Lucky’s Collectors Guide to 20th Century Yo-Yos

Lucky’s Collectors Guide to 20th Century Yo-Yos

Infobox Book |
name = Lucky's Collectors Guide to 20th Century Yo-Yos


image_caption = Cover of the First edition of "Lucky's Collectors Guide to 20th Century Yo-Yos"
author = Lucky Meisenheimer
cover_artist = T. Brown
country = United States
language = English
genre = Reference
publisher = LJ Swim & Surf
release_date = July 1, 1999
media_type = Print (Paperback)
pages = 256 pp (Paperback edition)
isbn = ISBN 0-9667612-0-0 (Paperback edition)

Lucky’s Collectors Guide to 20th Century Yo-Yos is a catalog of yo-yos manufactured largely in the United States from the twentieth century. Produced by Lucky Meisenheimer, M.D., the Guinness World Record holder for the largest Yo-Yo collection, the book features the history of the yo-yo as well as a price guide. Over one thousand photographs of yo-yos and memorabilia are listed in the book. Collectors frequently use his numbering system to indentify particular yo-yos. A first edition copy of this book is included in the Smithsonian Institution collection donated by Don Duncan Jr. [Orlando Sentinel 3/6/2002] [http://www.auctionbytes.com/cab/abu/y205/m01/abu0135/s06] [http://nosebleed.com/yo-yo/bookrev/lucky.html]

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External Links

http://www.yo-yos.net


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