www.bibliophilebooks.com COLLECTABLES


He called me a fatalist, but I’d never collected a postage stamp in my life.


- Yogi Berra


75027 WATCH AND CLOCK MAKERS’ HANDBOOK, DICTIONARY AND GUIDE by F. J. Britten


The most preeminent horologist of his time, F. J. Britten was author of the classic guide ‘Old Clocks and Watches and Their Makers’ and he passed away in 1913. Widely regarded as one of the most famous and useful encyclopedias on watch


and clock making, this 11th edition of the regularly updated guide was originally published in 1907. This is the final edition that Britten completed before his death. It is full of classic information on tools, repair, terms and descriptions and is considered the definitive source of information on watch and clock making techniques and technology of the early 20th century and before. His alphabetised encyclopaedic dictionary format makes it a pleasure to read when looking up specific terms and concepts. Very well illustrated with woodcuts and other illus and charts. Facsimile reprint, 499pp in paperback. £12.99 NOW £6.50


74193 MASTERS: Earthenware by Matthias Ostermann


Discover the outstanding artistry of 38 noted international ceramicists who work in earthenware to create vibrant functional, sculptural and figurative pieces. Each artist’s best achievements are presented on eight consecutive pages of spectacular colour photos plus their own commentary about their inspirations and processes. In the style of Clarice Cliff are teapots decorated with cherries and yellow ruffles by Wynne Wilbur. Hand built, coil built, brush glazed, s graffito, the Harlequin tureen, cake stand and fruit bowl by Gail Kendall demonstrates sturdy forms rooted in Islamic and European traditions. 318pp, large softback. £17.99 NOW £5


74363 CLARICE CLIFF FOR COLLECTORS by Greg Slater


Here, written by a collector of unparalleled experience and featuring reproductions of pattern book illustrations and the original sales material from the Wilkinson and Newport potteries, is a concise, practical and accessible guide. This volume is structured in three sections. The first offers a brief biography, as well as a guide to pattern names, numbers, back stamps and shape numbers. The second gives an overview of the great diversity of objects produced. The third is devoted to collecting, storing, displaying and, most importantly, managing a collection for, as it grows in size and value, curating, recording, insurance and restoration are issues for all collectors. With a rarity and price guide. 240 softback pages 24.5cm x 17cm, 500 colour illus. £18.95 NOW £7.50


71455 GUIDE TO FIRST EDITION PRICES: Eight Edition by R. B. Russell


Worth its weight in gold at 786 large pages, this is the completely revised and updated eight edition (2010). The volume provides a guide to the value of over 50,000 sought-after titles. Includes Jane Austen to Oscar Wilde, Eric Ambler to Minette Walters, illustrators from Aubrey Beardsley to Florence Upton and poets from Richard Alvington to Walt Whitman. Authors and artists are represented in British and American first editions, limited editions and important, collectable reprints. As featured on Radio Four’s ‘Front Row’. Lovely clear layout and great value. £19.95 NOW £7


72405 CRACKING ANTIQUES


by Kathryn Rayward and Mark Hill An antique dining table can show off a pretty Victorian dinner service or a 1960s Le Creuset casserole and Denby stoneware. Your kitchen can house precious collections of blue and white ceramics or old-fashioned utensils. The hall or corridor is often overlooked but is crucial in setting the style of a home with paintings or displays of glass. There are useful sections on cleaning and caring for textiles, repairing a scratch on wood and renovating furniture. 224 pages, colour illus. £18.99 NOW £3.50


72415 THE GOLDEN AGE OF DC COMICS 1935-1956


by Paul Levitz Superman’s story and


those of Batman, Wonder Woman and hundreds of other DC Comics characters are all told in The Golden Age of DC Comics. The single most comprehensive book on the subject, this volume traces the company’s first decades, from its pulp origins up


to the comic book burnings of the McCarthy ’50s in more than 400 pages bursting with comics, art, comics, photographs, and more comics. Also included is an exclusive interview with legendary artist Joe Kubert! With more than 1,000 new images, thousands of covers and interiors, original illustrations, photographs, film stills, and collectibles have been reproduced to bring the story lines, the characters, and their creators to vibrant life. 9.4 x 12.8", 416 pages. ONLY £35


73608 COLLECTING TEDDY BEARS by Sally Taylor


Explores famous bears in fiction, such as The Three Bears, Winnie-the-Pooh, Paddington, Pudsey, Rupert and Theodore, and gives some very sound advice on how to start building up a collection of these uniquely loveable little creatures. 128 pages 31cm x 23cm in appealing colour. £7.99 NOW £3


