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Est. 1978 73447 MAGICAL MUSICALS: STOCKING FILLERS Great Gift Ideas for Under £5


73593 ERTÉ: 20 Beautiful Postcards


by Flame Tree Publishing You will be covered in beautifully glistening gold glitter because this is the expense that has been taken to present this the cover of Art Deco collection of 20 beautiful postcards. Each card is removable from the softback with a small tug and each is a classic Erté (1892-1990) design - Moonlight, New York New York,


Rose Dancer, Opening Night, Blossom Umbrella and 16 more. With space for address and stamp, quality colour sturdy postcards of beautiful fashion designs and women in their bejewelled glory. ONLY £4.50


72557 100 HISTORIC SHIPS


IN FULL COLOUR by John Batchelor


Measuring over 9" x 12", this super softback features the work of artist John Batchelor who provides the panoramic view of a number of historic ships from the royal barge of the Egyptian pharaoh Khufu (2657BC), a Greek trireme of 480BC and the Viking ships that visited


North America around AD1001 to Columbus’ flagship The Santa Maria (1492), early American warships, 15th century Spanish caravels, a Venetian galley, The Mayflower (1620), the first submarine (1776), The Cutty Sark, The Lusitania, The Queen Mary, The SS Norway (a modern luxury liner) and many others. A superbly rendered collection of 100 original colour images and extensive notes provide anecdotal information such as launch date, tonnage, length and speed. 48 huge pages. $11.95 NOW £3.50


Two CDs by Reader’s Digest Love Changes Everything, A Fine Romance, Cheek to Cheek, Bewitched, My Funny Valentine, Maria, I Know Him so Well, There’s No Business Like Show Business, Talk to the Animals, Oh What a


Circus, Any Dream Will Do, Over the Rainbow, Send In the Clowns, The Lady Is A Tramp, Mack the Knife and All That Jazz are among 37 tracks in total on this now discontinued Reader’s Digest product. ONLY £5


73378 SEWING KIT - MULBERRY


by Wellspring Gifts Ideal for travel, this lightweight sewing kit includes teeny scissors, black, red and grey thread, needles, a threader, safety pins, pearl white and two black buttons and a tape measure. So if your elastic goes or


your bra strap busts, this little kit will get you out of a fix. Comes in mulberry coloured lightweight embossed box with Art Deco style pattern and the words SEWING KIT.


ONLY £3 73497 I TOLD YOU I WAS


ILL: Dying For a Laugh by Liz Evers


Famous Last Words include “They couldn’t hit an elephant at this distance” and Oscar Wilde’s “One of us must go” as he contemplated the wallpaper. Epitaphs of note include “He was literally a father to all the children in the parish”. Bela Lugosi, the actor famed for his performance as Dracula, asked to be buried in his


count’s cape, while a British doctor left instructions that a steel stake should be pounded through his heart to avoid


CONTINUED ON PAGE 17 GIFT IDEAS GIFT IDEAS TO SUIT ALL THE FAMILY WITH HUGE SAVINGS


UK orders received by Friday 13th December will be despatched in time for Christmas.


We wish all our customers a very Happy Christmas


and the Team (plus cats)


and Lottie in her ‘Santa’ coat made by lovely customer and my pen pal Mrs Phyllis Avant.


73842 Emma


73921 Marcasite Watch £29.99 NOW £20


Bridgewater Shopper £20 NOW £10


JEWELLERY & GIFTS £10 & OVER PAGE 18


73362 M. C. Escher Jigsaw $18.95 NOW £8.50


JIGSAWS & PUZZLES SEE PAGE 19 73391 A Spectacular


3D puzzle ONLY £14


73559 LETTERED CREATURES


by Brad Leithauser


and Mark Leithauser We will eat our copy of Bibliophile if readers do not find this extraordinary book the most unusual rendering of the alphabet they have ever seen. We defy anybody to deny that the choice of a Striped-Face Unicornfish to


73788 £12.99 NOW £6.50


SEE CHRISTMAS BOOKS ON BACK PAGE


74021 £12.99 NOW £6 73557 John Armstrong The Paintings £41.50 NOW £18 See page 2


illustrate the letter U is at the very least unusual - not to say unique. Produced in collaboration by two talented brothers, the verse might be said to be reminiscent of Stephen Sondheim and the sketches to raise echoes of Sir John Tenniel who drew the illustrations for the Alice books, but we believe comparisons are out of place. As the publisher says, this is a 'non-pareil, an ark containing its own precious world of verbal and graphic invention'. Each weird creature is captured in an eight-line poem plus a unique depiction of what it looks like. Here is the only alphabet ever to have a Zedonk to illustrate its last letter. In case you are wondering, that is a cross between a zebra and a donkey. And we can be sure no-one before has used Exes to


73355 Pop-Up Book $34.95 NOW £12


73399 DISGUSTING FACTS £9.99 NOW £5


SEE PAGE 19 FOR DOZENS OF CHILDREN’S GIFTS


73726 $45 NOW £20 see page 18


74027 ONLY £35 see page 18


... GIFT GUIDE PULL-OUT PAGES 17-20


represent the letter before Y! They are species like the Dodo who will not be coming back! A delightful 64 pages 26cm x 21cm with delicate graphite drawings.


