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Kitschmasland: Christmas Decor from the 1950s Through the 1970s (Schiffer Book for...
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Price Last Updated : 5-19-2012
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Features
Paperback: 159 pages
Publisher: Schiffer Publishing December 8, 2005
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0764323563
ISBN-13: 978-0764323560
Product Dimensions:
8.4 x 10.9 x 0.5 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
Reader Reviews
You might think, as I did, from the cover photo that this was a nostalgic visual treat of Christmas décor. It certainly contains plenty of festive items but the giveaway are the cover words: With Price Guide. It is actually a collector's guide to decorations from one of the leading publishers for this market. Books for collectors are basically plenty of individual photos (mostly no better than snaps) of items from whoever owns the largest collection, whether it's Barbie dolls, Fostoria glass, baseball cards or Avon bottles. From my experience the layout and typography are rather heavy handed and very dull as it is with this book. The back cover says there are more than four hundred photos, no doubt very true but they are of individual decorations just placed on a white background, snapped and placed randomly on the page with a too thick black box round each and a caption below. For collectors this might be fine but for anyone else who wants to capture the festive glow of a fifties or sixties childhood I thought the book was a real disappointment. It is possible to be creative with collectors material, Beckett Publications did some wonderful looking books of Coca-Cola collectibles. The book also includes several interior photos of collectors homes with their Christmas decorations displayed on mid-century décor. Mostly these are very unimaginative photos, badly cropped and displayed on the page in an uninteresting way. Three pages in the book did catch my eye though, they show nineteen LP covers of festive season music. None of the covers are anything special but seen together they create their own interest (publishers: how about a book of these Christmas LP covers? Surely a few hundred must have been released over the years). A book that does capture the commercial holiday season quite well is Christmas Wishes: A Catalog of Vintage Holiday Treats and Treasures (Antiques Collectables) by Tim Hollis. Though the book is nothing special to look at it does contains a few hundred photos of goodies from your local five and dime, ads, music covers and more, a rather super nostalic visual treat. Kitschmasland! didn't capture it for me.
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Kitschmasland: Christmas Decor from the 1950s Through the 1970s (Schiffer Book for...
by Travis Smith and Skip Przywara
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on 5-19-2012
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