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Marx Toys Sampler

Author : Michelle L. Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780873418942
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (189 download)

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Download or read book Marx Toys Sampler written by Michelle L. Smith and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new reference and price guide presents an informative 'personal' history of the former Marx Toys Company plant at Glen Dale, West Virginia, where many of the fondly remembered Marx Playsets, doll houses, and toy figures of the 'baby boomer' era were created and manufactured. More than just a catalogue of these ever-popular and eminently affordable toys, this book provides Marx toy collectors with new insights into the planning and production processes employed by the original 'king' of American toy makers. Included are insightful interviews with Glen Dale plant model maker and with the son of a Marx artist, along with previously unpublished photos of a number of Marx toy and figure prototypes. With publication authorised by the current owner of the Marx Toys trademark, this book provides a unique and valuable behind-the-scenes look into the production of one of America's premier toy manufacturers.

Marx Toys

Author : Maxine A. Pinsky
Publisher : Schiffer Pub Limited
ISBN 13 : 9780887409363
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Marx Toys written by Maxine A. Pinsky and published by Schiffer Pub Limited. This book was released on 1995-11-01 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wonderful toy robots, space ships, astronauts, and comic characters produced by the Louis Marx Company from the 1950s to the 1970s are described and shown in color and black and white photos. The toys were produced in tin or plastic and include wind-ups, battery powered toys, hoppers, and ramp walkers. Interviews with artists employed by the company add detail to this valuable text.

Greenberg's Guide to Marx Toys: 1923-1950

Author : Maxine A. Pinsky
Publisher : Greenberg Books
ISBN 13 : 9780897780278
Total Pages : 143 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (82 download)

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Download or read book Greenberg's Guide to Marx Toys: 1923-1950 written by Maxine A. Pinsky and published by Greenberg Books. This book was released on 1988-06-01 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Little Big World

Author : Jeffrey Hammond
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 1587299437
Total Pages : 137 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (872 download)

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Download or read book Little Big World written by Jeffrey Hammond and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2010-04-15 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Collections are more about who one is than about what is collected. In Little Big World, Jeffrey Hammond's resonant 1950Æs inner child speaks through the reflective sixty-something man about the culture and magic of a spectrum of action figure playsets through a lifetime."ùMarilynn Gelfman Karp, author, In Flagrante Collecto

Marx Toy Kings

Author : Russell S. Kern
Publisher : Blurb
ISBN 13 : 9781364733421
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book Marx Toy Kings written by Russell S. Kern and published by Blurb. This book was released on 2015-11-25 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Softcover) MARX: TOY KINGS Volume 2 continues the epic story of "Toy King" (Time Magazine) Louis Marx and "The World's Largest Toy Company" -- the defining work on the development of Louis Marx & Company that puts you in the halls and research and development rooms using factual accounts and eye-witness interviews in an exciting story told by the people who were there. Now, with Louis named “Toy King” by Time Magazine, he faces his greatest challenge ever. Television advertising is putting competitors in the homes of children and Louis refuses to manipulate a child’s desires with TV ads. ... Meanwhile the firm is at its height and Louis’ designers Frank Rice and Al Bagg and Ed Hjelte are turning out the greatest playsets the world has ever known: The Giant Blue & Gray, Battleground, Wagon Train and many more, each complete with figures, accessories like forts and horses and equipment, a miniature world of their own in a single carton. These become so successful that Louis is opening factories in England, Hong Kong and Germany. Here is their story, a personal and industrial history told for the first time by the men and women who lived it and created the astonishing miniature worlds in a box. Interviews include Charles Marx, at the firm from the mid-1950’s until the end, Ed Furie, Marx’ personal assistant and a top salesman during the same period, Frank Rice and Al Bagg, playset designers of Battleground, Fort Apache, Iwo Jima, Guns of Navarone and many others. You hear from them throughout the history of the firm making “Toy Kings” Volumes I and II the bountiful, definitive reference works on the Marx company and the heyday of 1950’s & 60’s toys and playsets. Impeccably researched and written by film producer Rusty Kern, with wife Kathy, also publishers of Playset Magazine.com, America’s only source of information on vintage toys, playsets and plastic figures. Over 225 photos

The Encyclopedia of Marx Action Figures

Author : Tom Heaton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780873416733
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (167 download)

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Download or read book The Encyclopedia of Marx Action Figures written by Tom Heaton and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1960s and 1970s, Marx ruled the action figure world with a myriad of adventure characters, such as Johnny West, Rat Patrol, Daniel Boone, Vikings, knights and Indians. This book is a complete guide to the over 230 Marx action figures produced, with highly detailed photos that show the boxes and accessories. 425 b&w photos.

