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The postage offer is our small gift to you this festive season and we thank you very much from Britain’s favourite armchair bargain bookshop for your loyalty and custom in 2012.
With good wishes from all on the Team, and we wish all you a Happy Christmas and a Happy New Year.
and the Bibliophile Team. EXCITING NEWS FOR 2013
Buckingham Palace Coronation Festival July 13th-16th 2013
Buckingham Palace Coronation Festival will take place over four days next July in the beautiful grounds of the Palace.
As a Royal Warrant holder, Bibliophile will have a unique opportunity to display our fantastic range of bargain books and show the high standards of our special bookselling company. It will be our very first time at a public exhibition!
We will be rubbing shoulders and boosting our reputation alongside 200 Royal Warrant Holders from cartwheel and cheese makers to welly and fence manufacturers, craftspeople, perfumiers and corporations like House of Fraser in our marquee.
PRIORITY tickets are available to OUR MEMBERS from now for a limited time. Tickets are expected to sell out by 15th December.
£30 for a day ticket, £90 for evening Gala concert on the lakeside.
A lot of entertainment at a reasonable price, and you’ll always be welcome at our Stand (number SP60) for a breather or a quiet read!
Exclusive Customer Priority Offer Hotline Telephone: 0844 858 9071 Quote Priority Code: CF2012
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59979 RIP VAN WINKLE, THE LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW AND OTHER STORIES
by Washington Irving Rip van Winkle is an amiable man whose home and farm suffer from his lazy neglect; a familiar figure about the village, he is loved by all except his wife. One autumn day he escapes her nagging to wander up into the mountains and there, after drinking
some liquor offered to him by a band of very strange folk, he settles down under a shady tree and falls asleep. He wakes up 20 years later and returns to his village to find that not only is his wife dead but war and revolution have changed many things. ‘The Legend of Sleepy Hollow’ tells of conscientious schoolmaster Ichabod Crane. Orderly and strict in school, out of school his life is disorderly and his head full of fearful fantasies. The Spectre Bridegroom, The Pride of the Village and Mountjoy, complete this collection of classic tales. 172 page paperback. ONLY £2
23879 THE WOODLANDERS by Thomas Hardy
Educated beyond her station, Grace Melbury returns to the woodland village of little Hintock and cannot marry her intended, Giles Winterborne. Her alternative choice proves disastrous, and in a moving tale that has vibrant characters, many humorous moments and genuine pathos coupled with tragic irony, Hardy eschews a happy ending. With characteristic derision, he exposes the cruel indifference of the archaic legal system off his day, and shows the tragic consequences of untimely adherence to futile social and religious proprieties. 320pp Paperback. ONLY £2
23871 TOM SAWYER AND HUCKLEBERRY FINN by Mark Twain
Tom Sawyer, a shrewd and adventurous boy, is as much at home in the respectable world of his Aunt Polly as in the self-reliant and parentless world of his friend Huck Finn. The two enjoy a series of adventures, accidentally witnessing a murder, establishing the innocence of the man wrongly accused, as well as being hunted by Injun Joe,
the true murderer, eventually escaping and finding the treasure that Joe had buried. Huckleberry Finn recounts the further adventures of Huck, who runs away from a drunken and brutal father, and meets up with the escaped slave Jim. They float down the Mississippi on a raft, participating in the lives of the characters they meet, witnessing corruption, moral decay and intellectual impoverishment. 208pp Paperback ONLY £2
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70320 KEEP CALM AND DRINK TEA DELUXE MUG by Robert Frederick Ltd
The entire Bibliophile Team is now drinking from this bright red, smooth-to-the-touch, curved big tea mug with a silhouette teapot design and the words printed 'KEEP CALM AND DRINK TEA'. Individually boxed for safe mailing, grab your mug now before we sell out! ONLY £4
71138 MRS SIMPSON
by Charles Higham 'She had more beaux than any other girl in Baltimore.' The romance of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor has been called the greatest love story of the 20th century. On publication in 1988, the author used explosive Secret Intelligence files to reveal a darker side to their 40 year relationship. Now he has updated his international bestseller. Although
Wallis gained control of the monarch with sexual techniques learned in China, she risked losing her power through a reckless and sustained affair with William Bullitt, the wealthy US Ambassador to France, with whom she conspired against Britain in the interest of Hitler. The book shows for the first time how Wallis and the King, later the Duke of Windsor, were almost destroyed in a blackmail plot in Paris that could have exposed their dangerous and treasonable association. Newly released FBI files demonstrate the extent of the Duchess's espionage activities and provide a wealth of information about the government, the royal family and the Secret Intelligence Service. 557pp in paperback with 16 pages of b/w photos. £8.99 NOW £4
71128 A FIELD FULL OF BUTTERFLIES: Seven CDs
by Rosemary Penfold An enchanting story of a lost world. Rosemary Penfold was born in 1938 in a traditional gypsy wagon and grew up in the fields of the English countryside. She recounts her life with a loving extended
family in a small but close knit community. From early memories of her father bringing home oranges during the war to the simple beauty of a field full of butterflies on a hot summer's day, Rosemary's elegant narrative captures the love and losses, hopes and struggles, traditions and prejudices that bound her to her family and help her adapt to a fast-changing world. Running time eight hours 50 minutes, unabridged, on seven CDs. £20 NOW £6
71516 THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA POP-UP by C. S. Lewis
Based on C. S. Lewis's classic Narnia books, the story literally springs to life in the hands of award-winning paper engineer Robert Sabuda. Each of the seven books in the series has its own pop- up spread rendered in spectacular detail, the first of which is the Great
Lion Aslan who terrifyingly reaches forward from the pages. The White Witch rules, making it always winter but never Christmas in 'The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe'. Inside a glittering, icy world, you can even lift the flap to open the wardrobe. In a colour action scene, complete with rope reins, 'Prince Caspian' is victorious in his pop-up scene. 'The Voyage of the Dawn Treader' pops up complete with golden dragon's head, rope rigging and a real material sail and so we go on, in scene after incredible scene. In fact these pages are so delicately
engineered, they may be safer in the hands of adult collectors! Suit ages five to adult.
