6 Collectables


72155 COMPLETE ALICE


SLIPCASE


by Lewis Carroll, illustrated by Helen Oxenbury


Only published in November 2012, we are


thrilled to have this £99 box set measuring 21.6 x 15.6 x 13.4cms. Pull the pale blue satin tie and open the little doors in the front of the slipcase to discover a library of 22 volumes including Who Stole the Tarts?, The Lobster Quadrille, Pig and Pepper, Advice from a Caterpillar, Down the Rabbit-Hole, Alice’s Evidence, Queen Alice, Humpty Dumpty, Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee and The Garden of Live Flowers among them. The award winning classic words of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Alice through the Looking Glass in 22 wee volumes each of approximately 20 pages brought to a new generation by virtue of Helen Oxenbury’s brightly animated illustrations, in colour and gorgeous line art. Alice is modernised in a little blue mini dress, white plimsolls and her long flowing blonde hair. £99 NOW £34


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today as it did on first publication. The freedom from adult constraint allied with the necessary disciplines to survive in a hostile world make for a gripping read. 320pp. Paperback. ONLY £2


70370 HOW MANY? Spectacular Paper Sculptures


by Ron Van Der Meer


Every book from the master paper engineer Ron Van Der Meer is a publishing spectacular. Each stunning pop- up page invites readers to look for different shapes and colours among the spectacular colourful paper sculptures and special effects. Leaping 6-8" tall from the pages when spread flat there are little strings, spirals, coloured plastic windows, translucent stars and slanted lines to count, which is almost impossible! Decide whether shadows, reflections and different colours count as additional or different shapes. With optical illusions for youngsters aged six to adult. Five big spreads. £15.99 NOW £7.50


69313 COMPLETE STORIES OF OZ by L. Frank Baum


When Uncle Henry and Aunt Em’s grey, grim Kansas farmhouse was picked up by the great summer cyclone, a wondrous adventure had begun. The whole house whirled around two or three times then rose slowly through the air with little Dorothy and dog Toto inside. After what seemed an age to Dorothy the house landed with a great crash and upon opening the door she and Toto were amazed to see a beautiful brilliant green land full of sunshine and flowers. It is not long before she and Toto meet the motley crew - Scarecrow, Lion and Tin Woodman - who are to become her travelling companions along the Yellow Brick Road which leads to the Emerald City and the Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Paperback, 1486 pages. ONLY £5


24417 GIFT BOX OF BOOKS


A specially commissioned boxed set of one large dot-to- dot book, one thick colouring book, large size, one small puzzle fun, suitable for car journeys, one junior word search and one fun pad where the aim is to join the top half with the bottom half of the opposite page. Five colouring pens in red, yellow, green, blue and black. With British standards quality mark. ONLY £2.50


70553 PUGWASH AND


THE SEA MONSTER by John Ryan


Cut-Throat Jake and his ugly crew are busy celebrating on Cactus Island, surrounded by their stolen treasure. So they are caught off guard when Captain Pugwash and his men arrive disguised as a sea monster. But more surprises follow for all the pirates when the real sea


monster turns up to investigate. Luckily Tom the quick- thinking cabin boy is on hand once again to save the day. Based on the 1976 original cartoon illustrations, big bold and funny in this new quality hardback reprint. £11.99 NOW £4


70552 PUGWASH AND THE GHOST SHIP by John Ryan


The famous Black Pig, home to Captain Pugwash and his crew, is in desperate need of a spring clean. But what begins as a simple exercise in painting and decorating soon leads to a plot so dastardly that it looks as thought the Captain’s days are finally up. Luckily young Tom the cabin boy has a brainwave and so Pugwash, the most famous pirate of all, survives again to sail the Seven Seas. Based on the 1962 original with colour witty cartoon illus and large quality pages. £11.99 NOW £4


70551 PUGWASH ALOFT by John Ryan Welcome aboard the Black Pig for another exciting adventure with Captain Pugwash and his loyal crew. As they strike up the music for singing practice, Cut- Throat Jake and his band of rebels lurk dangerously nearby. Disaster strikes! Jake and his men board the ship and capture the crew which sends Captain Pugwash scuttling up the nearest mast for safety. How will he ever get out of this one? Fortunately Tom the cabin boy has a clever plan and the crew can finish their singing practice after all - with a rousing victory song. Reprint of the 1958 original with big bold colour cartoons. £11.99 NOW £4


COLLECTABLES


…for gold conjures up a mist about a man, more destructive of all his old senses and lulling to his feelings than the fumes of charcoal…


- Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby


73105 WATCHES by Rick Sapp


Because of Man’s need to control his destiny, to count his manifold accomplishments, to cram as many activities as possible into a day or night, the watch will always be with us. As the author says, ‘Time


stands still for no one’ and ‘The watch is the messenger’. This charming book not only provides a short history of how Man first told the time, and developed the industry of time keeping, but also includes 40 of the most famous watchmakers of all time - Rolex, Gucci, Longines, Hermes, Seiko, Cartier and many more. There is even a photograph of an extremely ancient sundial from Marcianopolis. Watches are now, as they were 600 years ago in the time of Queen Elizabeth I of England, the most élite of fashion statements and a clear sign that the wearer has achieved career success and wealth. This book tells you how to recognise them. 96 pocket sized pages filled with attractive close-up photos in colour and b/w.


ONLY £4.50 72727 MASTERPIECES OF


ITALIAN DESIGN by design.doc From the Mona Lisa to


contemporary shoe design, Italy symbolises everything that is stylish and eyecatching. This stunning book on 20th century design starts with Bruno Bischofberger’s Arabesco coffee table of 1950, a miracle of swirling wood and glass. Marcello


Nizzoli was a genius who excelled in architecture, painting and graphic design, but is perhaps most famous for the Olivetti Lettera 22 typewriter. Architect Gio Ponti moved away from the neoclassical of his Pirelli skyscraper in Milan to the radical concept of the Superleggera chair. 1960s design was influenced by the Pop Art and kitsch epitomised by Alchimia Workshop: De Lucchi’s Sinerpica Lamp and the Mobile Infinito Range have affinities with the productions of the Memphis group, for instance Ettore Sottsass’s 1981 Ashoka Lamp with its colourful angularity and pseudo-makeshift lines. Streamlined sofas from B & B Italia take contemporary design to the end of the 20th century. The book concludes with designers who have adopted Italy as their design home, for instance the Tel Aviv born designer Ron Arad whose empire includes an Italian branch, and the South American Campana brothers who take plastic to new heights with their chairs apparently made of red string. 272pp, softback, sumptuously illustrated in colour on every page. £25 NOW £10


72604 FERDINAND COLUMBUS: Renaissance Collector


by Mark McDonald In cultural and intellectual summaries of this period, one fascinating figure has been largely overlooked - Ferdinand, the illegitimate son of Christopher Columbus - who not only travelled


on the fourth and final voyage to the New World in 1502, compiled an account of that journey and wrote the first biography of his father, but was without doubt the greatest bibliophile and print collector of his day. At the time of his death, his library contained over 15,000 volumes and more than 3,200 prints. Now vanished and known only through an inventory in Seville, this is the largest Renaissance print collection that we are aware of. Ferdinand’s own catalogue, with his extraordinary system for classifying the prints, survives in the Bibliotecca Colombina in Seville. All the major Renaissance artists working in the medium are represented in this beautiful volume, including: Albrecht Duerer, Lucan van Leyden, Ugo da Carpi, Hans Burgkmair, Giovanni Battista Palumba and Marcantonio Raimondi. The introductory chapters discuss Ferdinand Columbus’ life and work. Preface by Neil MacGregor, Director of the British Museum. 256 pages 24cm x 29.5cm with 20 colour and 178 b/w illus and maps. £25 NOW £14


72799 BEST OF JACKIE foreword by Nina Myskow


Nostalgic gems from our favourite teenage magazine where the strap line was ‘The Best Thing for Girls - Next to Boys.’ Any teenager from the 60s and 70s will love this collection of the best pop pictures, fashion, quizzes, on-the-spot interviews, star dating chart, hairstyles, Your Letters and of course the agony aunts, the Cathy and Claire page. Here is a very young Leslie Ash having her hair blow dried and curled, Donny Osmond, David Essex, a quiz to choose between Starsky or Hutch, craft ideas for those on a budget, the excitement of Poldark and the Last of the Pink Panther all tossed into the mix. Large softback packed with colour and archive photos, drawings and illus. £16.99 NOW £5


71367 LITTLE BOOK OF TIES by François Chaille


The tie has evolved as fashions changed from fluffy bows and knots, lacy ends and looped through the buttonholes of a jacket to the days of Beau Brummel in the early 1800s which was the tie’s golden age. Here is a truly glorious volume on the artistry of the tie with its wealth of motifs plus the know-how on how to tie the knot. Colour step-by-step photos. 120pp. £6.95 NOW £2.75


72447 DIECAST TOY CARS OF THE 1950s AND 1960s by Andrew Ralston


Particularly valuable if still in their original boxes, enjoy such examples as the rare Mercury Ferarri gift set priced £500+ or the red Alfa Romeo Exotic Coupé Cangura price guide £80, the Lone Star Roadmasters 1472 Cadillac from 1960, price £70 or the well known Dinky Toys Morestone Double Decker Red London Bus price £75. View 300 colour photographs of rare examples from Dinky, Matchbox, Corgi and Spot-On, Solido and CIJ, Märklin and Gama, Tekno and Mercury, Diapet and Cherryca Phenix. Packed with colourful and evocative illustrations from catalogues and period trade advertisements, this is a super collector’s guide for entry level or expert. 128 very large pages in softback packed with colour.


