Collectables 7


70822 VINTAGE SWIMWEAR by Sarah Kennedy


From the pintucked Edwardian swimsuit which left almost no flesh showing to today’s beach volleyball outfits designed to reveal the maximum amount of well-toned body, the swimsuit is a fascinating barometer of changing social attitudes. When Louis Reard “invented” the bikini in 1946, celebrating a new post-war emphasis on having fun, he was not in fact first in the field, and young models like Marilyn Monroe were already posing in the swimwear two-piece. Reard’s first bikini was so minimal that people were reluctant to wear it, and it took Bardot’s glamour in the 1950s to bring it into the mainstream, a position cemented by Ursula Andress’s spectacular rise from the waves as a Bond girl in 1962. Although sea-bathing had been popular in the 19th century and Regency women exploited the sexy effects of wet muslin, fashion swimwear finally took off after World War I on the beaches of California. Jantzen was the designer of 1940s structured one-piece swimsuits worn by stars such as Betty Grable and Jayne Mansfield eager to display their assets. The 60s and 70s celebrated a much skinnier figure, now enhanced by a deep tan, while the health conscious 80s and 90s moved fashion towards a well-muscled body, though the voluptuous look never really went out, as shown in a 1997 shot of Eva Herzigova modelling Alexander McQueen. An


absorbing fashion and social history. 304pp, softback, colour photos throughout, list of designers and brands.


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boots to pedicures, tips on streamlining your collection and picking new essentials. Ending with some fabulous quotes. Photos throughout, many in colour. 200pp. £9.99 NOW £4


69794 MILLER’S CARE AND REPAIR OF


ANTIQUES AND COLLECTABLES by Judith Miller


The revised and fully updated step-by-step guide to furniture, cane work, upholstery, leatherwork, textiles, rugs and carpets, ceramics, glassware, metal ware, jewellery, stoneware, art and prints, books and photographs, dolls, bears and toys, plastics, plus a directory of suppliers. In this practical reference book, expert Judith Miller provides us with information on how to clean the family Christening robe or your favourite teddy bear or Barbie, remove the bloom from a sherry decanter, how to polish a pewter tankard, whether it is safe to put your silver plate and old china in the dishwasher, and if you can use modern cleaning products on antique items. With specialist tricks of the trade and new sections covering caring for modern furniture, books, maps, prints and more. 288pp, 10" x 8½”, colour photos. £25 NOW £9


69882 COMPLETE GUIDE TO STAMPS AND


STAMP COLLECTING by Dr James Mackay A comprehensive, colourful directory of the world’s greatest stamps and the history and evolution of the postage stamp. Early philatelists used albums printed with an image of each stamp, and stuck genuine stamps over the images as they obtained them. However, the range of stamps grew so quickly, that by the early 20th century, this had to be abandoned in favour of albums with printed stamp-sized squares. Collectors nowadays like to arrange their stamps artistically. Over 3000 colour photos. Softback, 10½” x 9", 256pp. ONLY £6


67955 CULT WATCHES by Michael Balfour The top thirty wristwatches with world cult status are miniature works of art, and they are superbly photographed in this informative book which also links them up with associated people and places. The iconic Cartier Tank series was first launched in 1919, inspired by the Renault tank designs in World War I. The Rolex Submariner is a diver’s watch with a long history, starting with the patenting of the water-resistant Rolex Oyster in 1926 and moving on to variations such as the Sea-Dweller 4000 of 1978 which could be worn over the top of a diving-suit. Elegance of design is also a must. 192pp, softback, colour photos. £18.95 NOW £5


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70532 BRITAINS TOY MODELS CATALOGUES 1970 TO 1979 + compiled by David Pullen


The toys and models produced by the famous firm Britains have always been known for their realism and play value, and here they are in all their glory. Since releasing its first toy soldiers in 1893 using a new hollow casting process, Britains has produced thousands of dramatic military and civil models, including the popular Home Farm series. In the 1970s the annual catalogues contained between 340 and 370 items, such as motorcycles, farm vehicles, farm animals, soldiers, guns, garden miniatures and zoo animals. The decade also saw Britains release over 400 new products, including figures that replaced the Eye Right and Swoppets lines, new metal models, and a helicopter. There was also a big expansion of farm models, like the first combine harvester, for which Britains received the 1878 Toy Of The Year Award. This book includes reprints of the annual consumer toy models catalogues from the 1970s. 303 pages 21cm by 14.5 cm in very bright colour, with comprehensive indices


comprising index by name and index by catalogue number.


