KEJU Books For Toys

[AUSSIE]

Keju
I think one of the books you may be after is called.
I Made It Myself byA.C. Horth from batsford Ltd FP 1941 SP1942
3rd publication 1947
It has 1 Fighting Parrots
Gymnast
Monkey on a stick
Miller & Mill
Glider
Model Airoplane
Cliff Railway
Step Dancer
Tumbling Man
Simple Balance
Goose Girl
Windmill
Cut-out Farm Animals
Barn
Farm Buildings
Farm Cart
Model Crane
Motor Car
Pole Cart
Doll's House
Furniture for Dolls House
Floor Trains
Pheew and 20 more items to make.
120 pages
Also has whistles.
and a dangerous looking catapult.
Book is only 5" x 7 1/2" With a pink cover
Cant let book go as I will be using it alot now
I dug it out of some books I had had as a kid.
I think my father made me some toys from this book.
well worth chasing Juvy
http://mindsontoys.com/diy.htm (http://mindsontoys.com/diy.htm) another lead

[keju]

You know how to make someone drool! that's exactly what I'm after.
Did a search.... seems the only available copies are located in Britain... that makes them a bit pricy ones you add shipping....
Will check our library system and see if it's anywhere in Australia...... but last time I asked they told me if it's outside of our own system it can cost up to $!4 just to borrow it! grrrrrrrr

Thanks for the information
Juvy

[keju]

just tried the other book searches and the libray one.... books only available in a NZ library..... There are a few places in the US, but don't think they'd borrow one out to us here! lol
I'll keep looking...

Juvy

[Juffy]

just tried the other book searches and the libray one.... books only available in a NZ library..... There are a few places in the US, but don't think they'd borrow one out to us here! lol
I'll keep looking...

Juvy

Abe Books has a few results for it:
http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?an=Horth&sts=t&tn=I+Made+It+Myself&x=0&y=0

Looked at the rates for a couple of them, and I reckon you could get it landed here for less than $30 if you're not fussy about condition.

[keju]

don't care about condition, after all it is to be used, but $30 bucks is still a bit high .... got to add credit card cross border fee too.... really don't like using credit card overseas, too hard to fix if things go wrong.

Juvy

[Juffy]

don't care about condition, after all it is to be used, but $30 bucks is still a bit high ...

*shrug* May turn out to be your only option though...one of the Abe Books results came in at $US17 shipped, so ~ $A21 and they take Paypal as well as CCs. I've ordered obscure books from UK sellers through Abe before and had zero problems.

Slightly OT...found another book by Arthur Horth:

http://henrietta.liswa.wa.gov.au/search~S1?/aHorth,+Arthur/ahorth+arthur/-3,-1,0,B/frameset&FF=ahorth+arthur&1,1,


Wartime brought with it many problems for the housewife to solve and this book presents great nuggets of advice for the blitz- weary householder. Includes such gems as how to knit for the troops and make cases for gas masks.

...such a different world. :o

[AUSSIE]

:DWow Juffy
There will be a run on that book ,now we all know about it.Just what we all need .:D

[Juffy]

You can never be too prepared, mate. Alert, not alarmed, remember? :U