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FABERGE IN LONDON

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New LONDON: Portrait of A City

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BERTRAND'S BROTHER

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BICARBONATE OF SODA: 100s of Household Uses

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NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW: 125 Years of Literary History

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EXPEDITIONS AND ENDEAVOURS: Images of Nature

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HEROIC ANIMALS: 100 Amazing Creatures Great & Small

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BOX WITH THE SUNFLOWER CLASP

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LION
Book number: 96101 Product format: Hardback Author: MARK ADLINGTON
Bibliophile price £7.00
Published price £30
Emerging from three years of painting and drawing in Africa, this book brings the lion into your living room with its 100 studies of the king of animals resting, running, playing, hunting and looki...
RUM: Shake, Muddle, Stir
Book number: 96106 Product format: Hardback Author: DAN JONES
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Meet the best rum-makers on the planet and the most exciting mixes that can be made from the spirit. How about upgrading your mulled wine to a Hot Spiced Pear and Ginger concoction with Stone's Gin...
DESIGNER BRITISH SILVER: Slipcased Edition
Book number: 95933 Product format: Hardback Author: ANDREW, JOHN, STYLES, DEREK
Bibliophile price £35.00
Published price £75
'From Studios Established 1930-1985' is the sub-title of this thorough exploration of the designer-silversmiths behind the post-war British silver revival. Covering a complete generation of crafts...
THROUGH HER LENS: The Stories Behind the Photography
Book number: 95944 Product format: Hardback Author: EVA SERENY
Bibliophile price £27.00
Published price £40
Eva Sereny was a film director and photographer who had access to all the big names in cinema and cultural giants of the later 20th century - Hepburn, Brando, Burton and Taylor, Fonda, Spielberg an...
HELICOPTER: CONSTRUCT IT DIY MECHANICAL KIT: 120 Pieces
Book number: 96123 Product format: Unknown Author: BMS BRANDS
Bibliophile price £12.00
Beginner level for ages eight to adult and with real tools inside, the 120 pieces which are Meccano-style and compatible are easy to assemble. Illustrations and assembly instructions are included,...
OSCAR WILDE STORIES FOR CHILDREN
Book number: 96178 Product format: Paperback Author: OSCAR WILDE
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'High above the city, on a tall column, stood the statue of the Happy Prince. He was gilded all over with thin leaves of fine gold, for his eyes he had two bright sapphires, and a large red ruby gl...
SECRET LIFE OF MOVIES: Hidden Hints, Motifs, References
Book number: 96182 Product format: Unknown Author: SIMON BREW
Bibliophile price £8.50
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We all like to get swept along by our favourite movies, but it's also a lot of fun to look at them in a different way, spotting the inconsistencies, homage to other films, re-used sets, gaps in the...
TREASURES OF THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY
Book number: 96189 Product format: Hardback Author: EDITED BY WILLIAM P. KELLY
Bibliophile price £21.00
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On the New York Public Library's 125th anniversary in 2021 a public exhibition of its treasures was opened, and this sumptuous volume is the exhibition catalogue, showcasing a shared heritage of 46...
YORKSHIRE SHEPHERDESS
Book number: 96197 Product format: Paperback Author: AMANDA OWEN
Bibliophile price £5.00
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How did the rebellious girl from Huddersfield who always wanted to be a shepherdess achieve her dreams? Packed with amusing anecdotes, unforgettable characters not to mention chickens, pigs, horse...
DAVID BAILEY: EIGHTIES
Book number: 96214 Product format: Hardback Author: DAVID BAILEY
Bibliophile price £100.00
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In the 1980s, fashion wanted to make a statement and found in legendary British fashion photographer David Bailey its perfect chronicler. After Bailey shaped the style of the Swinging Sixties, fas...
ZOOLOGIST'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY
Book number: 95966 Product format: Hardback Author: ARIK KERSHENBAUM
Bibliophile price £8.00
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'What Animals on Earth Reveal About Aliens - and Ourselves', from noted Cambridge zoologist is a wildly fun and scientifically sound exploration of what alien life must be like, using universal law...
