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Gorgeous, high-end art tomes and collectable rare books at a fraction of the original price, selected for quality and scholarship and sheer beauty. Some are "coffee table" art books too or colouring books for adults, how to create art for yourself and learn from the experts or the Masters.
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Well, I am a Sunday painter. It’s just that I paint every other day of the week as well. - L.S. Lowry
| ROSAMOND BERNIER Book Number: 74573 |
Published price: $30
Bibliophile price: £3.00
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Bernier's father chaired the directors of the Philadelphia Orchestra, and when she herself was a young harp student she met all the great musicians of her day, from Otto Klemperer, who threw food a...
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| DAVID HOCKNEY Book Number: 81103 |
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Taschen's brand new SUMO-sized David Hockney monograph is as spectacular in format as it is in scope. In it, the artist takes stock of more than 60 years of work, from his teenage days at the Brad...
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| PRESENTED BY SELINA SCOTT Book Number: 81648 |
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In this programme, Selina Scott uncovers the treasures of Boughton House, the home of the Duke of Buccleuch and Queensbury. His ancestors were collectors on a grand scale and managed to fill three...
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| MICHELLE GALINDO Book Number: 83549 |
Published price: £29.95
Bibliophile price: £3.25
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Successful kids' design unites quality, sustainability and safety with ingenuity, style and pleasure and here is a selection of the very best from novelties to established classics. Innovative and...
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| BERENICE GEOFFROY-SCHNEITER Book Number: 84143 |
Published price: £18.95
Bibliophile price: £3.50
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A troupe of African, American, Asian or Oceanic masks and ancestor effigies stare out at us, often sporting threatening snarls, bristling beards, lolling tongues and pointed canines. Are tribal so...
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| DELIA PEMBERTON Book Number: 84336 |
Published price: $15.95
Bibliophile price: £2.50
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Buddhism views the world we perceive as an illusion. In accordance with the law of cause and effect, or karma (literally 'action') the soul is propelled into an endless series of reincarnations. ...
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| FOREWORD BY ALAN LEE Book Number: 84830 |
Published price: £38
Bibliophile price: £12.00
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Beautifully summarised by our friend Alan Lee in his foreword, 'Today we have more means of accessing images of wildlife. We can view them in real time or through high-definition photography but se...
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| LAWRENCE SMITH Book Number: 84350 |
Published price: $55
Bibliophile price: £8.00
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Following World War Two, much of urban Japan lay in ruins, the land occupied by foreign powers for the first time in the country's history. To many it seemed everything was lost, yet it had an abi...
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| HANCHAO LU Book Number: 85018 |
Published price: £32
Bibliophile price: £4.00
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During the Chinese Revolution of 1911, photographs of the upheaval were rare, but an American photographer, Francis Stafford (1884-1938), was working for Commercial Press in Shanghai, and consequen...
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| JOSEPH P. ECKHART Book Number: 85047 |
Published price: $39.95
Bibliophile price: £6.00
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William Brooke Thomas Trego was born on 15 September 1858, the fifth of six children born to prolific and much-sought-after artist Jonathan Trego and his wife Emily. At the age of 18 months however...
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| STEVEN HELLER & LOUISE FILI Book Number: 85402 |
Published price: £22.50
Bibliophile price: £8.50
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Heavyweight Thames & Hudson publication made up entirely of advertising material produced on glossy paper and dripping with colour. Every single page has a typeface and a design from decorative po...
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| GERED MANKOWITZ Book Number: 85280 |
Published price: £20
Bibliophile price: £8.00
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Reputations were made quickly in the frenetic pop world of the sixties, and the 18-year-old Gered Mankowitz became an iconic photographer when he spent two years documenting the Rolling Stones in 1...
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| HELENE ALEXANDER & R. HARRIS Book Number: 85785 |
Published price: £20
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From the luxurious medieval languor of Lady Ashburton, photographed as Tennyson's Enid and clothed 'in apparel like the day' for the Devonshire House Ball of 1897, to the understated elegance of Mi...
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| AMY LICENCE Book Number: 85871 |
Published price: £18.99
Bibliophile price: £3.50
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Ida Nettleship, Sophie Brzeska and Fernande Olivier were three early 20th century women who lived in the shadow of their artist partners, the painter Augustus John, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska and Pablo ...
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| MICHAEL FOREMAN Book Number: 85669 |
Published price: £17.99
Bibliophile price: £7.00
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The popular and very collectable book illustrator Michael Foreman is very well travelled and of course has taken his paper, pen and ink and watercolours with him everywhere since he was at art scho...