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70060 101 EXTRAORDINARY INVESTMENTS: Curious, Unusual and Bizarre Ways to Make Money - A Handbook for the Adventurous Collector by Toby Walne


Investing need not be a bore and, with the help of this innovative book, you too can join in the fun, learn essential trading tips, gain contact info and enjoy cash returns. Inspired by adventurers of the Victorian era who hunted for everything from orchids to shrunken heads, here is a compelling and practical exploration of curious and unusual ways to make money, by an award-winning national journalist who specialises in alternative investments. From corkscrews to cocktail shakers, feudal titles to fishing tackle and seaside sauce to ski posters, there is hidden money just waiting to jump into your pocket. Excuse us while we rush to dust off our old vinyl records. 306 pages, line drawings, gold- tooled cover.


£12.99 NOW £5 70123 BRITISH DOLLS OF


THE 1950s by Susan Brewer The frilly little charmer on the cover will steal your heart, as will the rest of the endearing collectable characters in this book. This informative book will appeal to both collectors and those who are feeling nostalgic because it introduces an often undervalued market. As well as the history of the most important


doll manufacturers, you will discover more about accessories, such as shoe sizes, how to spot fakes, and warnings about hard plastic disease. The volume covers all types of dolls, including plush, composite and plastic. The decade’s important events, such as the Coronation and the Festival of Britain were commemorated by dolls, and the plastic form enabled more animation than ever before, so the Festival doll could walk, talk and even dance. 186 pages with bright colour photos, 1950s timeline, lists of where to see dolls in the UK, and doll hospitals. All copies are SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. £19.99 NOW £8.50


70124 BRITISH DOLLS OF THE 1960s by Susan Brewer


The sixties saw the advent of the Beatles, the Great Train Robbery, the first supermodel Twiggy and England’s World Cup win. Vinyl had replaced the hard plastic of the fifties and American Barbie dolls moved the market on towards “teen dolls”, role models with a style that young girls could aspire to. Dolls were almost all white with blonde hair. The British Mattel Twiggy doll, based on Barbie’s friend Casey, had short, straight hair and heavy eye make-up. Other trade-marks were Pedigree, Palitoy, Faerie Glen, Roddy and Rosebud. The Rosebud teen doll was a dainty model with strappy high heels, but soon Pedigree’s 12-inch Sindy doll swept the market. Sindy’s boyfriend Paul was probably named after the cutest Beatle and had a slightly wimpish air and rooted hair, while Sindy’s young sister Patch in dungarees was a favourite with younger children. British girls liked a tomboy, and Palitoy also introduced the first Action Man in 1966. Meanwhile the baby doll market was expanding with models like Palitoy’s Tiny Tears who could cry when pressed. The final chapter includes advice on collecting and preserving your vintage dolls. 239pp, colour and archive photos. All copies are SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR (see right). £25 NOW £8.50


CRIME


It is illegal to make liquor privately or water publicly.


- Lord Birkett 70821 ILLUSTRATED


HISTORY OF TORTURE: From the Roman Empire to the War on Terror by Jack Vernon


This comprehensive book deals with 26 different forms of torture, from Roman gladiatorial combat to the contemporary practice of waterboarding. Numerous reproductions and facsimiles of original documents explain the


judicial, physical and personal angles. In the Medieval era, trial by ordeal frequently involved water torture, and treason was punished by hanging, drawing and quartering. The strappado was a favourite torture of the Inquisition, inflicting similar effects to crucifixion. A facsimile wallet includes this authorisation together with Torquemada’s Instructions, Guy Fawkes’s confession and a poem by the French writer Villon who was water- tortured in 1462. Human experimentation was used during World War II not only by the Nazis but also in the notorious Japanese Unit 731, and other modern tortures include drugs and psycho-chemicals, which according to Dr Frank Olson have been employed by the US military. Olson developed the programme and then alleged that he became a victim of it. The book ends with the Declaration of Human Rights. 60pp, numerous reproductions, facsimile documents and four inserts in document wallets, bibliography. £20 NOW £7.50


70794 CRIME ARCHIVES: Inside the Minds of Today’s Deadliest Criminals by Damon Wilson


Some of the 28 criminals who feature here got away with their crimes over a long period, for instance Fred and Rose West are known to have killed at least 10 victims and possibly many more. Suspicions were raised when they were heard threatening to put their children “under the patio”. After


Fred committed suicide it was clear that Rose had been his accomplice, but Harold Shipman’s wife Primrose is


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considered innocent of suspicion. Shipman killed to feed his godlike self-esteem whereas the Wests had a sexual motive. The Austrian kidnappers Josef Fritzl and Wolfgang Priklopil wanted both power and sex, and their victims have suggested that they were able to escape detection for so long because the ideology of the Nazi years had not been sufficiently outlawed from Austrian society. School shootings such as the Virginia and Columbine massacres are often perpetrated by disaffected students, but the Dunblane primary school massacre by Thomas Hamilton was a revenge killing following his dismissal as a scoutmaster. 62pp, fully illustrated with photos on every page, four document wallets with inserts of evidence and material. £19.99 NOW £6.50


