German Kathe Kruse Dolls - History Types Names Dates / Book + Price Guide

Description

Profusely illustrated in color, this early book is a definitive pictorial guide to antique dolls  made by Kathe Kruse.
THE BELOVED KATHIE KRUSE DOLLS – YESTERDAY AND TODAY
by Lydia Richter, Hobby House Press, Inc., 1983.
“Lydia Richter is the first author, worldwide, to write a book that gives all the information about the dolls produced by Kathe Kruse.  She has standardized, catalogued and photographed them in color, and described in detail the various head and body features of the legendary Doll I, as well as disclosed the sensational and controversial contract she signed with the well-known doll manufacturer, Kammer & Reinhardt, in 1910. This book is filled with new facts and knowledge that will enable collectors to protect themselves from buying Kruse-Dolls at unrealistic prices.  It will also help them to build up their collection of Kathe-Kruse-Dolls.  Readers will share the joys and sorrows of one of the most important German doll makers, as well her successes and failures, many of them taken from quotes from German newspapers and magazine articles.  The palette of early Kruse-Dolls, as well as those made after 1945 are disclosed in detail for the first time in this very important book.”
6.1” x 8.7” softback in very good condition.  112 pages.
Includes 1984 5-page Price Guide Supplement.
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