Greenberg's Guide to Marx Toys

Author : Maxine A. Pinsky
Publisher : Greenberg Books
ISBN 13 : 9780897781008
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book Greenberg's Guide to Marx Toys written by Maxine A. Pinsky and published by Greenberg Books. This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents detailed information on Marx toy airplanes, automobiles, trucks, eccentric cars, tractors, motorcycles, and tanks manufactured from the 1920s through the 1950s. Includes product descriptions, photos, and values.

Timeless Toys

Author : Tim Walsh
Publisher : Andrews McMeel Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0740755714
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Timeless Toys written by Tim Walsh and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 2005-10 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book Why Didn't I Think of That! includes the passage "If a toy has magic, when people see it they say, 'Oooh! What is that?' . . . It appeals to the kid in everybody." That same kind of magic captures "the kid in everybody" when they pick up Timeless Toys: Classic Toys and the Playmakers Who Created Them. Timeless Toys represents one of the finest documentaries and displays of modern toys ever written. Author Tim Walsh, a successful toy inventor himself, reveals a world of commerce, toys, and wonder that is equally fun, fascinating, and nostalgic. Readers of every age and background will find it impossible to pick up this book, turn a few pages, and not become spellbound by its insightful stories and the personal memories that the text and 420 brilliantly colored photographs bring forth. Slinky, Lego, Tonka trucks, Monopoly, Big Wheel, Frisbee, Hula Hoop, Super Ball, Scrabble, Barbie, Radio Flyer Wagons: All of these and many, many more are featured in this fascinating tome, along with the toys' histories, insider profiles, and rare interviews with toy industry icons. It's simply magic!

Marx Toy Kings

Author : Russell S. Kern
Publisher : Blurb
ISBN 13 : 9781364747923
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (479 download)

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Download or read book Marx Toy Kings written by Russell S. Kern and published by Blurb. This book was released on 2015-11-24 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Softcover) The never before told biographical and industrial history of Louis Marx & Co. as told by the men who lived it, through the creation of the world's largest toy company. Louis Marx, world traveler and inventor struggles to build his company from renting toy factories to building them internationally with his brother Dave at the height of the 1920's as they seek the "red hot hit" --that toy which is so popular it sells in millionaire-making numbers climaxing with their greatest hits, the Marx Playset. It’s exciting text and rare images as Louis Marx, merry son of a poor immigrant tailor, claws his way to the top of a crowded toy world by inventing toy after toy and hiring -- through intuition and luck -- exactly the right men at precisely the right time to deliver what every toy firm needs, the “red hot hit.” Explore the formerly secret firm and hear from the men who lived the story, as Marx toys develop from primitive tin into the full-blown Marx playset of the Baby Boomer era. It is profusely illustrated and features the newly discovered, never before published scrapbooks of Louis Marx himself. MARX: TOY KINGS is intended as the complete epic, a defining work on the development of the Marx playset from the earliest days of Louis Marx & Company to its demise using factual accounts, testimonials and eye-witness interviews.This “inside-the-halls-of-Marx” story is the bountiful, definitive reference book on the Marx company and the beginning of playsets impeccably researched and written by Rusty Kern, publisher of Playset Magazine, America’s only source of information on vintage playsets and plastic figures. It is not a picture book on playsets, although playsets and toys are shown. Volume I covers 1919-1955; Volume II covers from about 1955-demise of the firm, and Volume III centers on playsets.Stay up to date by clicking your way to: www.PlaysetMagazine.com

Toy Farm Tractors

Author : Bill Vossler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781610605540
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (55 download)

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Download or read book Toy Farm Tractors written by Bill Vossler and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Marx Western Playsets

Author : Jay Horowitz
Publisher : Greenberg Books
ISBN 13 : 9780897782913
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (829 download)

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Download or read book Marx Western Playsets written by Jay Horowitz and published by Greenberg Books. This book was released on 1992 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents information about all of Marx's Western Playsets and about people who designed the dozens of types of playsets and action figures. Includes never-before-published material, such as factory specifications, from Louis Marx & Company.

