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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.
| MARC ALLUN Book Number: 82606 |
Published price: £8.99
Bibliophile price: £4.50
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A regular on BBC's Antiques Roadshow, here is a delightful nest of insights from a professional who knows the game and who can weave it into words. Go in search of stolen masterpieces, learn the s...
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| ROSEMARY SIMMONS Book Number: 82476 |
Published price: £16.99
Bibliophile price: £4.50
Product format: Paperback
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This informative guide to collecting prints made from 1900 onwards explains what prints are, how they can be recognised and the various techniques that are used in the making. Artists have always b...
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| TIMOTHY NEWBURY Book Number: 82487 |
Published price: £7.95
Bibliophile price: £2.00
Product format: Paperback
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Frames fulfil a variety of functions, from protection to decoration. They can indicate ownership or assert the importance of the paintings they enclose. When a painting retains its original frame...
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| SUSAN BREWER Book Number: 82892 |
Published price: £30
Bibliophile price: £6.00
Product format: Hardback
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This nostalgia-packed offering is sure to include at least some of the toys that you played with as a child, and maybe those that your parents and grandparents loved as well. Although it concentrat...
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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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| EDITED BY JOEL JESSUP Book Number: 83777 |
Published price: £19.99
Bibliophile price: £5.00
Product format: Hardback
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"Beyond the obvious facts that you are a bachelor, a solicitor, a Freemason and an asthmatic, I know nothing whatever about you." In a dramatic return from his faked death, Holmes is on classic for...
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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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| SANDRA FORTY Book Number: 84494 |
Bibliophile price:
£3.50
Product format: Hardback
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The appearance of the first modern stamp, the Penny Black in 1840, marked a decisive step in the modernisation of telecommunications. It was the culmination of a series of reforms introduced by Si...
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| MARK MCDONALD Book Number: 84344 |
Published price: £25
Bibliophile price: £4.50
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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| BEATRIX POTTER Book Number: 84201 |
Published price: $25
Bibliophile price: £4.50
Product format: Hardback
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Ingrained into our psyche since infancy, the delicate, ethereal watercolours of Beatrix Potter are very special. This celebration of her art and letters contains many examples of her work, with ext...
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| RICHARD GLAZIER Book Number: 84218 |
Published price: £13.99
Bibliophile price: £2.50
Product format: Paperback
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Originally published in 1899, this compendium of over 700 of the author's own drawings is a delight for the eye, particularly if you are a designer or a student of artistic styles. The early chapte...
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| JEREMY COOPER Book Number: 84233 |
Published price: $34.95
Bibliophile price: £12.50
Product format: Paperback
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The furniture designs of the greats of the period such as William Morris and Charles Rennie Mackintosh are even more popular today than they were in their creators' lifetimes. Figures such as Willi...
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| SIMON DE PURY & W. STADIEM Book Number: 84437 |
Published price: $25.99
Bibliophile price: £6.50
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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| INTRO BY COLIN MCKENZIE Book Number: 84847 |
Published price: £39.95
Bibliophile price: £20.00
Product format: Hardback
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The unprecedented and often provocative juxtapositions of the 300 works represented here echo the complexity, diversity, richness and modernity of Chinese art. For more than four millennia, dynast...
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| Christopher Warwick Book Number: 73173 |
Bibliophile price:
£550.00
Product format: Hardback
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Her Majesty the Queen, Royal Edition by Vivienne Westwood is limited to 500 copies with special cover and clamshell case designed by British fashion legend Vivienne Westwood. Comes with the number...
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| CHRISTOPHER WARWICK Book Number: 81198 |
Bibliophile price:
£550.00
Product format: Hardback
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Her Majesty the Queen, Royal Edition by Vivienne Westwood limited to 500 copies with special cover and clamshell case is designed by British fashion legend Vivienne Westwood. A hand-crafted coutur...
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| BRIGETTE BARRAGER Book Number: 85208 |
Published price: £12.99
Bibliophile price: £5.00
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: £6.00
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: £6.00
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: £12.00
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: £9.50
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: £9.00
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: £8.00
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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| EMMANUELLE DIRIX & C. FIELL Book Number: 85645 |
Published price: £30
Bibliophile price: £7.50
Product format: Paperback
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British model Twiggy wears a long black sequinned evening gown with pale red tights and high-heeled red shoes by Biba, 1971 in Biba's Art Deco-themed Kensington store. In another photo shoot she w...
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| CLARA SCHMIDT Book Number: 85944 |
Bibliophile price:
£5.00
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:
£5.00
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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