73868 PASSION FOR MEISSEN


by Ulrich Pietsch


Early Meissen porcelain is much esteemed among collectors. Established on 6th June 1710, Meissen, with all its technical and artistic achievements and innovations, set trends in both design and decorative painting on porcelain. The publication of the


Said and Roswitha Marouf Collection focuses the viewer’s eye on the magnificent artwork on the Meissen porcelain manufactory. There are outstanding works by Johann Gregorious Höroldt and his workshop and also the small sculptural work of Johann Joachim Kaendler. 600 reproductions including numerous large close ups of 200 artworks showing Chinese figures in bold colours decorating plates, coffee and teapots, cups and saucers, chocolate cups, ladles, spoons and bowels, tureens and of course figures, some mounted on splendiferous gilded candelabras. 352 pages, 24.7 x 32.7cm. Colour.


£55 NOW £25 72447 DIECAST TOY CARS OF THE 1950s


AND 1960s by Andrew Ralston Particularly valuable if still in their original boxes, enjoy such examples as the rare Mercury Ferarri gift set priced £500+ or the red Alfa Romeo Exotic Coupé Cangura price guide £80, the Lone Star Roadmasters 1472 Cadillac from 1960, price £70 or the well known Dinky Toys Morestone Double Decker Red London Bus price £75. View 300 colour photographs of rare examples from Dinky, Matchbox, Corgi and Spot-On, Solido and CIJ, Märklin and Gama, Tekno and Mercury, Diapet and Cherryca Phenix. 128 large pages in illus softback. £19.99 NOW £6.50


72985 GEMSTONES by Cally Hall, Harry Taylor and Dr Roger Harding


There are over 3,000 different minerals, but only about 50 are commonly used as gemstones. The five major stones are diamond, star sapphire, river pearl, ruby and emerald but over 130 different gorgeous varieties from around the world are described in this book and depicted in crystal-clear photos. Precise annotation makes identification sure and simple. 160 softback pages, 800 photos in sparkling colour, table of properties, map showing world distribution, useful addresses. £10.99 NOW £5


73234 MILLER’S SOFT TOYS: A Collector’s


Guide by Frankie Leibe 150 photos in colour of collectable pieces. All of the manufacturer’s marks are noted together with fact files and tips on how to collect Steiff and post-World War Two toys. Favourites of ours are the elephants by Schuco and Farnell, the ride on camel and elephant by Steiff, the Pig Family from the 1930s on page 45. Care and restoration, where to see and buy. 64 page paperback. $9.99 NOW £2.25


73232 MATCHSAFES by Deborah Sampson Shinn


The need for a dry container led to the creation of matchsafes, also known as match boxes and match receivers (vesta cases in Britain), protective and decorative containers for carrying about one’s person. These soon developed into beautifully ornamented forms often worked into natural forms such as animals and plants, inlaid with jewels and incorporating precious metals. 100 colour photos of the best examples of the 4,000+ matchsafes. 112pp softback, colour. £15.95 NOW £3.50


CRIME


I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him.


- Mark Twain


74828 CLICK, CLICK by Joyce,


June and Paula Kavanagh


THE GRIM BESTSELLER


A true story of abuse of three sisters and a shattered Irish childhood, this is a number one bestseller, first time discounted. June, Joyce and Paula were born to a family of ten in Dublin in the 1960s. Their father abused all three of them in the family home throughout their childhood. In 1989 the sisters made


the courageous decision to bring charges against their father, and in 1990 he was convicted and imprisoned. Here is the terrible story of their abuse, loss of childhood in a dysfunctional and tortuous environment but more importantly it is the story of three women refusing such abuse to define them. 270pp in paperback. £6.99 NOW £3.50


74947 CROSSING HITLER The Man Who Put the Nazis on the Witness Stand by Benjamin Carter Hett In 1931, Hitler was trying to distance himself from Nazi paramilitary activities to prove to the German middle class that he was committed to legality. Called as a witness in a trial where four Nazi stormtroopers stood accused of criminal assault and attempted


murder, he was grilled by lawyer Hans Litten about his relationship to the Nazi thugs. To Hitler’s fury, Litten revealed the full extent of the Führer’s complicity in his troopers’ violent methods, which left Hitler sputtering with rage. Litten had espoused both Judaism and radical left-wing politics, and he deliberately took on cases that brought him into direct conflict with Nazi ambition. But Hitler never forgot. After five years of torture and hard labour, the lawyer ended his life in a concentration camp. His tragic, redemptive life left a legacy that is both celebrated and debated to this day. A compelling and moving 349 pages with b/w archive photos. $27.95 NOW £7