£19.99 NOW £7.50 70650 COMPLETE GUIDE TO 20th


CENTURY ANTIQUES by Martin Miller


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Not many people can afford to collect real antiques, but an interesting lower-budget alternative is to spot the design and craft items of your own time which may have a value in the future. This guide by the doyen of Antiques Collecting covers 20th century artefacts that have started to accumulate value, and covers furniture, jewellery, ceramics, clocks and watches, handbags, kitchenalia, posters, taxidermy, dolls, cameras and much more. Many of the items will be familiar from Grandma’s cupboard or the local car boot sale, for instance a blue and white striped Cornish Ware jug from 1959, which at the time of publication (2005, reprint 2011) was fetching £85. One of the great design periods of the 20th century was Art Deco, and examples featured here include a blue enamel guilloche clock from 1930, a jazzy Susie Cooper tea set and some stunning Deco scent bottles. Advertising is a rich source of cultural history, and examples featured here include a 1960 Bisto tin, a 1950 Tide washing powder packet and a 1966 Michelin Man. Pop Art in the Sixties produced iconic telephones, radios and lighting, while the postmodern end of the century saw a proliferation of retro styles. 456pp, softback, over 4000 items illustrated, briefly described and valued. £25 NOW £12.50


71680 MODE IN FURS: A Historical Survey


with 680 Illustrations by R. Turner Wilcox Begins with practical uses of reindeer hides and bearskins for warmth during the Stone Age, through the ancient civilisations of Egypt, Persia, Greece and Rome. The 680 line drawings depict furs of all times and places - panther skins of Egyptian high priests to ermine mantles of French queens. 258pp in softback. £15.99 NOW £4


72159 DISCOVERING ANTIQUE PRINTS by Ronald Russell


Now that photography has taken over nearly all of their functions, prints have become collectors’ items. Woodcuts and engravings may still be bought quite cheaply in fine examples of lithographs and coloured aquatints can be found at reasonable prices. This superb Shire guide book helps you distinguish the various types of prints, artists and engravers and covers some confusing matters of impressions, methods and colour and technical terms. Colour illus. 128pp in paperback. £9.99 NOW £4


71291 DISCOVERING BOOK COLLECTING by John Chidley


This Shire publication explains plainly the often obscure terminology used in describing books and explains such perplexing terms as ‘foxed’, ‘unopened’, ‘unsophisticated’ and ‘disbound’ explaining where to find the ‘title page’, the ‘fly-leaf’ and the ‘colophon’, as well as showing the collector how to detect a ‘first edition’, distinguish between ‘original boards’ and ‘contemporary tree-calf’ and collate his books to check for completeness. 128pp, illus small softback. £5.99 NOW £3


71028 ERROR WORLD by Simon Garfield Describes how a childhood obsession with stamp collecting became a full-blown midlife crisis. It is an eccentric and moving story of getting older and not necessarily wiser and interweaves tales of Pelé’s World Cup shirt, the man who guards stamps for the Queen, and a woman who is terrified of the Post Office Tower. Taking us from James Bond to the Gibbons Catalogue and back. 246pp in paperback. £8.99 NOW £2


72208 PORTABLE WRITING DESKS by David Harris


Early portables desks, Georgian, Victorian, desks in papier-mâché and other decorative materials are celebrated in this beautifully produced 40 page Shire booklet, complete with colour photos and much information on these small pieces of furniture which have largely been ignored as antiques. Illustrates the main types to be found. Paperback. £4.50 NOW £3


72217 SPOONS 1650-2000 by Simon Moore Spoons that once graced medieval ducal tables and those of base metal used by commoners are illustrated and described and for this second edition, and the coverage of the British Arts and Crafts Movement has been expanded, examining its contribution to European design at the turn of the 19th century. Our book traces the entire history of English spoons and their changes in style and form. 64 page paperback, colour photos. £5.99 NOW £3


