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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.
| 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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| 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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| ALAN BAMBERGER Book Number: 85605 |
Published price: £15.99
Bibliophile price: £3.50
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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| 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: £5.00
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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| EDNA RUSSMANN, N. STRUDWICK Book Number: 86421 |
Bibliophile price:
£3.50
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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| DR TOBIAS CAPWELL Book Number: 86834 |
Published price: £20
Bibliophile price: £9.00
Product format: Hardback
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A visually spectacular gallery featuring more than 350 examples of edged weapons from around the world, from Ancient Egyptian flint knives to the rondel and ballock daggers of medieval Europe, and ...
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| C. BRUZZONE & H. HAWORTH Book Number: 87102 |
Published price: £7.99
Bibliophile price: £4.00
Product format: Paperback
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A companion to Dress-Up Russian Revolution code 87103, here are two cut-out dolls with tabs and 14 costumes to make, play with and learn along the way. Fold firmly along the dotted lines to stand ...
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| PETER JACOBS Book Number: 87084 |
Published price: £20
Bibliophile price: £7.50
Product format: Paperback
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The Schneider Trophy, winner of a race for seaplanes and flying boats; cap and bag of the Women's RAF, control of velocity test, pilots' notes, RAF Association remembrance garland, Vulcan XM627, Ni...
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| STUART TROTTER, ALFRED BESTALL Book Number: 86261 |
Published price: £9.99
Bibliophile price: £4.00
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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| BARBARA HULANICKI Book Number: 87725 |
Published price: £25
Bibliophile price: £10.00
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...
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| GLORIA KOENIG & PETER GÖSSEL Book Number: 86809 |
Bibliophile price:
£10.00
Product format: Hardback
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The creative duo Charles Eames (1907-1978) and Ray Kaiser Eames (1912-1988) were one of the most transformative forces in design history and nothing says modernist perfection like the Eames chair a...
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| RACHEL TRETHEWEY Book Number: 88077 |
Published price: £20
Bibliophile price: £8.00
Product format: Hardback
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Before we commemorated with poppies, we commemorated with pearls. This was the campaign the 'Red Cross Pearls', an idea by Lady Northcliffe to raise money for the British Red Cross by collecting en...
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| SIMON HEPTINSTALL Book Number: 87794 |
Published price: $19.99
Bibliophile price: £8.00
Product format: Paperback
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Sub-titled 'A Graphic Guide to Automotive Logos and Emblems', and endorsed by the A.A., here is an illustrated guide to iconic automobile badges of the last 120 years. Covering over 90 marques fro...
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| ARTHUR WARD Book Number: 87807 |
Published price: £25
Bibliophile price: £12.00
Product format: Hardback
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Sub-titled 'From Training Guides to Propaganda Posters' here for the first time is a single volume entirely dedicated to a long-overlooked component of wartime collectables. It is designed to comp...
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| DAVID MICHAEL SMITH Book Number: 88249 |
Published price: £12.95
Bibliophile price: £7.50
Product format: Hardback
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A Thames & Hudson quality publication, beautifully designed with plenty of white paper space around hundreds of colour images of exquisite artifacts like golden cygnet rings, a belly-handled amphor...
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| VIRGINIA CAMPBELL Book Number: 88250 |
Published price: £12.95
Bibliophile price: £7.50
Product format: Hardback
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The story of Rome can be told as much through its objects as it can be documented in a history book. There are complex works of art that represent the ideology of a ruler, functional tools to kill...
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| 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...
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