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Books : Halloween Merrymaking: An Illustrated Celebration Of Fun, Food, And Frolics From Halloweens PastIn association with Amazon.comby: Diane C. Arkins  List Price: $19.95 Amazon.com's Price: $13.57 You Save: $6.38 (32%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Binding: HardcoverDewey Decimal Number: 394.2646 EAN: 9781589801134 ISBN: 158980113X Label: Pelican Publishing Company Manufacturer: Pelican Publishing Company Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 112 Publication Date: September 15, 2004 Publisher: Pelican Publishing Company Studio: Pelican Publishing Company Sales Rank: 287162 Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: Halloween celebrations from the 1890s to the 1930s are considered the Golden Age of what is now the fastest-growing holiday in the USA. This colourful book is a celebration in itself, a tribute to the mirthful and innocent revels of yesteryear presented with vintage photographs, decorative images, prose, and poetry. Recipes, games, costumes, party ideas, and decorations, along with excerpts from vintage periodicals, show the gaiety that epitomised historic Halloween celebrations with merry conviviality, vibrant imagery, and unbridled fun. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - A VINTAGE LOOK AT HALLOWEENWe Americans tend to be somewhat near-sighted in our view of Halloween in thinking that our celebration of the day is relatively a modern fascination. And, in truth, Halloween has boomed in the past twenty years to become second only to Christmas in decorating and celebrating the season. As Diane C. Arkins shows in this wonderful book, however, Halloween has been widely celebrated for well over one hundred years and this book concentrates on what Arkins calls Halloween's golden age from the 1870's ... Read More Rating: - A lively survey of festivities and small color photosHalloween Merrymaking: An Illustrated Celebration Of Fun, Food, And Frolics From Halloweens Past by Diane Arkins is a very fine year-round family or community library acquisition illustrating the Halloween celebration of fun, food and holiday partying. This is no repeat history: material from a range of the vintage party guides and magazines that guided hostesses in their party-giving endeavors is presented and showcased in a lively survey of festivities and small color photos. Rating: - A delightful journey into Halloween's pastA most thoroughly enjoyable book about Halloween. Wonderfully written and beautifully illustrated it takes you back to a bygone era of Halloween celebratons. A must have book for anyone who is interested in vintage Halloween. Rating:  - A mostly-charming treat...just one trick.I awaited the release of this book with keen anticipation, and overall, find it a delightful retrospective of Halloween celebrations of days gone by. The excerpts from vintage magazines and party guides are charming. My chief complaint lies with the design and treatment of the visuals in the book - they are painfully small. At such a reduced size, they don't allow the reader to fully appreciate the charm of the vintage advertisements, postcards, invitations and photos of costumed revelers. Rating:  - Good Day To You, Sweet Autumn: So Gently You Appear Diane C. Arkins' Halloween Merrymaking: An Illustrated Celebration of Fun, Food, and Frolics from Halloweens Past (2004) offers a poignant but hopeful glimpse back into American high culture and the "Golden Age of American Halloween," which the author locates between 1870 and the early 1930s. Today, many deny that such a high culture ever existed in this country, or, if willing to make such an admission, will tar that culture as "elitist" and "oppressive." Yet, at present, Americans everywhere ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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