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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.
| DAVID MICHAEL SMITH Book Number: 88249 |
Published price: £12.95
Bibliophile price: £3.25
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: £3.50
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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| LT. COL. EDWARD BARRETT MBE Book Number: 88419 |
Published price: £40
Bibliophile price: £7.50
Product format: Hardback
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The ceremonial sword is a sign of status and will often be made of precious or rare metals, with a scabbard designed to display intricate craftsmanship and expensive materials. The author has visi...
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| AUDREY DUDSON Book Number: 88757 |
Published price: £25
Bibliophile price: £4.00
Product format: Hardback
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The Dudson Group, unique in the Staffordshire Potteries, has sadly gone into administration, hence the disposal of this now rare reference book. It celebrates the bicentenary of a company of potte...
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| JUDITH MILLER Book Number: 88833 |
Published price: £125
Bibliophile price: £45.00
Product format: Hardback
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Bibliophile is very excited to have found these individually boxed, two-volume glamorous hardback slipcased set, comprising Volume One A Visual Index and Volume Two The Geographical Index. The Vis...
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| ERIN THOMPSON Book Number: 88956 |
Published price: £25
Bibliophile price: £5.00
Product format: Hardback
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Collecting is a curious behaviour. Collectors and their critics have always believed that classical art has special powers: to legitimate rule, to create identities, to express wealth, to enervate ...
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| EMMA BRIDGEWATER Book Number: 89612 |
Published price: £12.99
Bibliophile price: £4.50
Product format: Paperback
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The inside story of Emma Bridgewater's beloved pottery and homeware designs. Emma established her successful business in 1985 producing a range of mugs, jugs and teapots inspired by traditional sh...
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| HERMAN MELVILLE Book Number: 89694 |
Published price: £35
Bibliophile price: £14.00
Product format: Hardback
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Quite superb paper engineering by Gérard Lo Monaco and lino cut illustrations literally lift forward in 3D on every righthand page of Melville's abridged classic Moby-Dick or The Whale. The story ...
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| HOWARD PILTZ Book Number: 89991 |
Published price: £12.99
Bibliophile price: £5.00
Product format: Hardback
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The author's two passions, for narrow-gauge railways and stamp-collecting, makes this book a revelation and a delight to read. Both hobbies lead him all over the world as he chases stamps ranging ...
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| RICHARD KNOTT Book Number: 89993 |
Published price: £25
Bibliophile price: £6.50
Product format: Hardback
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This fascinating and nostalgic book is based on the letters of six prolific correspondents in the war years. Three of them were famous members of the London scene: Noel Coward, Cecil Beaton and Fre...
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| J. SMITH AND FOUGASSE Book Number: 83446 |
Published price: £14.99
Bibliophile price: £7.00
Product format: Hardback
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Measuring just 3.6 x 4.8cm or 1½" x nearly 2" and ½", this teeny weeny satin miniature book has regal gold decorations on the cream satin cover, satin bookmark and gilt-edged pages and inside, even...
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| JOSH SIMS Book Number: 90145 |
Published price: £14.99
Bibliophile price: £5.50
Product format: Hardback
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From 1916, scooters zipped onto the streets. The aviation industry developed this transport to be genuinely innovative by having a step-through body, unlike motorbikes. Learn how, during WWII, Volu...
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| CLAIRE WILCOX Book Number: 89905 |
Published price: £8.99
Bibliophile price: £4.25
Product format: Paperback
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The handbag as we know it complements the pared down clothing of the modern era, where pockets stuffed with paraphernalia would interfere with a desirable streamlined silhouette. In earlier days o...
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| P. WILLIAMSON AND P. MOTTURE Book Number: 89941 |
Published price: $27.50
Bibliophile price: £12.00
Product format: Hardback
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The Victoria and Albert Museum has one of the world's greatest collections of medieval and Renaissance artefacts, and this selection of around 60 of them displays not only their beauty but also the...
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| JUDITH MILLER Book Number: 89942 |
Published price: £25
Bibliophile price: £9.00
Product format: Hardback
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Throwing out an old rug or chair can be a thing of the past with this comprehensive guide to reviving worn or broken items. Sometimes we soldier on with a drawer that sticks or a chipped teapot, bu...
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| DONALD WIGAL Book Number: 90336 |
Bibliophile price:
£6.00
Product format: Hardback
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Jean Cocteau said, 'Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing towards death. To smoke opium is to get out of the train while it is still moving. It is to concern one...
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| REBECCA REGO BARRY Book Number: 90585 |
Published price: £12.99
Bibliophile price: £6.00
Product format: Paperback
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Feed your inner bibliophile with this volume on unearthed rare and antiquarian books. Read about the family whose discovery in their attic of a copy of Action Comics No.1, the first appearance of ...
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| MARTIN JENKINS & TOM FROST Book Number: 90628 |
Published price: £15
Bibliophile price: £8.50
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...
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| HANS SILVESTER Book Number: 90641 |
Published price: £16.95
Bibliophile price: £5.50
Product format: Hardback
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Up, up and away with these beautiful colourful kites shaped in segmented fierce tigers, dragonflies, butterflies, birds. The first kites appeared in China in the 4th century BC and these real and ...
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| DAVID ALAN RICHARDS Book Number: 90382 |
Bibliophile price:
£8.50
Product format: Hardback
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Born to expatriates in India in 1865, Rudyard Kipling returned to England for his prep school education, became a journalist in what is now Pakistan, and married an American in London. After being...
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| ADRIEN GOETZ & C. JOANNIS Book Number: 90497 |
Published price: £9.95
Bibliophile price: £5.50
Product format: Hardback
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Throughout the ages, jewellery has been a source of fascination to art enthusiasts as it highlights the splendour of great historical figures such as Josephine Bonaparte, and offers the viewer insi...
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| 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...
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| JOHN THACKRAY & BOB PRESS Book Number: 90838 |
Published price: £12.99
Bibliophile price: £6.00
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...
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| CARL WILKES Book Number: 90845 |
Published price: £25
Bibliophile price: £9.50
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...
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| JORDAN GOODMAN Book Number: 91098 |
Published price: £25
Bibliophile price: £9.00
Product format: Hardback
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Sub-titled 'Joseph Banks and His Collectors: An Adventurous History of Botany', here is a bold new history on how botany and global plant collecting transformed the world. Botany was the darling a...
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| RICHARD GREEN AND DES JONES Book Number: 91253 |
Published price: £55
Bibliophile price: £25.00
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...
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