70806 INSIDE THE KRAY FAMILY


by Joe Lee and Rita Smith Cousins of Reg and Ronnie Kray, Joe actually lived under the same roof as his cousins with their brother Charlie and their tempestuous parents. Private and loyal, the cousins have never spoken before about their family in public and here have collaborated with the bestselling author of The Guv’nor


Peter Gerrard to share their thoughts and personal memories. Joe was introduced to his first cousins when they were just one hour old and remained close to them all their lives. Now in his 80s, he lives near Southend. Rita Smith, née Lee, lives in Bethnal Green overlooking the site of the Kray and Lee family homes in Valance Road. Despite being their first cousin, Rita was always looked upon as a younger sister by the Kray brothers. With a good many family photos, some in colour including ones of the tragic young wife, Frances. 256pp in paperback.


£8.99 NOW £3.50 70819 STREETWISE


SPYCRAFT by Barry Davies Streetwise Spycraft shows you exactly what spies and other agents, acting both legally, illegally or in that shadowy grey area in between, do, and how they do it. Handling other agents, coding, tracking, escape, evasion, surveillance, identity theft, document forgery, recording


information, methods of entry, sabotage of vehicles, self- defence techniques, infiltration of gangs, cyberspying and much more are explained in detail, skills that the general public would not have dreamt of using, or even knowing about a few years ago. 176pp pocket softback with line illus.


£9.99 NOW £3.50 70543 IL DOTTORE: The


Double Life of a Mafia Doctor by Ron Felber


Here is a tense, real-life tale of a doctor torn between his loyalty to La Cosa Nostra and his devotion to the Hippocratic Oath. Through a series of circumstances, he had become a mafia insider, and physician to top New York Mafia Dons such as John Gotti, Carlo Gambino, Paul Castellano and Joe Bonanno. By day he was a well


respected surgeon and socialite but by night he turned into a gambler and sex addict. He was welcomed into an exciting and often glamorous underworld of drugs and beautiful women while at the same time becoming one of the nation’s leading cardiac surgeons. His world came crashing down in the mid-1980s, when the heads of the five New York Mafia families were imprisoned. The pivotal point of the doctor’s career came when the government’s star witness, Ralph Scopo, lay on his operating table and he was asked to perform bypass heart surgery. The Mafia had threatened him with a dreadful fate if the witness survived, but the Attorney General vowed that he would ruin the surgeon’s career if Scopo were to die. Talk about Catch 22! What followed is more exciting then any work of fiction. 278 pages. £17.99 NOW £6


70825 THE WOMAN WHO MURDERED BABIES FOR MONEY by Alison Rattle and Allison Vale


The true story of Amelia Dyer whose 1879 advert read: ’14, Poole’s Crescent - Respectable person wants a child to nurse.’ Behind the façade of a simple newspaper advertisement lurked a deadly secret. Hundreds of women responded to the opportunity


offered by this innocuous-looking statement such as this of a home for their illegitimate children. While Victorian England rocked to the bloody revelations of the crimes of Jack the Ripper, a silent but more prolific murderer was at large. For almost 30 years, Amelia Dyer killed babies for a living. Abandoned, poisoned, suffocated, battered or starved to death, their bodies were found drifting in rivers or wrapped in brown paper, discarded like old rags. The mystery of the woman who murdered babies for money has remained one of Britain’s best-kept secrets - until now. 256pp in paperback with eight pages of sepia plates.


£7.99 NOW £3.50 70354 EDGAR ALLAN POE AND THE MURDER


OF MARY ROGERS by Daniel Stashower On 28th July 1841, the battered body of a young woman was found floating in the Hudson River, pulled ashore by fishermen. It was discovered to be the lovely Mary Rogers, a 20 year old cigar salesgirl who had gone missing three days earlier. By nightfall, news of the girl’s death had spread and the city was in horror and outrage. The crime remained unsolved. A year after Mary was murdered, a struggling writer named Edgar Allan Poe decided to take on the case. At the time of the murder, the 31 year old had recently published his groundbreaking detective story ‘The Murders on the Rue Morgue.’ Desperate for success, he sent his famous detective C. Auguste Dupin on the case of a lifetime - to solve the baffling mystery of Mary Rogers in ‘The Mystery of Marie Roget.’ 326 pages with lovely woodcut illus.