EDWARD III'S FAITHFUL KNIGHT
Book number: 96072 Product format: Hardback Author: STEPHEN PORTER
Bibliophile price £8.50
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'Walter Mauny and His Legacy' is the sub-title of this accurate summation of the life and career of a loyal servant of the king who distinguished himself as a soldier, naval commander and diplomat....
JOHN THE BAPTIST: His Life and Afterlife
Book number: 96076 Product format: Hardback Author: JOSEPHINE WILKINSON
Bibliophile price £8.50
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The appearance of John the Baptist in all four Gospels and reference to his baptism in the Acts of the Apostles suggests that John was regarded by early Christian communities as inextricably linked...
RICHARD OF CORNWALL
Book number: 96082 Product format: Hardback Author: DARREN BAKER
Bibliophile price £9.00
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Two kings died in England in 1272 - King Henry III and his younger brother Richard, the Earl of Cornwall. Richard was also King of the Romans, an elective title he had pursued in the hope of becom...
CORONATION: A History of the British Monarchy
Book number: 96249 Product format: Hardback Author: ROY STRONG
Bibliophile price £10.00
Published price £25
Reissued in the run-up to the coronation of King Charles III, Sir Roy Strong's magisterial history is a well-researched delight. The anointing with oil was central from Anglo-Saxon times and was la...
ASTROLOGY: THE LIBRARY OF ESOTERICA
Book number: 96208 Product format: Hardback Author: ANDREA RICHARDS
Bibliophile price £15.00
An entire Galaxy in motion covering the sun, moon, mercury, Venus, Mars Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto, here is the horoscope and the measure of time and entire celestial and terrestria...
ENGLAND'S POST-WAR LISTED BUILDINGS
Book number: 96276 Product format: Hardback Author: ELAIN HARWOOD & JAMES O. DAVIE
Bibliophile price £20.00
Published price £40
Produced in association with Historic England this superb and heavyweight comprehensive guide explores over 500 significant post-war architectural landmarks from private homes to public buildings h...
HEART OF THE SILK ROAD BOARD GAME
Book number: 96257 Product format: Unknown Author: FABIO LOPIANO & IAN O'TOOLE
Bibliophile price £25.00
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Merv is a gateway between the East and the West, a hub of scholarship and trade and the greatest city in the world. Here is a tense, economic eurogame for one to four players, charting the rise a...
GEORGE & ROBERT STEPHENSON: A Passion for Success
Book number: 96337 Product format: Paperback Author: DAVID ROSS
Bibliophile price £8.00
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Every one of us have had an interest in the Stephensons since we became aware of their locomotive creation the 'Rocket'. Told chronologically, the book covers all the major work including the Stoc...
AWAY FROM IT ALL BY UNDERGROUND
Book number: 95914 Product format: Hardback Author: JONATHAN RIDDELL
Bibliophile price £7.00
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Enticing travellers with adventure and escapism on their doorsteps by Tube, Underground smaller posters have not previously been given the attention they deserve, even though the fame of their desi...
COOK SMART AIR FRYER
Book number: 96363 Product format: Hardback Author: Dean Edwards
Bibliophile price £8.50
Published price £20
90 quick and easy energy-saving recipes, this comprehensive collection shows how you can cook just about anything in your air fryer. From breakfast to desserts, focussing on healthier alternatives...
KILLING THATCHER: The IRA, the Manhunt
Book number: 96379 Product format: Paperback Author: Rory Carroll
Bibliophile price £5.50
Published price £10.99
A Book of the Year in the Sunday Times, Daily Mail, Spectator, New Statesman and the Irish Times, the book is the gripping account of how the IRA came astonishingly close to murdering Margaret That...
HEART FULL OF HEADSTONES
Book number: 96180 Product format: Paperback Author: IAN RANKIN
Bibliophile price £6.00
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The multi-million bestselling writer Ian Rankin has created Rebus, one of British crime writing's greatest characters alongside Holmes, Poirot and Morse. John Rebus stands accused - on trial for a...
REMBRANDT THE COMPLETE PAINTINGS
Book number: 95456 Product format: Hardback Author: MARIEKE DE WINKEL
Bibliophile price £75.00
"TASCHEN's outsize, close-up format works superbly for Rembrandt, who built his compositions on intricate details evoked in fabulously free, loose marks, every stroke its own drama, animating portr...

