Arcade Toys (Catalogue #33 in Facsimile)

Freeport, IL: Arcade Mfg. Co. (Noble House), 1988. Pictorial wrappers. Near Fine. Lovely 1988 facsimile re-issue of this wonderfully-illustrated catalogue of iron toys made by Arcade Toys of Freeport, IL, circa 1925. Focusing largely on its line of toy trucks and cars, the catalogue also gives its due --in the form of elaborate black-and-white and color engravings-- to other "iron" toys such as toy banks, toy lawn mowers, toy windmills, jack sets, toy trains, toy circus wagons, toy wheel barrows, etc. The catalogue is bright and clean and Near Fine in its pictorial wrappers. Octavo, 212 pgs. all told.