Toys & Prices: The World's Best Toys Price Guide Paperback – May 22, 2013

The 19th edition of Toys and Prices by Mark Bellomo is a must have reference book for both novice and advanced collectors. There are over 800 pages of toys and prices from 1950 to into 2007 which are easy to look up and gives the user a good idea as to which toys are more valuable in that category. Prices are given for each toy as either loose NM new mint , or MIP mint in package. I found the book prices to be in line with current sold prices on popular auction sites. For example, I looked up an old 1950's toy cap gun made by Hubley. The book value for this was $115.00 in excellent condition. The one I found at auction sold for $77.00 plus $11.50 for shipping, and it was not in excellent condition. I realize prices are subjective and usually always depends on the number of buyers interested in an item at that time.All photos are in black and white except for 8 pages in the middle of the book which have color photos of a few of the older toys from the 1960's to 1990, such as Hot Wheels, G.I. Joe, Star Wars, and planet of the Apes, and two pages of color photos of lunch boxes. The table of content list all toys starting with action figures, and going all the way to Star Trek, Star Wars, Transformers, and everything in between. My wife even looked up some of her older and newer Barbie dolls. All in all this is a very good price and reference guide, it's well researched and thought out in an easy to read format. You won't want to be without this book. Hope this helped.

Mark Bellomo, author of other must-have publications like The Ultimate Guide to GI Joe, Transformers Identification and Price Guide, and Totally Tubular '80s Toys, offers yet another exhaustively researched and fascinating reference guide. Toys and Prices is over 800 pages and is categorized and presented in a very user-friendly and logical manner. While the guide starts with action figures (my passion) and also includes extensive GI Joe and Star Wars sections, the other areas such as Barbie, Fisher-Price, lunch boxes, PEZ, vehicles, and western toys make for interesting reading to a collector or anyone who grew up in any of the represented eras. Toys and Prices is very reasonably priced and will look great on your shelf next to the author's other books as well as your copies of Tomart and Sansweet books.

The Toy Guide was thicker than I thought and was not filled with pictures. It’s perfect for a true Toy collector but I basically wanted to just go down memory lane and view some of my childhood treasures. I was disappointed not in product but that I did not purchase an actual pictorial.

Just like to look through and recall childhood memories.

Great Product...super fast shippin...came in at exactly as described..takes alot of pressure off when that happens..Thank You Very Much..Great Job.Transactions this smooth deserve future considerations.

If you're a serious WIND-UP toy collector, under NO circumstances should you buy this book. This is THE most incomplete toy price guide I've ever seen and would consider it totally useless. The only reason I haven't returned it to Amazon is because I don't want to waste the money on return postage since it's neither the wrong size, color or damaged. A MUST TO AVOID!!!!!!!!

Wasn't as complete as I thought it would be.

Purchased for my husband. Loves to collect old toys & he was very happy with this book.