£29.99 NOW £10
70238 SEEING THINGS: A Memoir
by Oliver Postgate
Postgate's creations Bagpuss, The Clangers, Ivor the Engine and Noggin the Nog, have made him one of the most endearing children's storytellers of the last 100 years. His own voiceovers on Bagpuss had a matchless blend of authority, kindliness and humour. When we are sick of the sight of Earth, we
can join the Clangers on the moon in a 'far, far away' place with the Soup Dragon. In this delicious memoir,
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Oliver Postgate describes how he came to create his stories and characters, developing innovative techniques alongside his friend and co-producer Peter Firmin. Amazingly, almost all of Oliver's films were made in a cowshed in Kent on a budget of next to nothing. But the path to filmmaking was far from conventional or even planned. Before his first TV production Alexander the Mouse in 1958, he had already been a war evacuee, conscientious objector, farm labourer, a relief worker in post-war Germany, an artist, actor and inventor. Read his extraordinary and adventurous life, both real and imagined, charmingly and beautifully told. 425pp with 16 pages of colour and black and white photos and line art.
£16.99 NOW £6
71164 UNKNOWN GERTRUDE JEKYLL
edited by Martin Wood Gertrude Jekyll designed about 400 gardens, but through her pen. While her 15 published books remain well known today, until now only a handful of the thousand or so articles, notes and letters she wrote have been accessible to any other than scholars. This book presents
them now for the public, gathering the very best and republishing them for the first time in a hundred years. Topics include garden planning, wild and woodland gardening, water gardening, garden ornament and individual plants. We witness the inspiration she drew from cottage gardens, her love of experiment and features in her garden at Munstead Wood. B/w and colour plates plus garden plans. 208 pages.
£20 NOW £7.50
71533 THE TRES RICHES HEURES OF JEAN, DUKE OF BERRY
by Jean Longnon and Raymond Cazelles
A ravishingly beautiful book filled with colourful gothic style, medieval illuminated depictions from the Bible, as well as fairytale castles, angels and animals. Created in the early 15th century, this Book of Hours was commissioned by the Duc de
Berry and decorated by the Limbourg brothers, Paul, Herman and Jean, all three of whom died in 1416, when the eldest was little more than 30 years old. The original consisted of 206 bound sheets of extremely well prepared, fine vellum. The book fully describes the various illustrations, elaborating on the meaning and symbolism to be found in each, thus further increasing your delight as you pore over every intricate detail. Every miniature and a selection of the decorated text pages have been reproduced to size. All biblical passages are from the Douay version, the English translation of the Latin Vulgate, which was the Bible used at the time. Deliciously decorated in full colour and reproduced on quality paper, 224 very large pages and a staggering 139 colour plates. With satin bookmark.
