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: £50.00
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...
A TO Z OF FOOTBALL COLLECTIBLES
CARL WILKES    Book Number: 90845
Published price: £25
Bibliophile price: £8.00
Product format: Hardback

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Sub-titled 'Precious Football Cards and Sought-After Soccer Stickers', here you'll discover priceless information on the history and likely value of football cards and stickers, now highly investab...
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...
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ANTIQUE CARPETS
ABRAHAM LEVI MOHEBAN    Book Number: 91367
Published price: £150
Bibliophile price: £65.00
Product format: Hardback

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Sub-titled 'Twenty-Five Centuries of Weaving', this is a spectacular two volume set, slipcased and presented in a mailing carton and produced by the Princeton Architectural Press. There are no les...
MAIOLICA: Italian Renaissance Ceramics
TIMOTHY WILSON    Book Number: 91377
Published price: £50
Bibliophile price: £16.50
Product format: Hardback

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The brightly coloured tin-enamelled earthenware called Maiolica was among the major accomplishments of decorative arts in 16th century Italy. This splendid huge tome is an in depth look at its his...
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...
POLISHED TO PERFECTION: Japanese Cloisonne
ROBERT SINGER    Book Number: 91733
Published price: £39.99
Bibliophile price: £14.00
Product format: Hardback

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Namikawa Yasuyuki was an undisputed master of cloisonné. He would sit his guests in the estate's main reception room and the first thing he would do would show them a 'process set' of six samples ...
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: £8.00
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 ...
HOW WATSON LEARNED THE TRICK: A Sherlock Holmes Story
SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE    Book Number: 92397
Published price: $25
Bibliophile price: £7.50
Product format: Hardback

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Created for the Queen Mary's Doll's House on display at Windsor Castle, marvel over this exact replica of a miniature book, in print here for the very first time. In this original Sherlock Holmes ...
ART DECO COLLECTABLES: Fashion Objets from the Jazz Age
RODNEY & DIANA CAPSTICK-DALE    Book Number: 92410
Published price: £34.95
Bibliophile price: £18.00
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: £4.75
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...
100 MIDCENTURY CHAIRS AND THEIR STORIES
LUCY RYDER RICHARDSON    Book Number: 92835
Published price: £16.99
Bibliophile price: £6.99
Product format: Hardback

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With a 'chair timeline', including the very best of European, Scandinavian, American and Japanese design, here are the top 100 most interesting, most controversial, or simply most beautiful chairs ...
CHADBURY: A Town and Industrial Scape In '0' Gauge
ERIC BOTTOMLEY    Book Number: 92868
Published price: £25
Bibliophile price: £9.00
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: £6.00
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...
RICH DESIGNS OF CLARICE CLIFF
Richard Green    Book Number: 92971
Published price: £55
Bibliophile price: £10.00
Product format: Hardback

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Rare 1995 first edition, this exciting volume presents both a fascinating insight into the life of Clarice Cliff, the innovative designer of her time, and is the most detailed reference of her desi...
MASSIMO LISTRI CABINET OF CURIOSITIES
GIULIA CARCIOTTO & A. PAOLUCCI    Book Number: 88323
Published price: £
Bibliophile price: £125.00
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: £9.00
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...