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| JAN TOMS Book Number: 85799 |
Published price: £6.99
Bibliophile price: £3.75
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Guy the Gorilla from Regent's Park Zoo, Jacob the Dray horse near Tower Bridge, the Boy and the Tiger at Tobacco Docks in Wapping, the Cat Monument at Shugborough, and a weathered gravestone for Fr...
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| SOREN DAHLGAARD Book Number: 85813 |
Published price: £24.99
Bibliophile price: £3.50
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Imagine enough dough kneaded (!) for three or four loaves and while all gooey, dropping it on top of the head so that it stretches all the way down the face and over the chin of your portrait model...
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| RUTH AND VINCENT MEGAW Book Number: 85815 |
Published price: £5.99
Bibliophile price: £4.00
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This widely praised Shire publication, now extensively revised and enlarged, examines the predominantly warrior and aristocratic art of the Iron Age inhabitants of Britain and Ireland from the four...
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| EDITED BY ANDREW LAMBERT Book Number: 85832 |
Published price: £30
Bibliophile price: £10.00
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A visually stunning art history featuring 360 of the most celebrated ships from history and fiction in one stylishly produced volume. Each has a dramatic story immortalised in an evocative artwork...
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| MARK HARRISON & LISA TUTTLE Book Number: 85997 |
Published price: £16.95
Bibliophile price: £5.00
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The woman who haunts artist Mark Harrison's dreams is a symbol of fertility and a goddess of nature surrounded by flowers, vines and leafy plants, her hair growing in tendrils adorned with fruit, a...
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| LISA DI TOMMASO Book Number: 85546 |
Published price: £12.99
Bibliophile price: £5.00
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On 26th January 1788 nearly 1,500 people on 11 sailing ships came ashore at Port Jackson after a gruelling eight month journey from England. This collection of vessels later became known as the Fi...
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"I've always been fascinated by sex, the diversity of practices, the will and perseverance of people to realize their fantasies," says Paris photographer Laurent Benaïm. "These moments of pleasure ...
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| JULIE WEIR Book Number: 86215 |
Published price: £7.99
Bibliophile price: £3.50
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'Kevin Crossley's Krike Dragon recalls aspects of John Tenniel's Jabberwock illustrations for 'Through the Looking Glass'. Using Photoshop he incorporated photographs of rust, lichen, scuffed meta...
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| JULIE APPEL & AMY GUGLIELMO Book Number: 86216 |
Published price: $12.95
Bibliophile price: £2.00
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A totally touchy feely book, the like of which we have never before seen on Bibliophile. Irresistible! With a peep-hole front cover, the classic Holbein Portrait of Henry VIII aged 49, (1540) is ...
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| ANNIE COHEN-SOLAL ET AL Book Number: 86251 |
Published price: £28
Bibliophile price: £6.00
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The former Editor of The New Yorker is one of the award-winning art and architecture critics who bring alive the influential critics and patrons, legendary galleries and artists themselves, from Po...
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| PATRICIA HICKSON Book Number: 86177 |
Published price: £30
Bibliophile price: £8.00
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The young photographer Robert Mapplethorpe (1946-1989) idolised Andy Warhol (1928-1987), 18 years his senior. Both were obsessed with fluid gender roles and both revealed themselves in trans-gender...
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| JONATHAN CLAY Book Number: 86376 |
Published price: £25
Bibliophile price: £11.00
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In the field of railway art and heritage railways, John Clay's paintings are highly prized and appreciated. As a youngster, the family took the Model Railway News, and a feature of this publicatio...
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| PATRICK TAYLOR Book Number: 86392 |
Published price: £7.95
Bibliophile price: £2.00
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Having studied architecture, the author went to York University to study for an MA in Conservation Studies in 1992 and encountered the phenomenon of local distinctiveness of toll houses. He looks ...
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| TIM JENKINSON & PATRICK TAYLOR Book Number: 86393 |
Published price: £9.95
Bibliophile price: £3.00
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A companion to code 86392 Toll Houses of Cambridgeshire, this is the very first detailed study of Staffordshire's toll-houses, small buildings on the highway edge, lived in by the pike-men who coll...
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| EDNA RUSSMANN, N. STRUDWICK Book Number: 86421 |
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Immerse yourself in the artefacts of Ancient Egypt as this companion gives you a behind the curtain look at one of the world's foremost collections of Egyptian antiquities - Egyptian treasures from...
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