Collectables/Antiques

Collectables/Antiques

Collectables/Antiques

Collectables/Antiques

Collectables and Antique books to judge quality and design of collectable items, including books! Miller's antiques price guides to oddities.

 

ENDANGERED ANIMALS
MARTIN JENKINS & TOM FROST    Book Number: 90628
Published price: £15
Bibliophile price: £3.50
Product format: Hardback

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Probably designed for children aged nine and up, all ages will appreciate the striking graphic stamps from printmaker Tom Frost in his beautiful and illuminating journey through the world of endang...
HER MAJESTY A PHOTOGRAPHIC HISTORY 1926-TODAY
CHRISTOPHER WARWICK    Book Number: 88646
Bibliophile price: £48.00
Product format: Hardback

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Born in 1926, married in 1947, crowned as Queen in 1953, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II has for over six decades steadfastly and loyally carried out her duty on behalf of her country. German art p...
NATURE'S TREASUREHOUSE:
JOHN THACKRAY & BOB PRESS    Book Number: 90838
Published price: £12.99
Bibliophile price: £3.00
Product format: Paperback

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As well as extensive holdings of books, journals and manuscripts, the Natural History Museum in London has an unparalleled collection of artwork. The Reeves Drawings are one of many examples of th...
AVRO LANCASTER IN MILITARY SERVICE 1945-1965
MARTIN DERRY & NEIL ROBINSON    Book Number: 91227
Published price: £16.99
Bibliophile price: £8.50
Product format: Paperback

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Entering service in the crucial wartime year of 1942, the Avro Lancaster quickly became the supreme RAF heavy bomber of its day in spite of competition from the Handley Page Halifax, with the RAF f...
AVRO SHACKLETON
MARTIN DERRY & NEIL ROBINSON    Book Number: 91228
Published price: £16.99
Bibliophile price: £7.50
Product format: Paperback

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Written with modelling enthusiasts in mind, this book focuses on extensive visual coverage of the iconic Avro Shackleton, a post-war machine in the RAF coastal command for the defence of friendly m...
AIRCRAFT AND AVIATION STAMPS
HOWARD PILTZ    Book Number: 91571
Published price: £16.99
Bibliophile price: £9.50
Product format: Hardback

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Transport and stamp collecting have been brought together in this special book looking at the way postage stamps have increased our knowledge of transport worldwide. The collecting of stamps or ph...
ENCOUNTERS WITH PEGGY GUGGENHEIM
STEFAN MOSES    Book Number: 91603
Published price: £22.50
Bibliophile price: £4.00
Product format: Hardback

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Sub-titled 'An Intimate Collection of Behind-The-Scenes Photos Featuring the Legendary Art Collector', the renowned photographer took these images between 1967 and 1974, and many have never been se...
200 DIFFERENT COMMONWEALTH STAMPS
RETRO    Book Number: 91646
Bibliophile price: £8.50
Product format: Unknown

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Canada, Malaysia, the Cook Islands, Ceylon, Republic of South Africa, Zimbabwe, Australia, Malta, Pakistan, depicting astronauts to the white rhino, seafaring to architecture, some bearing the head...
FIX BAYONETS!
JOHN NORRIS    Book Number: 91866
Published price: £19.99
Bibliophile price: £6.00
Product format: Hardback

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The bayonet is essentially a knife fixed to the end of a gun, used for charging the enemy when firepower fails. There is something chilling about the order to "fix bayonets", heralding as it does u...
SEAMLESS FROM BIBA: A Life in Design
BARBARA HULANICKI    Book Number: 87725
Published price: £25
Bibliophile price: £8.50
Product format: Hardback

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The glamour of BIBA was global, dictating a sophisticated inner city lifestyle, selling furniture and food, high fashion and cosmetics with nightclub, ritzy restaurant and exotic roof garden replac...
TAXIDERMY
ALEXIS TURNER    Book Number: 92255
Published price: £16.95
Bibliophile price: £7.50
Product format: Paperback

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A lavish Thames & Hudson publication with 338 colour illustrations, many double page, of some of the finest examples of taxidermy, many staged and in curious settings and others curiosities such a ...
ART DECO COLLECTABLES: Fashion Objets from the Jazz Age
RODNEY & DIANA CAPSTICK-DALE    Book Number: 92410
Published price: £34.95
Bibliophile price: £17.00
Product format: Hardback

