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73432 MY FAVOURITE FAIRY TALES retold and


illustrated by Tony Ross Guaranteed to enchant adults and children alike, this collection of seven easy-to-read fairy tales is delightfully and humorously illustrated and retold in a way that will appeal to modern youngsters.


Some of the tales, such as Beauty, who fell in love with a hideous Beast because she found out what a lovely character he had, and the wicked Rumpelstiltskin, who stole the queen’s baby, promising to give it back if she guessed his name, will be well-known to readers. Others - like Hedley Kow the fairy trickster, and Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess, may be less familiar but are just as captivating. 93 pages 29cm x 25cm.


£12.99 NOW £5.50


73448 MY FAVOURITE NURSERY RHYMES selected and illustrated by Tony Ross


A lovely book with large size type and certain words in great big capitals so that the child can begin to recognize and point to them. The glossy pages are filled with humorous paintings and a choice of nearly 50 of the most-loved rhymes. Old Mother Hubbard who had no idea what to do, Three Little Kittens (who lost their mittens) the unfortunate Humpty Dumpty, naughty Tom the Piper’s Son, lazy Little Boy Blue, the skinny Jack Sprat and many more. 91 enchanting pages 29cm x 25cm with index of first lines and witty Tony Ross illustrations in tasteful colour. £12.99 NOW £5.50


73449 MY FIRST NURSERY STORIES retold and illustrated by Tony Ross Here are the cunning Three Billy Goats Gruff, The Enormous Turnip - which was so difficult to pull out of the ground - the rather silly Henny-Penny and her friends Cocky-Locky, Ducky-Daddles, Goosey-Poosey and Turkey-Lurkey who met the wicked Foxy-Woxy, the running Gingerbread Man, the accident prone Three Little Pigs, disobedient Little Red Riding-Hood, thieving Goldilocks and lucky Jack and the Beanstalk retold in an engrossing modern idiom. 92 pages 29cm x 25cm in super colour.


£12.99 NOW £5.50


74116 RHYMES, STORIES AND FAIRY TALES: Set of Three


selected, retold and illustrated by Tony Ross Buy all three and save even more. £38.97 NOW £14


73487 WILFRED TO THE RESCUE by Alan MacDonald


Brambly Hedge is on the other side of the stream, across the field, half-hidden under tangled roots and tall grasses. This is the world of the little mice, Wilfred and Primrose and their family. Always ready to share adventures, like the time when the stream at Brambly Hedge burst its banks... Illustrated in watercolour, with very large print for children aged 3. 32 very large pages, softback. £5.99 NOW £3


74193 MASTERS: Earthenware


by Matthias Ostermann Discover the outstanding artistry of 38 noted international ceramicists who work in earthenware to create vibrant functional, sculptural and


figurative pieces. From highly decorative to relatively unadorned objects, each artist’s best achievements are presented on eight consecutive pages of spectacular colour photos plus their own commentary about their inspirations and processes. Paul Day makes the familiar strange in his epic relief with images of human hives teeming with activity. Here are nuances of colour and tone integral to Holly Walker’s jars, trays and cups and Stephen Bowers employs sponging, rag rolling, stencilling and airbrushing in his compositions breathing air into fairy-tale worlds. In the style of Clarice Cliff are teapots decorated with cherries and yellow ruffles by Wynne Wilbur. Hand built, coil built, brush glazed, s graffito, the Harlequin tureen, cake stand and fruit bowl by Gail Kendall demonstrates sturdy forms rooted in Islamic and European traditions. An astounding collection, 318pp in landscape softback, large pages. £17.99 NOW £6


72985 GEMSTONES by Cally Hall, Harry Taylor


and Dr Roger Harding There are over 3,000 different minerals, but only about 50 are commonly used as gemstones. The five major stones are diamond, star sapphire, river pearl, ruby and emerald but over 130 different gorgeous varieties from around the world are described in this book and depicted in crystal-clear photos.


Precise annotation makes identification sure and simple. 160 softback pages, 800 photos in sparkling colour, table of properties, map showing world distribution, useful addresses.


£10.99 NOW £5 73105 WATCHES by Rick Sapp


Includes 40 of the most famous watchmakers of all time - Rolex, Gucci, Longines, Hermes, Seiko, Cartier and many more. 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, close-up photos in colour. ONLY £4.50


73868 PASSION FOR MEISSEN


by Ulrich Pietsch


Early Meissen porcelain is much esteemed among collectors. Established on 6th June 1710, Meissen, with all its technical and artistic achievements and innovations, set trends in both design and decorative painting on porcelain. An upper class consisting


COLLECTABLES


Now here’s a quick laugh. Do this tomorrow. Go into an antique shop and say “What’s new?”