£16.99 NOW £6 e-mail: orders@bibliophilebooks.com 68342 STALIN’S NEMESIS: The Exile and


Murder of Leon Trotsky by Bertrand M. Patenaude


The ice-pick assassination of Leon Trotsky in Mexico on the evening of 20 August 1940 (he died of his injuries the following day) by Ramon Mercader, a agent of the NKVD, Stalin’s secret police, is the most notorious of the 20th century’s political murders. By WWII, Stalin ruled the Soviet bloc and Trotsky has been in exile for over a decade. Living in a borrowed villa and surrounded by naive American acolytes who idolised him as the supreme theoretician of world revolution, his existence was further complicated by emotional and sexual tension between him, his hosts and his wife and the constant stream of exotic visitors. At the same time, Stalin’s wolves were gathering. 340pp, photos. Contents same as 68258 Trotsky. £20 NOW £2


68619 COLONEL BLOOD: The Man Whole


Stole the Crown Jewels by David Hanrahan Born into a prominent Anglo-Irish family, Colonel Thomas Blood (c.1618-80) was a celebrity in his own lifetime. Blood’s audacity and wit led him to be the only person ever to successfully steal the crown jewels from the Tower of London. This is the first exploration of this fascinating character for over 50 years. What was the underlying motive for the leniency shown by Charles II? Was Blood really a secret agent working for the government? Crown jewel thief, kidnapper, suspected double agent, would-be regicide and religious fanatic, here is a terrific biographical elegy to an intriguing criminal. 212pp, photos. £20 NOW £4


70067 THE WOMAN WHO SHOT MUSSOLINI by Frances Stonor Saunders


Ask anyone if they know the Honourable Violet Gibson and they will probably say they have never heard of her. Yet, of all Mussolini’s would-be assassins, she was the one who came closest to changing the course of history. Her bullet narrowly missed the Italian dictator’s head and instead hit him on the nose. She was pronounced mad and condemned without trial to a whole life sentence, without parole, in a lunatic asylum. This book unravels the mystery. Violet was the daughter of an important Anglo-Irish peer, born to a life of privilege and ease. But she was a thoughtful, serious-minded young woman who had fallen in love with Italy and who watched as Mussolini’s thugs took the country into what she judged to be the moral cesspit of Fascism. She felt compelled to act. 375 compulsively readable paperback pages. Illus. £12.99 NOW £4.75


CRIME FICTION


Within minutes, several eyewitnesses were on the scene. - Adam Boulton


70922 JOHANNES CABAL


THE DETECTIVE by Jonathan L. Howard With the charm of James Bond and the intelligence of Sherlock Holmes, Johannes Cabal is a Zeppelin- hopping detective and necromancer of some little infamy who has been digging up bodies without permission for several years. The indefatigable sociopath is in a remote corner of the world on the run from the local government. He


has stolen a precious and mysterious book that has been under lock and key in a university library. ‘Borrowing’ (ahem) the identity of a minor bureaucrat, Cabal flees on the Princess Hortense, a passenger aeroship that is leaving the country. He looks forward to a quiet trip and a clean escape but is disappointed. On the first night in the air, a fellow passenger throws himself to his death, or that is at least how it appears. But Cabal’s pathologically tidy mind notices some bothersome inconsistencies and he sets to investigate the death. When his detective work results in a vicious attempt on his own life, the gloves come off. He and feisty, beautiful Leonie Barrow reluctantly team up to discover the murderer. Before they are done, there will be more deaths, sword fighting, new-fangled flying machines and massive destruction, not to mention resurrected dead. 288pp, US first edition. $25.95 NOW £5


70865 VOWS OF SILENCE by Susan Hill


Here is one of the ever popular Simon Serrailler crime novels. In the peaceful cathedral town of Lafferton, a gunman is terrorising young women. Is the marksman with a rifle the same person as the killer with a hand gun or do the police have two snipers on their hands? DCS Simon Serrailler is in charge of the case, but he is also struggling to deal with a tragedy at


heart of his own family. Two forthcoming events, a local fair and the high profile cathedral wedding of the Lord Lieutenant’s daughter only add to the pressure. Hill creates a marvellous cast of characters with absorbing contemporary concerns. 328pp in paperback. £6.99 NOW £3


70926 MIDNIGHT FUGUE: A


Dalziel and Pascoe Mystery by Reginald Hill


The Dalziel/Pascoe series is hugely popular and written by the author of ‘The Price of Butcher’s Meat’. It starts with a phone call to Superintendent Dalziel from an old friend asking for help. Gina Wolfe has come to mid Yorkshire in search of her missing husband, believed dead. Her fiancé, Commander Mick


Purdy of the Met, thinks Dalziel should be able to take care of the job. What none of them realise is how events set in motion decades ago will come to a violent head on this otherwise ordinary summer’s day. A Welsh tabloid journalist senses the story he has been chasing


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