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Individually crafted luxury items and mass-produced wares in the Art Deco style were designed to create a sleek and anti-traditional elegance that symbolised wealth and sophistication. It is hard ...
FROM PLAYGROUNDS TO PLAYSTATIONS
CARROLL PURSELL    Book Number: 92663
Published price: £21.50
Bibliophile price: £3.50
Product format: Paperback

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Sub-titled 'The Interaction of Technology and Play' here is a romp through the changing landscape of 19th and 20th century American toys, games, hobbies and amusements and the ways in which technol...
CHADBURY: A Town and Industrial Scape In '0' Gauge
ERIC BOTTOMLEY    Book Number: 92868
Published price: £25
Bibliophile price: £8.50
Product format: Hardback

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When you walk into what was a 17ft square double garage you enter another world. There is an 8ft high oil painted backdrop with watercolour landscapes of the Pennine hills, a cotton mill with 166 ...
CLASSIC ROCK T-SHIRTS
LISA KIDNER & SAM KNEE    Book Number: 92912
Published price: £9.99
Bibliophile price: £5.50
Product format: Hardback

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Over 400 vintage T-shirts from the 1970s and 80s featuring such famous rock groups as Kiss with the distinctive zigzag Ss and black and white faces, The Rolling Stones with the iconic ruby red lips...
STARS OF THE CAUCASUS: Silk Embroideries From Azerbaijan
ALBERTO BORALEVI ET AL    Book Number: 92918
Published price: £65
Bibliophile price: £22.50
Product format: Hardback

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Rare 2017 first edition by a selection of world leading experts and scholars, this is the first book on the subject of antique Azerbaijan silk embroideries containing previously unpublished researc...
MASSIMO LISTRI CABINET OF CURIOSITIES
GIULIA CARCIOTTO & A. PAOLUCCI    Book Number: 88323
Published price: £
Bibliophile price: £100.00
Product format: Hardback

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Exquisitely bound in a satin cloth decorated with an Archimboldo design of the head with the face made of flowers and plants and this outsize volume has a pink satin pagemarker and double gate cent...
ULTIMATE GUIDE TO VINYL AND MORE
DAVE THOMPSON    Book Number: 92042
Published price: £25
Bibliophile price: £8.50
Product format: Paperback

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All you need to know about collecting essential music from cylinders, 78s and Edison records on through 45s, LPs, eight tracks, cassettes, bootlegs, CDs, MiniDiscs, MP3s and other formats. Revampe...
HISTORY OF CIGARETTE AND TRADE CARDS
JOHN BROOM    Book Number: 92985
Published price: £16.99
Bibliophile price: £8.00
Product format: Paperback

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Passing hands for many years, cigarette and trade cards are items of social, cultural and advertising history, and many are immensely valuable in monetary terms. The book looks at a wide variety o...
BRITISH MUSEUM BUDDHA
DELIA PEMBERTON    Book Number: 93376
Published price: $15.95
Bibliophile price: £4.50
Product format: Hardback

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The Egyptologist and lecturer for the British Museum and Victoria & Albert Museum Delia Pemberton has created a beautiful book on the treasures, wisdom and spirituality of Buddhism. Through carefu...
LIFE IN MINIATURE: A History of Dolls' Houses
NICOLA LISLE    Book Number: 93400
Published price: £25
Bibliophile price: £12.00
Product format: Hardback

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Popular in Britain since the late 17th century, dolls' houses are tiny slices of social history that give us a fascinating glimpse into domestic life over the last 300 years. In this beautifully i...
MUSEUM BY THE PARK: 14 Queen Anne's Gate
MAX BRYANT    Book Number: 93580
Published price: £25
Bibliophile price: £9.00
Product format: Hardback

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"Knowing the old, you well understand the new." This motto is inscribed on a bust of the 18th century antiquarian Charles Townley, for whom the house at 14 Queen Anne's Gate, formerly 7 Park Street...
MY COLLECTION OF COLLECTIONS
NINA CHAKRABARTI    Book Number: 93695
Published price: £12.99
Bibliophile price: £6.50
Product format: Hardback

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Some collections are put together over a lifetime, while others last a single afternoon. You might be a sucrologist, collecting packets of sugar, or perhaps you would rather collect stamps, matchb...
BRONZE AGE IN EUROPE
JEAN-PIERRE MOHEN ET AL    Book Number: 93720
Published price: £7.95
Bibliophile price: £4.25
Product format: Paperback

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The archaeologist author together with Christiane Eluère takes us back beyond the borders of history. Achilles, Odysseus and other heroes of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey fought with shields and sword...