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Barbie: Her Life & Times

by BillyBoy, Boy Billy · 1987

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BillyBoy, owner of the world's largest Barbie doll collection (20,000 dolls and counting), charts the history of this protean American dream girl in a good-humored and affectionate retrospective. Illustrations.

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Audience
adult
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short · 192 pages

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