£16.95 NOW £8 Let your Budget go further.


Books Make Lovely Gifts… For Family & Friends or Yourself!


Our Christmas catalogue is brimming with a cornucopia of Festive Christmas books to collectable art tomes... none of which will tarnish before Spring!


Treat yourself or select a gift in a category you may normally skip. Bibliophile has once again this year devised helpful categories to make useful suggestions for bargain-priced gift buying. The gift sections are Stocking Fillers under a fiver, Children’s gift ideas, £5- £10, £10 and Over and finally our Yuletide books (see back page).


Add to this DVDs and a new range of music CDs from Classical to film theme tunes (see Home Entertainment) and over 30 topics of interest (see Contents on page 2) to suit all tastes and budgets.


Our prices have not risen in over ten years and the book production quality and range of rare and remaindered and under-exposed new titles we come across has improved year on year. We can afford to be more “picky” for our loyal customers and drive a harder bargain with publishers over price since more than 100,000 titles are printed each year in the UK!


GIFT IDEAS £5-£10


73596 M. C. ESCHER PLAYING CARDS: Two


Poker-Sized Decks by M. C. Escher


Thoughtfully crafted and elegantly


illustrated with fine art designs by M. C. Escher (1898- 1972), who is best known for his wood engravings and lithographs of repeating geometric patterns and visual paradoxes, these two full sets of 52 playing cards include Jokers and feature two of his fish designs. Unusual to acquire playing cards at a bargain price. ONLY £6.50


73594 M. C. ESCHER JOURNAL: ORANGE AND


TEAL by Pomegranate Turquoise, blue, brown and black geometric design by the famous Dutch artist M. C. Escher (1898- 1972) amply demonstrates his experimentation in duality, rhythm and perception in this geometrical structured, playful design. It has been used to decorate the cover of


this sturdy hardbound journal with a folding pocket on the inside cover, lined notepaper, a cream satin bookmark and very snazzy magnetic strip ‘clamshell’ fastening. With two elasticated loops to insert your favourite pen, this is a notebook to take with you when on the go, or indeed to jot down your thoughts while relaxing. Measures 5" x 7". $14.95 NOW £6


73360 LIP GLOSS OR


READER’S CASE by Wellspring Gifts To suit ladies or gents, the coral paisley colours are blue


predominantly in this handy travel


case to carry reading glasses or lip gloss/mascara. Approx. 5" in length and with a mirror in the lid, popper to fasten shut, this is a neat gift idea and great value. ONLY £6


73786 MASTER ENGINEER:


Robots by Paul Beck This outsize tome is sure to thrill eight-year-olds and over. Robots exert a fierce grip on the imaginations of all of us, and


children in particular. The complexities involved in making a robot that could move - let alone think and learn - like a human are much, much greater than was imagined, but now, finally, the mechanicals, electricals and software needed to create such a machine are with us, and the first androids that can walk, talk or even play music like us are here. Slowly robot fact is catching up with robot fiction, and this big, bright and eye- catching book shows some of the most advanced androids around today, how they work, what they can do and how they may be developed - one day they could be our helpers, rescuers, helpers, even our friends. And what more could any inquisitive child want? How about a 3’2" robot of their own! At the back are full instructions and 19 heavyweight card pieces that build into a rather fetching blue and silver robot, which is a scale model of an actual robot, the 4’10" Mahru from South Korea. 40 pages, 12"×11¼”. $18.95 NOW £9


73552 FAVOURITE


SHERLOCK HOLMES STORIES by Arthur Conan Doyle In 1927, Strand magazine challenged its readers to guess which of his Sherlock Holmes stories Arthur Conan Doyle rated as his very best. Mr R. T. Newman of Wellingborough won £100 for guessing 10 of the 12 stories correctly. Later Doyle revealed his choice, and in his own


inimitable fashion explained his reasoning in an article for the magazine. The stories included such classics of the detective genre as The Speckled Band, The Final Problem and The Dancing Men. Now his favourite 12 are published together for the first time along with his original Strand article. Others include Red-Headed League, A Scandal in Bohemia, The Five Orange Pips, The Devil’s Foot, The Musgrave Ritual and The Reigate Squires. 332pp in paperback. £7.99 NOW £5


73152 UNCOMMON APPEAL OF CLOUDS: An Isabel Dalhousie Novel


by Alexander McCall Smith A masterpiece painting has been stolen from the collection of Duncan Munrowe, an old-fashioned philanthropist and a very wealthy man. As a philosopher, mother, employer and editor of the Review of Applied Ethics, Isabel feels it is


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