72506 DIAL M FOR MURDOCH: News


Corporation and the Corruption of Britain by Tom Watson and Martin Hickman Murdoch’s newspapers had for years been hacking phones and casually destroying people’s lives. This exposé gives the first comprehensive account of the extraordinary lengths to which the News Corporation went to ‘put the problem in a box’, how its efforts to maintain and extend its power were aided by its political and police friends, and how it was finally exposed. 360 pages, colour and b/w photos. £20 NOW £4.50


72534 MOSSAD


by Michael Bar-Zohar and Nissim Mishal The Israeli intelligence agency Mossad is known the world over for the courage, daring and often self-sacrifice of its agents. It also has critics, but the authors of this gripping book take the view that without Mossad, the aftermath of the Arab Spring would be even worse than it is. A key name in Mossad history is former commando Meir Dagan, author of a daring anti-terrorist infiltration into Gaza in 1971 and subsequently creator of “Rimon”, the first undercover Israeli commando unit. By 2011 about half of Iran’s centrifuges were immobilised and George Bush himself wrote Meir a personal letter. The book covers famous incidents such as the hunting and capture of Adolf Eichmann, led by Isser Harel. 388pp. £20 NOW £7


72504 ASYLUM: The Renegades Who Hijacked the


World’s Oil Market by Leah McGrath Goodman From treacherous boardroom schemes to strippers, from repeated terrorist attacks to FBI stings and from grand alliances to the obscene fortunes that brought the global economy to the brink of collapse. For the first time, this outspoken book unmasks the oil market’s self-


described ‘inmates’ in all their dysfunctional glory. Here are the happily married father from Long Island, whose lust for money and power was exceeded only by his taste for cruel pranks. 398 pages, photos. £17.99 NOW £2.50


72597 BRIDGE OF SPIES: A True Story of the Cold War by Giles Whittell


Here is the true story of three extraordinary characters: Rudolf Abel - a British-born KGB agent jailed by the FBI, Gary Powers - the American U-2 pilot shot down whilst flying a reconnaissance mission over the closed cities of central Russia, and Frederic Pryor - a young American graduate student mistakenly arrested as a spy by the Stasi, East Germany’s secret police. Here is the tragicomedy of errors that eventually induced Khrushchev to deploy missiles to Cuba. The three men were exchanged. 274 pages, photos. $24.99 NOW £3


72666 SECRET HISTORY OF MI6 1909-1949 by Keith Jeffery


This is a warts-and-all view of MI6. Here are the challenges it faced trying to counter the spread of Communism and the growing threats from Germany, Italy and Japan - all this with inadequate resources. The war also brought the agency many of its greatest triumphs, among them the pioneering of cryptography on an industrial scale - such as the breaking of the Enigma codes - and the devising of some of the methods and equipment that would inspire Ian Fleming’s novels. By scouting sites for the D-Day invasion and contributing to stunning deception operations before the Allies landed, MI6 also uncovered crucial info on Germany’s V rockets. 810 pages, archive photos. $39.95 NOW £5.50


72795 WORLD THAT NEVER WAS by Alex Butterworth


The 19th century was an era that saw the birth of a new phenomenon - international terrorism. Bombings and assassinations shook the great cities of Europe and America, threatening the social order. Key players include Emma Goldman - leading figure of the anarchist movement, and William Morris - author, poet, artist and prominent socialist. 502 paperback pages. Illus. £9.99 NOW £2.50


73279 FACTS ARE SUBVERSIVE: Political


Writing from a Decade Without a Name by Timothy Garton Ash


Consider the statement made by the head of Britain’s secret intelligence service, known only by his traditional moniker ‘C’. It is a horrifying thought that, if the ‘facts’ about Saddam Hussein’s supposed weapons of mass destruction had been known instead of ‘fixed’, the British Parliament might not have voted to go to war in Iraq. A digital photo can be falsified at the tap of a keyboard. 441 paperback pages, map. £9.99 NOW £2


72311 VILLAINS’ PARADISE: A History of


Britain’s Underworld by Donald Thomas Explores the shadowy ganglands where armed robbery, prostitution, drugs and protection flourished. It charts the paths of crooks and thugs like Johnny the Gent, the Ferret, the Hat and Big Albert, who stole, collected, peddled, pimped and killed, and the cops that they ‘bent’. Between 1944 and 1945, the incidence of armed robbery and violent crime increased by 40 per cent. By 1970, the UK crime rate had tripled. Why? 506 paperback pages, illus. $16.95 NOW £3