NUTMEG: Graters, Pomanders and Spice Boxes

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ART DECO: Art Periods and Movements

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MUCHA

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BORODINO FIELD 1812 & 1941

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LIONS IN AFRICA: The British and Irish Lions

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STORY OF THE FACE: The Magazine that Changed Culture

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COUNTRYFILE: The Year in the Countryside
Book number: 96049 Product format: Hardback Author: JOHN CRAVEN & FERGUS COLLINS
Bibliophile price £10.00
Published price £25
Star of BBC children's television since the 1970s, John Craven began presenting TV's Countryfile in 1979, tackling rural and farming stories from foot-and-mouth disease to the ban on fox hunting. ...
ADAM DANT'S POLITICAL MAPS
Book number: 96089 Product format: Hardback Author: ADAM DANT
Bibliophile price £8.50
Published price £30
These 47 quirky maps from a brilliant cartoonist's pen cover subjects such as Paris Argot, debt in Canary Wharf, a timeline of the Presidents of the USA, "Guardians of London's Lost Rivers", a play...
WARTSKI: The First One Hundred and Fifty Years
Book number: 95947 Product format: Hardback Author: GEOFFREY MUNN
Bibliophile price £50.00
Published price £65
Known from the Antiques Roadshow, Geoffrey Munn has produced a lavishly illustrated history in his role as managing director of Wartski Ltd, the famous jewellery firm, to celebrate its 150th annive...
ALL WE ARE SAYING
Book number: 96114 Product format: Paperback Author: JOHN LENNON, Y. ONO, D. SHEFF
Bibliophile price £6.00
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'The Last Major Interview with John Lennon & Yoko Ono' conducted by David Sheff, this book was originally published in 1981, just after Lennon's assassination. It is a rich and vivid interview wit...
BARTLETT'S FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS: 19th Edition
Book number: 96117 Product format: Hardback Author: JOHN BARTLETT & G. O'BRIEN
Bibliophile price £25.00
Published price £50
More than 150 years after its initial publication, first compiled by John Bartlett, a bookseller in Cambridge Massachusetts as a commonplace book of only 258 pages, the original 1855 edition mainly...
COLLAPSE: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive
Book number: 96130 Product format: Paperback Author: JARED DIAMOND
Bibliophile price £7.50
Published price £14.99
In his million copy bestseller 'Guns, Germs and Steel', Jared Diamond examined how and why Western civilisations developed the technologies and immunities that allowed them to dominate much of the ...
VOLKSWAGEN BEETLES AND CAMPER VANS
Book number: 96194 Product format: Hardback Author: RUSSELL HAYES
Bibliophile price £10.00
Published price £25
In this beautifully illustrated book, author Russell Hayes looks back at production, design changes, motor sport exploits, custom scenes and after markets and pop-culture connections and illustrate...
X MARKS THE SPOT: An Adventurous History of Archaeology
Book number: 96196 Product format: Paperback Author: MICHAEL SCOTT
Bibliophile price £6.00
Published price £12.99
Who knew that there may be a further 6,000 suits of armour yet to uncover in addition to the Chinese Imperial Terracotta Warriors already unearthed? Or that Kenya's Olduvai Gorge preserves footpri...
FORBIDDEN EROTICA: The Rotenberg Collection
Book number: 96221 Product format: Hardback Author: MARK ROTENBERG
Bibliophile price £20.00
We are taken through the remarkable collection of photographic erotica amassed by Mark Rotenberg of New York, including some 1500 old erotic photos, dating from the 1870s to the 1950s. It is known ...
MARIO DE JANEIRO TESTINO
Book number: 96226 Product format: Hardback Author: MARIO TESTINO
Bibliophile price £15.00
Mario Testino is one of the world's most successful fashion and portrait photographers, whose images are noted for their freshness and intimacy. Peruvian by birth, he has been fascinated by Rio de ...
NEW YORK TIMES CULTURED TRAVELER
Book number: 96236 Product format: Hardback Author: EDITED BY BARBARA IRELAND
Bibliophile price £40.00
100 Trips for Curious Minds from Agadir to Yogyakarta. Some travellers dig deep, with a sharp appetite for knowledge and minds wide open to what's old and what's new. In the latest newly published...
CSB NOTETAKING BIBLE: Stained Glass Edition
Book number: 95952 Product format: Hardback Author: HOLMAN BIBLE PUBLISHERS
Bibliophile price £20.00
Published price £54.99
A breathtakingly beautiful clothbound slipcased gold tooled Bible with tipped-in stained glass illustrations in a gothic window shapes (two on the front and two on the back) depicting Adam and Eve,...
BETRAYAL
Book number: 96069 Product format: Paperback Author: ROBERT MAZUR
Bibliophile price £5.50
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Robert Mazur was a Federal Agent for 27 years. During five years of his law enforcement career he was a long-term undercover agent operating in deep cover within the underworld as a high-level mon...
CELTS: Search for A Civilisation
Book number: 96269 Product format: Paperback Author: ALICE ROBERTS
Bibliophile price £5.50