$125 NOW £45
63270 100 POSTERS OF PAUL COLIN by Jack Rennert
Paul Colin was born in Nancy, France, in 1892 and became an apprentice in the printing plant of Barbier. In 1910 he founded a magazine 'La Vache Enragée' and the poster he did for this journal appears for the very first time in this rare book. It is a 1977 first edition
outsize paperback measuring 11" x 16" of 112 pages. This is poster art at its very finest, advertising dramas, ballet, Parisian casinos, musical recordings, French resistance and, of course, the first poster for the Revue Nègre at the Champs-Elysées which launched his career. The emphasis of the book is on his poster output, but he was also a stage designer and handled costumes and lights. He is credited with designing over 800 stage sets. 100 posters are reproduced in this volume. ONLY £7
71539 VISHNU'S CROWDED TEMPLE: India Since the Great Rebellion by Maria Misra
The Western view of India depicts a sophisticated technological culture held back by entrenched attitudes deriving from both the caste system and from colonial attitudes imported by the British Raj. For some historians, a free market should inevitably lead to social freedoms
while for others, Indians themselves have colluded in elitism. The author gives a different view in this comprehensive study. For Indians, democracy is a mechanism for furthering group advantage, not for pursuing ideological or individual interests, and as a result there can be political partnerships between very diverse groups. When the British became dominant in India its society was in fact very fluid, and the view of a rigidly hierarchical caste system was sold to the British by Brahman elites anxious to perpetuate their own power, although it only existed in the northern Gangetic region. Elsewhere power arose from land control and military dominance. The author covers the British Raj before World War I, the inter-war years when the imperial system came under question, and the final section tells the story of the Nehruvian and Hindu nationalist projects to create a more integrated India. Partition resulted in one of the great mass migrations in history, accompanied by horrifying brutality as officials failed to consider the extent of the administrative and security operation. The book concludes with the significant contemporary displacement of Vishnu by the popular shape-changing monkey-god Hanuman. 536pp, glossary, maps, b/w illus. Paperback.
ONLY £7.50 Published by Bibliophile Ltd., Unit 5 Datapoint Business Centre, 6 South Crescent, London E16 4TL BOOKS FOR CHRISTMAS 71248 16 HANDMADE
CHRISTMAS CARDS Bright, colourful protective box with satin pull on the drawer protects 16 beautifully crafted hand made cards - two each of eight designs: Season’s Greetings with silver baubles on purple background; 3D silver tree with tiny green jewel star on card reading simply Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year inside; red jewels on big bauble with gold decorative bow; snowflakes and a similar set of designs for the tall shaped cards. For each, a white envelope of the correct size! Just arrived in time at Bibliophile. Super bargain price which equates to 50p per card. ONLY £8
70572 WONDERFUL CHRISTMAS UNDIES
by Edward Monkton Poet, artist, philosopher and interesting fellow, Edward Monkton’s collection of interesting thoughts celebrates Christmas from a rather touching and humorous angle.
Santa’s heavy sack: ‘And in his heavy sack the big man carried glory, wonder, happiness and love.’ ‘May the sausage of peace forever be dipped in the ketchup of happiness.’ ‘At Christmas let us praise the television for all the worldly joy it brings mankind.’ A bundle of joy and Christmas happiness in big bold handwritten thoughts alongside Purple Ronnie Giles Andreae’s distinctive cartoons. £6.99 NOW £3.50
62735 TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS: And Other Christmas Stories
edited by Rosemary Gray The title poem, familiar to children and adults the world over, introduces a collection of stories and verse with a Christmas theme, guaranteed to engage and amuse readers young and old. Likely to provoke laughter and
sometimes to bring a sentimental tear to the driest eye, this festive treasure trove is ideal for reading aloud or curling up with in a comfy corner. Scrooge himself would have found it difficult to resist distributing copies on Christmas morning! Authors include Charles Dickens, Louisa May Alcott, Hans Christian Andersen and Olive Thorne Miller. 320 page paperback, new from Wordsworth with b/w illus. ONLY £2
70996 BEST LOVED HYMNS, POEMS AND
READINGS by Martin H. Manser A reference book for every bookshelf and a resource for personal devotions, this collection will also be useful for making selections for weddings, Christenings or funerals. Each hymn, reading or poem is given an introduction which sets the background or gives interesting information. Did you know, for instance, that O, Little Town of Bethlehem was written by an American preacher inspired after attending a Christmas Eve service at the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem itself, or that in the Christmas of 1914 British and German forces in the trenches famously joined in singing Silent Night in their different languages? The readings are arranged in alphabetical order. Indices at the end of the book to enable readers to find a particular item by looking up its first line, its author, its overall theme or, where appropriate, its Bible reference. 281 pages.
£12.99 NOW £5
70907 AN EDINBURGH CHRISTMAS DVD by St. Mary’s Cathedral Choir
Once in Royal David’s City, In the Bleak Mid-winter, Adam Lay Ybounden, Of the Father’s Heart Begotten, Nativity Carol, Ding Dong! Merrily on High, Noel Nouvelet and It Came Upon a Midnight Clear plus ten
other Christmas favourites ending with Hark! The Herald Angels Sing on colour DVD. Featuring also Susan Hamilton (soprano), The Holyrood Clarsach Trio on harp and Matthew Owens on organ.
ONLY £16
71112 SNOWMAN 3D ADVENT CALENDAR by Xavi Re
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Glistening with silver glitter, just slide the parts together and count down the days until Christmas with this enchanting large advent calendar. The snowman across his girth is approximately 11" and quite tall at approximately 16". For wall
hanging. The colourful toys and wrapped presents are scattered at his feet. £7 NOW £3
Wishing you a very Happy Christmas is a Registered Trade Mark Proprietor: Annie Quigley
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