- Tommy Cooper 74363 CLARICE CLIFF FOR


COLLECTORS by Greg Slater The vividly colourful and highly memorable Art Deco ceramics produced by Clarice Cliff remain among the great collectables of the 20th century, with an international audience of collectors whose enthusiasm and energy increases with each year. Here, written by a collector of unparalleled experience


and featuring reproductions of pattern book illustrations and the original sales material from the Wilkinson and Newport potteries, is a concise, practical and accessible guide. The book encourages readers to create original thematic displays, and shows how themes based on colour, pattern, season or style, and the use of the ceramics around the home were at the heart of the gifted potter’s own creative vision. This volume is structured in three sections. The first offers a brief biography, as well as a guide to pattern names, numbers, back stamps and shape numbers. The second gives an overview of the great diversity of objects produced. The third is devoted to collecting, storing, displaying and, most importantly, managing a collection for, as it grows in size and value, curating, recording, insurance and restoration are issues for all collectors. In addition, there is invaluable advice on cataloguing, a pattern index, a rarity and price guide, and even a section on Clarice Cliff for Children. 240 softback pages 24.5cm x 17cm, 500 colour illustrations. £18.95 NOW £7.50


73239 SCHUCO CLASSIC TIN TOYS by Chris Knox


Mixed with illustrations from original Schuco catalogues are hundreds of delightful modern photos highlighting: cars, motorbikes, boats, airplanes, acrobatic tumbling mice, Charlie Chaplin, Donald Duck, a Scottie dog, the famous Pick-Pick bird and a whole host of other wind-up figures. There is also info for collectors on manufacturing processes, technical details, variety, availability and much more. 128 pages 23cm x 23cm in dazzling colour, websites.


$19.99 NOW £5.50


of newly rich merchants and shipping magnets and bankers built magnificently showy villas in the European greenbelt circling the great cities and it is they who had the great desire for these works of art in porcelain. The publication of the Said and Roswitha Marouf Collection focuses the viewer’s eye on the magnificent artwork on the Meissen porcelain manufactory. There are outstanding works by Johann Gregorious Höroldt and his workshop and also the small sculptural work of Johann Joachim Kaendler. 600 reproductions including numerous large close ups of 200 artworks showing Chinese figures in bold colours decorating plates, coffee and teapots, cups and saucers, chocolate cups, ladles, spoons and bowels, tureens and of course figures, some mounted on splendiferous gilded candelabras. 352 pages, 24.7 x 32.7cm. Colour. £55 NOW £28


71455 GUIDE TO FIRST EDITION PRICES: Eight Edition by R. B. Russell


Worth its weight in gold at 786 large pages, this is the completely revised and updated eight edition (2010). The volume provides a guide to the value of over 50,000 sought-after titles. Includes Jane Austen to Oscar Wilde, Eric Ambler to Minette Walters, illustrators from Aubrey Beardsley to Florence Upton and poets from Richard Alvington to Walt Whitman. Authors and artists are represented in British and American first editions, limited editions and important, collectable reprints. As featured on Radio Four’s ‘Front Row’. Lovely clear layout and great value. £19.95 NOW £7


74101 MILLER’S COSTUME JEWELLERY by Judith Miller


Highly polished, well cut, intricately worked, exquisitely designed, these hand-crafted items of jewellery have been personally selected by the expert in antiques, Judith Miller. Dazzling, covetable and often decadent, costume jewellery has brought sparkle and elegance to the world of fashion, Hollywood and celebrities for centuries. Celebrated are the major designers like Trifrai, Dior and Elsa Schiaparelli, Chanel and Butler & Wilson to classic designers who worked for houses like Givenchy, Christian Lacroix, Karl Lagerfeld, Lanvin, Yves Saint Laurent and from Ancient Egypt, medieval France, Georgian England and late 19th century America to today. Explores Art Deco jewellery, costume jewellery in Hollywood films, Bakelite and unsigned pieces, even plastic jewellery from the Great Depression. 256 page volume with colour photos and value codes for prices. Get out that jewellery box and value your own now! Slight damage to dust jackets.


£25 NOW £7.50


74339 FARNELL TEDDY BEARS by Kathy Martin


The family firm of J. K. Farnell & Co. Ltd. occupied a position of unparalleled importance in British soft toy history. It was the very first British toy company to manufacture teddy bears and also created the actual bear that inspired A. A. Milne to write the Winnie the Pooh stories. This big well illustrated book is an exhaustively researched look at all things Farnell and a first rate history not just of teddy bears, but British culture during the first half of the 20th century. With useful teddy bear timeline looking at Steiff production of the first disc-jointed teddy bear in 1905 and the American toy trade publication ‘Play Things’ coining the term ‘teddy bear’ for the first time in 1906, the cut-out- and-sew printed cloth teddy bear, mohair manufacture, Farnell’s new brick built factory occupying 23,000 square feet and the re-launch of the Alpha Bear in 1935, when the factory was hit by an incendiary bomb in 1940, screw-in safety eyes patented by Wendy Boston in 1948, Christie’s first auction dedicated to teddy bears in 1993 and illustrated with beautiful full page colour photographs, one of an extremely rare pin- jointed Farnell bear from the First World War. Notes on condition etc, 192pp, colour and b/w.