The Alamo Playset

Author : Gary Toenges
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781986915816
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (158 download)

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Download or read book The Alamo Playset written by Gary Toenges and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-03-27 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I have revised my first publication to an 8.5" x 11" format. I have collected MARX Playsets for over thirty years. Until I retired they sat in my attic collecting dust. After I retired I dusted them off and set them up taking pictures which I then turned into books like this one. What I've learned from being a collector is this, at some point you have to do something with all this stuff. I've spent a lot of money over the years and in hindsight if a book like this one had been available I would have purchased it. It would have saved me money and work because setting these playsets were work and nothing like I remember as a kid playing with them. If you are a MARX toy enthusiast I believe you'll enjoy my books on these great toys. Thank you, Gary

Antiques Roadshow Collectibles

Author : Carol Prisant
Publisher : Workman Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780761128229
Total Pages : 660 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (282 download)

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Download or read book Antiques Roadshow Collectibles written by Carol Prisant and published by Workman Publishing. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers tips on identifying, collecting, and caring for furniture, photographs, posters and illustration art, costume jewelry and wristwatches, dolls, toys, advertising and sports memorabilia, and glass and pottery.

Toys and American Culture

Author : Sharon M. Scott
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313347999
Total Pages : 451 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (133 download)

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Download or read book Toys and American Culture written by Sharon M. Scott and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2009-12-09 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing developments in toy making and marketing across the evolving landscape of the 20th century, this encyclopedia is a comprehensive reference guide to America's most popular playthings and the culture to which they belong. From the origins of favorite playthings to their associations with events and activities, the study of a nation's toys reveals the hopes, goals, values, and priorities of its people. Toys have influenced the science, art, and religion of the United States, and have contributed to the development of business, politics, and medicine. Toys and American Culture: An Encyclopedia documents America's shifting cultural values as they are embedded within and transmitted by the nation's favorite playthings. Alphabetically arranged entries trace developments in toy making and toy marketing across the evolving landscape of 20th-century America. In addition to discussing the history of America's most influential toys, the book contains specific entries on the individuals, organizations, companies, and publications that gave shape to America's culture of play from 1900 to 2000. Toys from the two decades that frame the 20th century are also included, as bridges to the fascinating past—and the inspiring future—of American toys.

Post-War Tin Toys

Author : Jack Tempest
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781902328317
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (283 download)

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Download or read book Post-War Tin Toys written by Jack Tempest and published by . This book was released on 1998-12 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In all-color photographs, it focuses on the post-WWII period during which tin toy production flourished. Special features include information on the prominent postwar toy manufacturers, current-day revivals, and an appendix that lists each manufacturer, its origins and trademarks, and a listing of international toy museums.

Marx Lazy Day Farm

Author : Gary Toenges
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781974340323
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Marx Lazy Day Farm written by Gary Toenges and published by . This book was released on 2017-08-06 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MARX Toy Playsets from the 1950's & 60's were a great value for their price. I didn't have a Farm set, but, had to have one when I began collecting MARX Toys. It took some time setting this playset up for the photo shoot. I have to say this project turned out to be a lot of work. I hope you enjoy it.

Kids' Stuff

Author : Gary Cross
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674030077
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Kids' Stuff written by Gary Cross and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1999-11-15 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To sort out who's who and what's what in the enchanting, vexing world of Barbies(R) and Ninja Turtles(R), Tinkertoys(R) and teddy bears, is to begin to see what's become of childhood in America. It is this changing world, and what it unveils about our values, that Gary Cross explores in Kids' Stuff, a revealing look into the meaning of American toys through this century. Early in the 1900s toys reflected parents' ideas about children and their futures. Erector sets introduced boys to a realm of business and technology, while baby dolls anticipated motherhood and building blocks honed the fine motor skills of the youngest children. Kids' Stuff chronicles the transformation that occurred as the interests and intentions of parents, children, and the toy industry gradually diverged--starting in the 1930s when toymakers, marketing playthings inspired by popular favorites like Shirley Temple and Buck Rogers, began to appeal directly to the young. TV advertising, blockbuster films like Star Wars(R), and Saturday morning cartoons exploited their youthful audience in new and audacious ways. Meanwhile, powerful social and economic forces were transforming the nature of play in American society. Cross offers a richly textured account of a culture in which erector sets and baby dolls are no longer alone in preparing children for the future, and in which the toys that now crowd the racks are as perplexing for parents as they are beguiling for little boys and girls. Whether we want our children to be high achievers in a competitive world or playful and free from the worries of adult life, the toy store confronts us with many choices. What does the endless array of action figures and fashion dolls mean? Are children--or parents--the dupes of the film, television, and toy industries, with their latest fads and fantasies? What does this say about our time, and what does it bode for our future? Tapping a vein of rich cultural history, Kids' Stuff exposes the serious business behind a century of playthings.