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Summary: A handbook for a Lee Middleton doll lover
Review: This book is a real "must have" for a Lee Middleton doll collector. It reviews the production of the Lee Middleton Company from the beginning to year 1999.Beacause many of the Lee Middleton doll collectors are very familiar of Reva Schick's, the company's present designer's production, the most valuable thing in the book is Lee's early production. The book shows with chronologically ordered pictures of dolls how Lee Middleton company's style was developed. I started to appreciate the dolls in the different way after reading this book. The main part the book is focused on are prices. All Lee Middleton Company's production is listed and priced. That makes a book very nice handbook for a doll collector. There are also plenty of doll photos in the book. The price lists and photos really make book more a catalog than a book. There are only few actual articles in the book: stories about Lee and Reva, the designers, and some other fairly short chapters. What I really missed were the presentation of different head molds and lists of dolls by head mold. Many collectors are very interested on different head molds and the purpose of many collection is to show different head molds. There were plenty of photos, but most of them have been published in catalogs and web pages many times before. I would have loved to see more photos taken for this book only. Instead of giving prices of the dolls, Larry Koon could have given a price range which would have shown better that the value of a doll highly depends on the condition of the doll.
Rating:
Summary: A handbook for a Lee Middleton doll lover
Review: This book is a real "must have" for a Lee Middleton doll collector. It reviews the production of the Lee Middleton Company from the beginning to year 1999. Beacause many of the Lee Middleton doll collectors are very familiar of Reva Schick's, the company's present designer's production, the most valuable thing in the book is Lee's early production. The book shows with chronologically ordered pictures of dolls how Lee Middleton company's style was developed. I started to appreciate the dolls in the different way after reading this book. The main part the book is focused on are prices. All Lee Middleton Company's production is listed and priced. That makes a book very nice handbook for a doll collector. There are also plenty of doll photos in the book. The price lists and photos really make book more a catalog than a book. There are only few actual articles in the book: stories about Lee and Reva, the designers, and some other fairly short chapters. What I really missed were the presentation of different head molds and lists of dolls by head mold. Many collectors are very interested on different head molds and the purpose of many collection is to show different head molds. There were plenty of photos, but most of them have been published in catalogs and web pages many times before. I would have loved to see more photos taken for this book only. Instead of giving prices of the dolls, Larry Koon could have given a price range which would have shown better that the value of a doll highly depends on the condition of the doll.
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