrations in text
Mild crease to bottom corner tip of front cover else an AS NEW unread or barely read copy
1st editionSoftcover
Buy this book
£10.95
UK mail: £4.20
European airmail: £10.52
International surface: £9.22
International airmail: £16.12

Kite Craft - The History and Processes of Kitemaking Throughout the World

George Allen and Unwin, London
Hardback 1st Edition 4to bound in blue Rexine. 214pp, plates, index
FINE, an extremely well preserved and very clean and tight copy in a very slightly edge-rubbed and faintly edge-creased but otherwise FINE Dust Jacket with a single short closed tear to rear panel adjacent to head of spine (looks almost as new in its protector)
1st editionHardcoverDustjacket
Buy this book
£5.37
UK mail: £4.20
European airmail: £10.52
International surface: £9.22
International airmail: £16.12

In Praise of Teddy Bears

Souvenir Press, London
1st Edition Thus Large 4to. 128pp, illus
An almost AS NEW unread or barely read copy (faint shelf-rub to cover bottom edges) in an almost AS NEW Dust Jacket (slight rub to top edge of spine panel and top flap fold corner tips, looks new in its protector)
1st editionHardcoverDustjacket
Buy this book
£5.95
UK mail: £4.20
European airmail: £10.52
International surface: £9.22
International airmail: £16.12

Antique Toys and Their Background

Chancellor, London
4to. 260pp, plates, illus, marks, index etc
An almost AS NEW barely read copy (top edge of page block faintly dusty) in a slightly edge-rubbed but otherwise almost AS NEW price-clipped Dust Jacket
HardcoverDustjacket
Buy this book
£7.20
UK mail: £5.95
European airmail: £12.52
International surface: £11.27
International airmail: £20.16

French and German Dolls, Dishes and Accessories

Antique Publications, Ohio
Large 4to. in colour printed stiff glossy card covers. 168pp, plates in colour and b/w etc
An almost AS NEW barely read copy (few spots of very slight shelf rub to cover edges)
1st editionSoftcover
Buy this book
£5.95
UK mail: £4.20
European airmail: £10.52
International surface: £9.22
International airmail: £16.12

The Doll

Abrams, New York
1st Edition Thus. Folio in pictorial stiff card self wraps.143pp, numerous plates and text illus. in colour and b/w, bibliography
Minute speck of rub to spine tips else AS NEW, an extremely well preserved, very clean and tight copy
1st editionSoftcover
Buy this book
£8.40
UK mail: £4.20
European airmail: £9.86
International surface: £8.54
International airmail: £14.77

English Dolls, Effigies and Puppets

Batsford, London
Hardback 226pp, colour frontis., plates, illus in text, bibliography, index. 1st Edition
Ex-library copy with stamps and pasting on front endpapers, and one small stamp on rear paste down only. Otherwise a very clean, tight copy VERY GOOD in lightly rubbed and slightly chipped VERY GOOD Dust Jacket with small surface tear to spine panel (looks very presentable in its protector)
1st editionHardcoverDustjacket
Buy this book
£5.95
UK mail: £4.20
European airmail: £9.86
International surface: £8.54
International airmail: £14.77

Veteran and Vintage Cars - Troy Model Club Series

Thomas Nelson, London
Large 8vo, 62pp, colour plates, etc
An extremely well preserved and very clean and tight almost AS NEW unread or barely read copy in a faintly tanned but otherwise almost AS NEW Dust Jacket
1st editionHardcoverDustjacket
Buy this book
£3.57
UK mail: £3.75
European airmail: £9.19
International surface: £7.85
International airmail: £13.42

Fine Historical Steam Engine Models and Ship Models, Railway Relics, Locomotive Name Plates etc - Christie's Sale Catalogue April 7th 1971

Christie's London
4to in orange card covers, 80pp, many photo illustration etc
Few leaves top corner creased, spine ends a little rubbed, cover corner tips slightly creased else VERY GOOD, an otherwise clean and tight copy
1st editionSoftcover
Buy this book
£13.95
UK mail: £3.75
European airmail: £9.19
International surface: £7.85
International airmail: £13.42

Partridge Fine Arts Ltd - Summer Exhibition 1990

Partridge Fine Arts Ltd
4to in stiff card covers, 130pp, 71 full page colour plates, some folding. Includes 'Prisoner Of War Ship Models' by Nigell d'Oyly and 'Lacquered Furniture' by Reginald Dudman with related plates
AS NEW
1st editionSoftcover
Buy this book
£23.95
UK mail: £4.20
European airmail: £9.86
International surface: £8.54
International airmail: £14.77

Model Soldiers - A Collectors Guide

Seeley Service, London
Hardback 240pp, plates in colour and b/w, lists of societies, museums etc, bibliography, index. 1st Edition
VERY GOOD, a very clean, bright and tight copy (some light shelf-rub to cover bottom edges, lacks blank fly leaves)
1st editionHardcover
Buy this book
£3.95
UK mail: £4.20
European airmail: £10.52
International surface: £9.22
International airmail: £16.12

From Carrack to Clipper - A Book of Sailing-Ship Models

Halton, London
Hardback 2nd Edition Revised. 4to, 74pp text plus 66pp plates at rear (4 colour)
VERY GOOD, a clean and tight copy (light soil to rear blank end-papers, front cover bottom corner tip slightly bumped)
Hardcover
Buy this book
£4.95
UK mail: £4.20
European airmail: £9.86
International surface: £8.54
International airmail: £14.77

United States Change country

< Book details
Check out
Shipping:
Total:

One moment please... waiting for PayPal.

We're just contacting PayPal to start the transaction.