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| MICHAEL LEAPMAN Book Number: 83322 |
Published price: £25
Bibliophile price: £12.00
Product format: Hardback
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Owing its origin to the generosity and far-sightedness of a handful of 18th century scholars and booklovers, the British Library's extensive collection incorporates not only books and manuscripts, ...
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| EDWARD ARDIZZONE Book Number: 83223 |
Published price: £12.99
Bibliophile price: £1.90
Product format: Hardback
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Stephen Fry reads the book aloud if you scan the QR code at the end for the free audio download. Tim arrives home after a long voyage to find his parents have vanished. He is determined to search...
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| JACK FORSTER Book Number: 83850 |
Published price: £50
Bibliophile price: £18.00
Product format: Hardback
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A showcase for the Cartier fine watchmaking collection, this gorgeous book features iconic pieces in which there is a perfect fusion of mechanics and design. The Astroregulateur leads the field, wi...
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| BERENICE GEOFFROY-SCHNEITER Book Number: 84143 |
Published price: £18.95
Bibliophile price: £3.50
Product format: Paperback
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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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| MICHAEL SALMON Book Number: 84489 |
Published price: £30
Bibliophile price: £7.00
Product format: Hardback
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Tragically, changes in land management and the environment have contributed to the seemingly irreversible decline of butterfly species in Britain. It is probable that we shall never again see many...
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| MARK MCDONALD Book Number: 84344 |
Published price: £25
Bibliophile price: £4.00
Product format: Paperback
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A big beautiful British Library and British Museum UK first edition 2005 paperback with 20 colour and 178 black and white woodcut illustrations, this beautiful book catalogues 110 of the most impor...
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| SIMON DE PURY & W. STADIEM Book Number: 84437 |
Published price: $25.99
Bibliophile price: £3.25
Product format: Hardback
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Flamboyant television auctioneer Simon de Pury, nicknamed "the man with the golden gavel", tells his own diamond-encrusted story. Realising he will never make a creative artist himself, he finds em...
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| BRIGETTE BARRAGER Book Number: 85208 |
Published price: £12.99
Bibliophile price: £4.75
Product format: Unknown
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Measuring 10½" x 7" and with five slots all the way across, the pink cleverly designed 'stage' allows you to create, with the big card backdrops, the castle and the chandeliered ballroom, a perfect...
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| CHARLOTTE AND PETER FIELL Book Number: 85285 |
Published price: £30
Bibliophile price: £5.00
Product format: Hardback
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Italian design is famous throughout the world; stylish, elegant and innovative pioneering Rationalism, to Post-Modernism and Late-Modern design. From cars to typewriters, glass vases to fibreglass ...
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| RICK SAPP Book Number: 75751 |
Bibliophile price:
£2.75
Product format: Hardback
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The Charter Arms Pink Lady, a .38 Smith & Wesson Special +P could look alluring, beautiful even if you did not know that it was a deadly weapon. The Lady Smith on page 65 looks far more mechanical...
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| ALAN BAMBERGER Book Number: 85605 |
Published price: £15.99
Bibliophile price: £4.50
Product format: Paperback
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You can buy art at auction, at a gallery or online: but how do you tell whether you're paying a fair price? If the painting is an old one, how do you know whether it's a fake? Does it even matter?...
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| HILLWOOD ESTATE MUSEUM Book Number: 85738 |
Published price: £29.95
Bibliophile price: £10.00
Product format: Hardback
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Marjorie Merriweather Post (1887-1973) lived through the Roaring Twenties and the 1960s and embodied the extreme transformations and evolving status of women, reflected in the fashions of the time....
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| HELENE ALEXANDER Book Number: 85784 |
Published price: £20
Bibliophile price: £8.50
Product format: Hardback
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The celebrated fan maker Félix Alexandre (b.1823) was active in an age when the art of fan-making reached a glorious apogee. Brought together for the first time, here is an array of exquisite fans...
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| HELENE ALEXANDER & R. HARRIS Book Number: 85785 |
Published price: £20
Bibliophile price: £8.00
Product format: Hardback
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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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| WILLIAM ADDISON DWIGGINS Book Number: 85846 |
Published price: £15.99
Bibliophile price: £7.00
Product format: Hardback
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This beautifully produced reissue of Abbe's 1979 limited edition of Dwiggins's pioneering work in stencil will delight everyone who appreciates intricate craftsmanship. Entitled "a demonstration" o...
