Contemporary Barbie: Barbie Dolls 1980 and Beyond

by Jane Sarasohn-Kahn

Book Overview

This new edition brings the history of the modern Barbie "RM" doll up to date. Covers current market trends, and forecasts the future of the Barbie doll and collecting. This edition provides more... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0930625285
• ISBN13: 9780930625283
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Antique Trader Books
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.4" x 10.9"

Customer Reviews

Fantastic

This is a beautiful book the Barbies are wonderful!! The information content is interesting. This is truly a book for Barbie lovers who like myself cannot afford to buy all the Barbies that we love!

The Best Barbie Book in Existence!

I don't collect Barbie dolls -- I collect books on Barbie dolls. And Jane Sarasohn-Kahn's books are my all-time favorites."Contemporary Barbie" showcases Mattel dolls from the eighties to the present, in more-or-less chronological order. Thoroughly researched and beautifully photographed, this is the best book on the topic of Barbie dolls. "Contemporary Barbie" is more of an artistic exploration of Barbies than a collectors guide, but this edition contains new, revised information about the dolls issued and their market values. I keep this lovely book on the table, and even non-Barbie-lovers can't resist picking it up and thumbing through it."Contemporary Barbie" may disappoint some because it only covers dolls made in and after 1980. But the last twenty years has been a rich period in Barbie history, done justice only by this fabulous book.