Crime 13


73902 JUMPED, FELL, OR PUSHED?


by Steven Koehler Today thanks to the constantly advancing field of forensic science, many of the world’s most dangerous, psychotic and cunning killers are now almost inevitably bought to justice. Here we are put right in the middle of a crime-scene investigation and peer over the


shoulders of homicide detectives, coroners, DNA examiners and other criminal specialists. The 50 case studies include Johann Curley, the rat-poison murderer, Dr Arthur Waite the death dealing doctor, Alexander Litvinenko slowly dying in a London hospital of polonium poisoning plus botched cases, the Oklahoma bomb explosion and a blundered train robbery in the USA. 176 large pages, colour photos. ONLY £6


73280 FRENZY by Neil Root


Subtitled ‘Heath, Haigh and Christie, the First Great Tabloid Murderers’. The loathsome trio were Neville Heath, a “charming” sadist who killed two women, John Haigh, who killed between six and nine people and disposed of their bodies in an acid bath, and the necrophile John Christie, who killed between six and eight women, including his wife Ethel and one Beryl Evans and her 14 month old daughter Geraldine, a despicable crime for which Beryl’s husband Timothy was hanged in 1950 in one of the worse miscarriages of justice ever seen in this country. Court transcripts. 314pp paperback. £12.99 NOW £4


73612 DICTIONARY OF ESPIONAGE:


Spyspeak into English by Joseph C. Goulden More than just an alphabetical series of definitions, this volume offers a fascinating insight into the lingo and the operations of the CIA, the FBI, M15, MI6, Mossad, the KGB and many other top-secret organisations. Loaded with anecdotal incidents that provide entertainment as well as information, it offers page-turning excitement from the clandestine world of spies and spying. Enjoy a lively tour through the plain talk, double talk and euphemisms of Spyspeak as really rendered by its practitioners. 256 paperback pages, $14.95 NOW £5


73622 INTO THE HEART OF THE MAFIA: A Journey Through the Italian South by David Lane


Tragically, the hold of the Mafia on southern Italy - from Naples, through Calabria, to Sicily, the cradle of Cosa Nostra - is as strong as ever. His book describes in painful detail the unceasing Mafia pressure endured by priests and politicians, trade unionists, businessmen and ordinary citizens, and the risks taken by police, magistrates and members of civil society whose commitment to their cause has weakened, but has not destroyed, the Mafia’s influence. 261 pages with map. $24.99 NOW £5.50


73651 INVENTION OF MURDER: How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and


Created Modern Crime by Judith Flanders Over the course of the 19th century, murder became ubiquitous - transformed into novels, broadsides, ballads, theatre, melodrama, opera and even puppet shows and performing dog acts. The author explores some of the most gripping and gruesome cases, both famous and obscure. Here are Greenacre, who transported his dismembered fiancée around London by omnibus, Burke and Hare, Eleanor Pearcey, who murdered her lover’s wife and child and many more. 556 pages, colour and b/w.


£20 NOW £5


74065 TITANIC THOMPSON by Kevin Cook


The colourful biography of the card-sharking, gun- slinging, fast-living American legend. Travelling only with his golf clubs, a .45 revolver and a suitcase full of cash, the legendary Titanic was married five times to five different women, all teenagers on their wedding day. He killed five men, though he would say ‘They’d all agree that they had it coming to them’. He lost and won millions in a time when being a millionaire still really meant something. Filled with famous faces like Harry Houdini, Al Capone, Lee Trevino, Arnold Rothstein and Jean Harlow. 246pp, illus paperback. £8.99 NOW £3.50


74134 MURDER AT WROTHAM HILL by Diana Souhami


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A subversive murder story and a stunning evocation of 40s Britain. Two strikingly different people eke out lives on the margins of a society shattered by six long years of war. Dagmar Petrzywalski is a gentle, eccentric spinster who saves every penny and lives by herself in a hut. Harold Hagger is a small-time crook, a man of shabby impulses and bad lies. The author takes their chance meeting on a lonely autumn morning as the starting point for a haunting and tragic account of a tawdry murder that shines a light on post-war austerity England. 325pp in paperback with map and photos. £8.99 NOW £4.50


74287 DARK MARKET: Cyberthieves, Cybercops and


You by Misha Glenny The three fundamental 21st century threats are cybercrime, cyber warfare and cyber industrial espionage. Glenny illustrates the impossible task which the world’s law enforcement agencies have been set in his investigation of the rise and fall (though for how long?) of the criminal website DarkMarket (from c.2002-2009). The top


hackers like JiLsi, Matrix and Lord Cyric, the detectives and Internet security experts and the victims. The first thing you will do is change all your passwords! 296pp paperback.


£13.99 NOW £4.50


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