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| CLARA SCHMIDT Book Number: 85944 |
Bibliophile price:
£4.00
Product format: Paperback
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Mostly in black and white but with some fine colour examples are the most beautiful Arabesques, lattice patterns, swastikas, stylised bamboos, friezes, Thomas W. Cutler's 'A Grammar of Japanese Orn...
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| CLARA SCHMIDT Book Number: 85947 |
Bibliophile price:
£4.00
Product format: Paperback
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Ornate scrollwork, engraved copper, French gold work, candlesticks in bronze, decorated reliquaries, beautiful enamelled earthenware tiles, painted ceilings, keystones, 14th and 15th century milita...
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| PAT MURRAY Book Number: 85949 |
Published price: £24.95
Bibliophile price: £4.50
Product format: Paperback
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THE standard reference to educate collectors and dealers with accurate and detailed listings of essential information to build a rewarding collection of Wade Heath Royal Victoria Pottery (formerly ...
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| SIMON STEPHENS Book Number: 85831 |
Published price: £25
Bibliophile price: £10.00
Product format: Paperback
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Curator of Ship Model and Boat Collections at the National Maritime Museum at Greenwich here in London, Simon Stephens begins this superb collection with a British turret-decked steamer in close-up...
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| JANE URQUHART Book Number: 85888 |
Published price: $32.99
Bibliophile price: £6.50
Product format: Hardback
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A literary cherry tree, a famous skull, an Innu tea doll, a Sikh RCMP turban, a Cree basket, a Massey-Harris tractor, a canoe, ferry. The power of objects to speak of cultures and civilisations ha...
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| GUITARIST MAGAZINE Book Number: 86040 |
Published price: £25
Bibliophile price: £9.00
Product format: Hardback
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At Bibliophile we have handled a great many musical instrument books down the years, so it takes a lot to impress us. Having now gazed in awe at this breathtaking tome we can categorically state is...
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| EDIT BY GIAN CARLO CALZA Book Number: 86122 |
Published price: £38
Bibliophile price: £19.00
Product format: Hardback
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Produced in association with the Fondazione Art Museum of Rome for an exhibition a few years ago, this is a lavishly produced volume on the origins and originality of Indo-Islamic art and architect...
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| CHUCK WILLS Book Number: 86123 |
Published price: $17.99
Bibliophile price: £7.50
Product format: Paperback
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"Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun" said Mao Zedong. From the first firearms to semiautomatic weapons, this photographic history of civilisation is seen through the world's deadlies...
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| DIANA NEWALL & CHRISTINA UNWIN Book Number: 86204 |
Published price: £25.99
Bibliophile price: £8.00
Product format: Paperback
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Sit back and enjoy the double page spreads on new geometry, William Morris, 19th century revivals, opulent baroque, arabesques and floral motifs, foliate and floral saz designs which look rather Iz...
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| STUART TROTTER, ALFRED BESTALL Book Number: 86261 |
Published price: £9.99
Bibliophile price: £5.00
Product format: Hardback
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Always collectable, we are delighted to have this reprint of the Express Newspapers cartoon strip style stories of Rupert and Boomerarrow (1989 illustrated by John Harrold) Rupert and the Pepper-Ro...
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| EDITED BY GREGORY IRVINE Book Number: 86155 |
Published price: $75
Bibliophile price: £26.00
Product format: Hardback
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Vincent Van Gogh said in 1888 "In a way all my work is founded on Japanese art." With a spectacular 220 illustrations in colour and black and white, this huge volume measuring 13" x 9½" covers the...
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| ROYAL COLLECTION TRUST Book Number: 86407 |
Published price: £25
Bibliophile price: £8.00
Product format: Hardback
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Royal Gold, The Art of Gold and Sacred Gold with its lustre, and its warm yellow colour mirroring the sun, its rarity and its perceived purity, gold does not tarnish and has appealed to artists, go...
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| ROBERT O. KINSEY Book Number: 86416 |
Bibliophile price:
£6.00
Product format: Paperback
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'The soul of Nature often can be glimpsed in Japan's poetry - subtle insights also revealed, at times, in netsuke'. This quote perfectly sums up the power of netsuke, small sculptures with a histor...
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| EDNA RUSSMANN, N. STRUDWICK Book Number: 86421 |
Bibliophile price:
£6.00
Product format: Paperback
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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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| CLIVE ASLET Book Number: 86428 |
Published price: £35
Bibliophile price: £17.50
Product format: Hardback
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Sub-titled 'The Americans Who Revived the Country House in Britain', here is a book revealing the extent of a remarkable phenomenon. Many fabulous places still exist in their present form today th...
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