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'Informed, impeccably researched and written' - Neil Oliver. In 390BC Celtic warriors defeated a Roman army and sacked Rome. It was a bold act of a people who had dominated central Europe for 300...
CLERGYMAN'S DAUGHTER
Book number: 96270 Product format: Paperback Author: GEORGE ORWELL
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Intimidated by her father, the rector of Knype Hill, Dorothy Hare leads a monotonous and unfulfilling life, weighed down by the responsibilities and expectations placed upon her. Her thoughts are ...
LITTLE BOOK FOR CRYSTAL LOVERS
Book number: 96283 Product format: Hardback Author: ASTRID CARVEL
Bibliophile price £6.50
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Simple tips to take your crystal collection to the next level, the book is packed with magical crystals like opal, sapphire, garnet for life, sodalite with its rich blue and white patterns, purple ...
RUSSIAN PAINTING 1800-1945
Book number: 96296 Product format: Paperback Author: DANIEL KIECOL
Bibliophile price £15.00
Some names will be familiar like Bakst, Kandinsky, Malevich, the wonderful Ilya Repin, and Valentin Serov and other artists may not be so familiar in the West but the often haunting and mesmerising...
LUNAR OUTPOST BOARD GAME
Book number: 96259 Product format: Unknown Author: RAVENSBURGER
Bibliophile price £16.00
Published price £78.95
Developed in collaboration with NASA Astronaut Dan Tani, take one small step for man and one giant leap for mankind with this very special family game for science, technology and space fans. Go on...
CAPTIVES: Prisoners of War and Internees 1939-1945
Book number: 96334 Product format: Hardback Author: THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES
Bibliophile price £7.99
Published price £17.99
Millions of people were held captive during the Second World War, including those in the armed services and civilians who were classified as enemy aliens or potentially dangerous foreigners. They ...
GRANITE MEN: A History of the Granite Industries
Book number: 96338 Product format: Paperback Author: JIM FIDDES
Bibliophile price £6.00
Published price £20
Focussing on the Granite Industries of Aberdeen and North East Scotland, the great granite quarries are now silent as virtually all of the 100 granite yards that existed in Aberdeen around the year...
HOW TO READ A BIRD
Book number: 96340 Product format: Hardback Author: WENFEI TONG
Bibliophile price £6.00
Published price £14.99
'A Smart Guide to What Birds Do and Why' is the sub-title of a book which draws on classic examples and the latest research to offer a close-up look at the many ways birds conduct themselves in the...
LETHAL LEGACY: A History of Ireland in 18 Murders
Book number: 96347 Product format: Paperback Author: Fin Dwyer
Bibliophile price £5.00
Published price £10.99
Spanning 200 years here are 18 true murder cases and an historical analysis exploring how violence shaped moder Ireland, from land wars to revolutionary times. An instant Top 5 Irish Times Bestsel...
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH ACTIVITY BOOK
Book number: 96393 Product format: Paperback Author: Nathan Joyce
Bibliophile price £4.00
Published price £7.99
A fun-filled activity book celebrating naturalist Sir David Attenborough through games, trivia and puzzles including animal guessing games and the Attenborough Drinking Game. It is a highly divert...
HOW TO AVOID BOREDOM ON THE LOO
Book number: 96146 Product format: Hardback Author: EDITED BY CLAIRE ORMSBY-POTTER
Bibliophile price £5.00
Published price £11.99
Are you sitting comfortably? The average person spends three years of their life on the loo. Pooing between three times a day and three times a week is considered normal and a third of people flu...
HOW TO BUILD LEGO DINOSAURS
Book number: 96147 Product format: Hardback Author: JESSICA FARRELL
Bibliophile price £8.00
From a fierce Tyrannosaurus to a winged Pteranodon, a woolly mammoth, the terrible crocodile Deinosuchus, or the armoured Ankylosaurus, discover how to build your own awesome LEGO dinosaurs. Here ...
IF WALLS COULD TALK: An Intimate History of the Home
Book number: 96148 Product format: Paperback Author: LUCY WORSLEY
Bibliophile price £6.50
Published price £12.99
From sauce-stirring to breast-feeding, teeth-cleaning to masturbation, getting dressed to getting married, this book will make you see your home with new eyes. Popular TV historian Lucy Worsley ta...
JUSTINIAN: Emperor, Soldier, Saint
Book number: 96157 Product format: Paperback Author: PETER SARRIS
Bibliophile price £7.50
Published price £14.99
A sparkling account of one of the most important rulers in history filled with new ideas and revelations. It is a groundbreaking biography of Justinian giving an insight into both the Emperor and ...
DESTINATIONS OF A LIFETIME
Book number: 94986 Product format: Hardback Author: NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC
Bibliophile price £15.00
Published price $40
Among the destinations many of us have on our bucket list are the monuments of Abu Simbel, the Terracotta Army, the Sistine Chapel, the giant tortoises of the Galapagos or the monumental rock forma...
RALPH GIBSON: NUDE
Book number: 96231 Product format: Hardback Author: ERIC FISCHL
Bibliophile price £50.00
Sexy, sensual and softly surreal setting in gorgeous colour, the nude photography of Ralph Gibson frames the female form while also innovating in the arena of erotic imagery, calling out for tactil...