72174 DELFTWARE TILES by Hans Van Lemmen


Italian potters bought the art of tin-glazed tiles to the Low Countries in the early 16th century. Huge


quantities were produced during the 17th and 18th centuries and the best tiles came from Delft. Applied to walls and fireplaces, their primary purpose was functional but the scenes and decorations painted on them have made them a fascinating field of study, now eagerly collected or carefully preserved in situ. 48 page Shire softback, colour photos. £4.99 NOW £3


71479 BRITISH FURNITURE 1600-2000 edited by Dr. Clive Edwards,


Treve Rosoman, Jonathan Meyer et al Each section focuses on seven or eight master creators who represent the taste, fashion and craftsmanship of the era. Austere 17th century Puritan style is contrasted with an elaborate marquetry writing desk of Gerrit Jensen from the Queen’s collection. William Kent represents the high Baroque, while the later 18th century saw the restrained elegance of Chippendale, Hepplewhite and Sheraton. The Victorian Gothic revival led by Pugin and Burges was associated with the same respect for craftsmanship that inspired the Arts and Crafts Movement and the creations of Morris and Co. In the 20th century manufacturers such as Heal, Gillow, Ercolani and G-Plan sought to maintain the values of craftsmanship. Finally John Makepeace’s arresting designs have led a recent craft revival. 352pp, superbly illus in colour.


£25 NOW £14.50 CRIME


It’s a pleasant world we live in sir, a very pleasant world. There are bad people in it, Mr Richard, but if there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers. Ha ha!


- Charles Dickens, The Old Curiosity Shop


72541 SIX: The Real James Bonds 1909-1939 by Michael Smith


The British Secret Intelligence Service, which would eventually become MI6, was first set up in 1909. There was a perception that Britain was awash with German spies, army officers claiming to be on holiday “learning English”, preparing for war. But although there were many spies, the


information they collected was freely available and the threat was minimal. This did not stop the press stoking things up. The SIS was already established with a network of operatives in Germany and neighbouring European states. In this unauthorised history, Michael Smith tells the complete story of the Service’s founding and early years, and the remarkable men that ran things and often did the actual spying. Spying on Germany up to, during and after the Great War was inevitably the main preoccupation, but the SIS was instrumental in other major events, such as the murder of Rasputin, thought to be working with German operatives (and having the ear of the German-born Tsarina) to persuade the Tsar to make peace with Germany. Following the Romanov’s downfall the SIS also undertook some astonishingly daring missions inside Bolshevik Russia, and there were others to New York and the Middle East. In the 1930s the focus shifted back to Hitler’s Germany, although things were much more difficult second time around. Perfectly true rollicking tales of derring-do read like a Bond thriller - “capital sport”, as the original “M”, Cdr Mansfield Cumming put it in 1909. 468pp paperback, b/w photos. £12.99 NOW £6


72432 BLACK SHIP by Dudley Pope


HMS Hermione was the Black Ship which in 1797 saw the worst mutiny in British naval history. The ship’s commander Captain Pigot had been in trouble the year before at anchor in Haiti, when he ordered an American skipper to be swished with a rope’s end after his ship the Mercury had rammed Pigot’s Surprise. Pigot had to apologise and exchange ships,


becoming captain of the Hermione bound for the West Indies, where his flogging of the men and even of officers soon aroused hatred. An incident with midshipman Casey for overlooking a loose gasket became a trigger point. Casey apologised but refused to go down on his knees. Other officers petitioned Pigot not to carry out a flogging, but 150 crewmen of all nationalities were summoned to witness the punishment. The humiliation of Casey triggered a violent rampage in which not only Captain Pigot was savagely slaughtered but also others who were completely innocent. Although an officer, Casey himself was spared and his account forms the basis of the story. The mutineers sailed the Hermione into a Spanish port and surrendered her, and over the next 10 years more than half of them were hunted down by the British navy and hanged. The book concludes with the daring raid by Captain Edward Hamilton to recapture the Hermione. A ripping true yarn. 367pp, paperback, b/w reproductions, bibliography.


£15.99 NOW £6.50 71958 VICTORIAN MURDERS: Mysteries of


Police and Crime by Major Arthur Griffiths Contains all the most shocking and bloodthirsty cases of murder from the Victorian true-crime classic Mysteries of Police and Crime. From Elizabeth Brownrigg, who whipped her domestic servant to death, to the horrific tale of Henry Wainwright, who tried to transport the dismembered body of his lover across London, here are countless tales of prisoners, serial killers, sadists, bloody footprints, dashed-out brains and mouldering corpses. 300 unnumbered paperback pages, illus by Arthur Rackham. £14.99 NOW £6


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