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For a collector with a passion for pocket-sized racers, access to updated pricing and photos of your favorite "compact cars," along with the tools to make the most of every collecting opportunity is a collecting essential. Compact and organized, with listings for a variety of cars, this book allows you access to details while you're at a show, or in the hobby shop. With price listings for each car, collector advice, and contact information for hundreds of groups and associations, this small-size guide truly represents the idea that great things come in small packages..
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With all the zany vibrancy of a Bollywood musical, the colorful matchbox labels of LIGHT OF INDIA present a fascinating confluence of popular culture and a sophisticated graphic arts tradition that stretches back for centuries. Populated with pouncing Bengal tigers, regal jungle elephants, and Hindu gods and goddesses, these miniature masterpieces are worlds unto themselves, skillfully illustrated with a naive yet irresistible charm. This delightful art book is sure to fire the imagination of all who wish to study, preserve, and celebrate India's more humble, but no less brilliant, visual arts heritage..
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Our fourth edition promises to be the most user-friendly Matchbox collector's guide ever produced While most publications on this subject are organized by model number or year of introduction, this book is arranged alphabetically by model name and description. Well over a thousand photographs are included in this latest edition, with multiple variations pictured of selected models, all incorporated into a cohesive guide to early Lesney models, the Matchbox basic (1 - 75) series, Two-Packs, Matchbox Collectibles, 2004 values. AUTHORBIO: Dana Johnson is an authority on collectible toy cars, including Matchbox, Hot Wheels, and many diecast models. His extensive personal collection includes mostly diecast models from all over the world. He has written several books: Matchbox Toys, 1947 to 2003, Toy Car Collector's Guide, and Collector's Guide to Diecast Toys & Scale Models. REVIEW: This book will have collectors racing to the bookstores. It is an all-new revised edition, this time organized alphabetically by model name and description for ease in identification. Well over 1,000 photographs are included..
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A Sreet Sweeper cleans up after a street fair, then returns to the garage so it can be cleaned up, too.

Follow the Street Sweeper on its adventure then make up adventures for your own Street Sweeper.

Includes Driving Lessons: tips for parents on using this story to teach shape and pattern recognition..
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It's all here! Fifty-four years of toys! The toys pictured and listed in this book represent the immense volume of items produced from 1947, when the Matchbox company was founded, to mid-2001, including their popular diecast vehicles along with playsets, dolls, plastic kits, robots, and ephemera all in one massive volume--now in its third edition! The international scope of Matchbox toys is illustrated through catalogs, boxes, and labels on toys printed in a dozen languages. Certain toys have been made for sale in specific countries or to promote specific companies or products. The numbering system on miniatures changed in 1982 when worldwide toys began different numbering systems. The result of all these variables is a fascinating and infinite variety of Matchbox toys..
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What looks like a big metal dinosaur and has sharp teeth that can tear down buildings?

Learn how this machine bites off parts of dangerous buildings and knocks them down!.
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TOW! Leo drives a flatbed tow truck. All day, the big truck hauls vehicles that get stuck -- even an airplane! Drive along with Leo and his truck as they help out.

Towing is hard work!.
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