Collectables and Antique books to judge quality and design of collectable items, including books! Miller's antiques price guides to oddities.
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...
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CHRISTOPHER WARWICK Book Number: 88646 |
Bibliophile price:
£45.00
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: £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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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ALEXIS TURNER Book Number: 92255 |
Published price: £16.95
Bibliophile price: £7.50
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 ...
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RODNEY & DIANA CAPSTICK-DALE Book Number: 92410 |
Published price: £34.95
Bibliophile price: £17.00
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 ...
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CARROLL PURSELL Book Number: 92663 |
Published price: £21.50
Bibliophile price: £3.00
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...
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ERIC BOTTOMLEY Book Number: 92868 |
Published price: £25
Bibliophile price: £8.50
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 ...
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LISA KIDNER & SAM KNEE Book Number: 92912 |
Published price: £9.99
Bibliophile price: £5.00
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...
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GIULIA CARCIOTTO & A. PAOLUCCI Book Number: 88323 |
Published price: £
Bibliophile price: £90.00
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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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...
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DELIA PEMBERTON Book Number: 93376 |
Published price: $15.95
Bibliophile price: £3.75
Product format: Hardback
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The Egyptologist and lecturer for the British Museum and Victoria & Albert Museum Delia Pemberton has created a beautiful book on the treasures, wisdom and spirituality of Buddhism. Through carefu...
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NICOLA LISLE Book Number: 93400 |
Published price: £25
Bibliophile price: £12.00
Product format: Hardback
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Popular in Britain since the late 17th century, dolls' houses are tiny slices of social history that give us a fascinating glimpse into domestic life over the last 300 years. In this beautifully i...
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MAX BRYANT Book Number: 93580 |
Published price: £25
Bibliophile price: £9.00
Product format: Hardback
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"Knowing the old, you well understand the new." This motto is inscribed on a bust of the 18th century antiquarian Charles Townley, for whom the house at 14 Queen Anne's Gate, formerly 7 Park Street...
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NINA CHAKRABARTI Book Number: 93695 |
Published price: £12.99
Bibliophile price: £5.50
Product format: Hardback
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Some collections are put together over a lifetime, while others last a single afternoon. You might be a sucrologist, collecting packets of sugar, or perhaps you would rather collect stamps, matchb...
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JEAN-PIERRE MOHEN ET AL Book Number: 93720 |
Published price: £7.95
Bibliophile price: £4.25
Product format: Paperback
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The archaeologist author together with Christiane Eluère takes us back beyond the borders of history. Achilles, Odysseus and other heroes of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey fought with shields and sword...
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MARK BERRY Book Number: 94071 |
Published price: £20
Bibliophile price: £10.00
Product format: Paperback
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A maiden voyage medal and brochure from the SS Imperator, a brass bell from RMS Aquitania, commemorative plaque, propellors, cards posted from sea, pen and ink drawings, a saloon chair, a cutaway r...
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IGLOO BOOKS Book Number: 94080 |
Published price: £17.99
Bibliophile price: £7.99
Product format: Hardback
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Inserted into tissue paper pockets throughout this large spiral bound, magnetic fastening folder are facsimile ephemera such as the front page of The Daily Mirror 1924 with the headline 'The King A...
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OWEN HOPKINS Book Number: 94082 |
Published price: £40
Bibliophile price: £29.00
Product format: Hardback
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Here are the court battles over ownership of pieces, new building materials and the key institutions include the Louvre, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, British Museum, Tate Modern, the Hermitage, ...
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DAVID ROBERTS Book Number: 94154 |
Published price: £20
Bibliophile price: £11.00
Product format: Hardback
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'A Visual History of the World's Greatest 250 Rock Acts' with striking, colour-coded infographics, the book provides an overview of every aspect of each band's story. See at a glance which musicia...
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P. LACOVARA & Y. J. MARKOWITZ Book Number: 93937 |
Published price: £34.95
Bibliophile price: £22.00
Product format: Hardback
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Jewels of the Nile celebrates the very first time that the Worcester Art Museum's internationally important collection of Egyptian jewellery - which has undergone conservation and cleaning - has be...
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