
Character dolls
- From portrait to models
Bilingual : English/
German edition.
Author : Christa Langer
Page count : 108. 60 all color professional photographs
and 50 black and white pictures. Size 8,5" x 12",
hard cover.
This "big size" book covers a relatively short,
but revolutionary period in the history of the doll.
As well as making a comprehensive coverage of various models
and showing their achetypes, this superb book documents
the production of major German dollmakers.
Amoung the firms discussed are Kammer and Reinhardt, Kestner,
Heubach, Cuno and Otto Dressel, Simon and Halbig. A chapter
devoted to Googly .
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