​​​​​​​Behold The Valley of the Dolls

by David Mansour 

​Behold the Valley of the Dolls by David Mansour

Coming Soon! 

"I want a doll! I want a doll!"

~ Neely O'Hara

All the Barbies you can handle—and beyond!  

 Hundreds of dolls are here to behold. As readers gaze upon each they might question, who’s beholding who?

Behold the Valley of the Dolls is a comprehensive visual history of Barbie’s first forty years. Flowing chronologically through four eras, beginning with the Ponytail Barbie in 1960 and ending with dolls at the Y2K, the book revolves around hundreds of dolls captured in stunning original portraits. As you turn the pages and move forward through time, the evolution of Barbie, fashion and fads is vividly presented—essentially late 20th Century pop culture itself. 
 
A playful narrative, full of fun facts and informative tidbits, accompanies the photographs throughout because why not look at a pretty face (or in Ken’s case, a handsome face) and learn something too.

   “You’ve got to climb to the top of Mt. Everest to reach the Valley of the Dolls” began Jacqueline Susann’s Valley of the Dolls, the top-selling book of 1966. 

     Unlike Susann’s wildly popular novel, you won’t find the rise and fall of Hollywood starlets here—amidst pill-popping and booze-swigging, catfights and scandal. You will find however, dolls. 650 Barbie and Ken dolls fabulously posed for the camera by an adoring collector who himself has gone totally beyond the Valley of the Dolls.  

“I’m not nutty, I am just hooked on dolls!”
~ Patty Duke as Neely O’Hara in Valley of the Dolls

    Before you make the climb to behold the Valley of the Dolls let’s start at the beginning…