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KING JAMES VERSION OF THE HOLY BIBLE: Black Leather
Book number: 95956 Product format: Hardback Author: HOLMAN BIBLE PUBLISHERS
Bibliophile price £27.00
Published price £74.99
PSALMS: English Standard Version
Book number: 95963 Product format: Hardback Author: CROSSWAY BIBLES
Bibliophile price £8.50
Published price £22.99
BODY: The Photography Book
Book number: 95929 Product format: Hardback Author: NATHALIE HERSCHDORFER
Bibliophile price £35.00
Published price £48
HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON: CHINA 1948-1949, 1958
Book number: 95938 Product format: Hardback Author: MICHEL FRIZOT & YING-LUNG SU
Bibliophile price £39.00
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RODIN AND THE ART OF ANCIENT GREECE
Book number: 95941 Product format: Hardback Author: FARGE, GARNIER AND JENKINS
Bibliophile price £22.50
Published price $60
VIENNA 1900 COMPLETE
Book number: 95946 Product format: Hardback Author: CHRISTIAN BRANDSTATTER ET AL
Bibliophile price £55.00
Published price £85
IMAGINE JOHN YOKO
Book number: 96096 Product format: Hardback Author: JOHN LENNON & YOKO ONO
Bibliophile price £17.50
Published price £35