THE COLLECTOR’S ENCYCLOPEDIA OF METAL TOYS – A Pictorial Guide to Over 2,500 Examples of Tinplate and Diecast Toys Dating From 1850 to the Present Day   compiled by Richard O’Neill, Crescent Books, NY, 1988.
Superb color photographs highlight this early out-of-print book which pictures and identifies more than 1,500 antique metal toys and over 1,000 toy soldiers produced between 1850 and 1980.
This comprehensive pictorial guide covers by chapter:  Mechanical Novelty Toys; Toy Cars; Transport Toys; Toy Trains; Toy Ships and Boats; Toy Aeroplanes
Airplanes); Toy Soldiers; and Toymakers’ Packaging and Catalogues.  “Compiled by a team of experts, all collectors in their own fields, this book surveys the metal playthings produced by the world’s toymakers in the period c.1850-1980.  As well as the German ‘classics’, the reader will find examples of toys from the leading makers of the United States of America, France, Italy, Japan and the Far East, Spain and the United Kingdom, and other countries.  All the famous names are here:  “American Flyer, Arnold, Bandai, Bassett-Lowke, Bing, Britains, Carette, Citreon, Corgi, Dinky, Heinrichsen, Heyde, Hornby, Ives, Jep, Kingsbury, Lehmann, Lionel, Marklin, Marx, Mignot, Schucho, Solido, Stock, Tipp, and Triang, along with a host of other makers.”  This book is an invaluable reference guide for the serious collector, dealer, or historian of antique and vintage tin and diecast toys.
8.8” x 12.2” hardback with dust cover in very good condition (dust cover has a small "puzzle-piece" edge chip).  320 pages.
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