£19.99 NOW £6.50


73232 MATCHSAFES by Deborah Sampson Shinn


The need for a dry container led to the creation of matchsafes, also known as match boxes and match receivers (vesta cases in Britain), protective and decorative containers for carrying about one’s person. These soon developed into beautifully ornamented forms in the way that only the Victorians could, often worked into natural forms such as animals and plants, inlaid with jewels and incorporating precious metals as well as those that were entirely practical, robust creations which had a utilitarian beauty all of their own. 100 colour photos of the best examples of the 4,000+ matchsafes. 112pp softback, colour. £15.95 NOW £4


71905 MAGPIES, SQUIRRELS AND THIEVES How the Victorians Collected the World by Jacqueline Yallop


Travelling with people like the art connoisseur John Robinson and aristocratic scholar Charlotte Schreiber who ransacked Europe for art treasures, and the pioneering Orientalists in India and China, we enter a world of cut-throat markets, questionable dealing, forgery and looting, all part of the ultra- competitive spirit that drove them. Two other factors also had a major effect - the Empire and the involvement of women for the first time. 420pp, b/w illus. £25 NOW £4


72098 TEDDY BEARS by Judith Miller Margarete Stieff of Germany was undoubtedly making some of the earliest toy bears in the 1880s. English company J. K. Farnell was established in 1840 and is responsible for making many wonderful bears including Christopher Robin’s much-loved companion Winnie-the- Pooh. Schuco, Merrythought and other makers are covered plus limited edition bears, artist bears and museums in this showcase of 300 furry friends, the stories behind some of the famous bears and the factories that made them. 300 glossy photos, 304pp in softback. £10 NOW £4.50


72405 CRACKING ANTIQUES by Kathryn Rayward and Mark Hill An antique dining table can show off a pretty Victorian dinner service or a 1960s Le Creuset casserole and Denby stoneware. Your kitchen can house precious collections of blue and white ceramics or old-fashioned utensils. The hall or corridor is often overlooked but is crucial in setting the style of a home with paintings or displays of glass. There are useful sections on cleaning and caring for textiles, repairing a scratch on wood and renovating furniture. 224 pages, colour illus. £18.99 NOW £4


73608 COLLECTING TEDDY BEARS by Sally Taylor


Explores famous bears in fiction, such as The Three Bears, Winnie-the-Pooh, Paddington, Pudsey, Rupert and Theodore, and gives some very sound advice on how to start building up a collection of these uniquely loveable little creatures. 128 pages 31cm x 23cm in appealing colour. £7.99 NOW £3.50


73234 MILLER’S SOFT TOYS: A Collector’s Guide by Frankie Leibe


A super beginner’s guide including 150 photos in colour of collectable pieces. All of the manufacturer’s marks are noted together with fact files and tips on how to collect Steiff and post-World War Two toys. Favourites of ours are the elephants by Schuco and Farnell, the ride on camel and elephant by Steiff, the Pig Family from the 1930s on page 45, the promotional toy Belisha Beacon from 1934 which introduced road safety. Tips on care and restoration, where to see and buy. 64 page paperback. $9.99 NOW £2.50


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. 128 large pages in softback. £19.99 NOW £6.50


CRIME


The most anxious man in the prison is the governor.


- George Bernard Shaw


74215 UNSOLVED LONDON MURDERS: The 1920s and


1930s by Jonathan Oates In a companion volume to Unsolved Murders In Victorian and Edwardian London code 74216, here are 20 haunting, sometimes shocking cases including the shooting of PC James Kelly in Gunnersbury, violent deaths associated with the IRA, the stabbing of a French acrobat in


Piccadilly, the strychnine poisoning of an egg seller, the questioning of the famous architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh about the murder of Frances Buxton and perhaps the most gruesome of all, the case of the unidentified body parts found at Waterloo Station. With graphic reconstructions of unsolved London murders and showing how the murderers got away with their crimes plus an insight into London police work 70 years ago here is a portrait of the dark side of life and death in the Metropolis. Big hardback, 200pp, illus. £16.99 NOW £5


74216 UNSOLVED MURDERS IN VICTORIAN AND


EDWARDIAN LONDON by Jonathan Oates Beware if your name is Sarah! An extraordinary number of victims in this detailed compilation of murder cases have this Christian name. Unsolved crimes have a particular fascination - the horror of the crime itself, the mystery, the notion of a killer on the loose, the insight into


primitive police work, the chance to speculate about the identity of the killer after so many years have passed. For this collection there are 20 varied and intriguing cases, among them the headless body found in a bag at Waterloo Bridge, the pregnant maid who was bludgeoned to death, the shooting of the night watchman at the Café Royal, the barmaid whose corpse rode the train from Hounslow to Waterloo, the dead girl packed in a parcel, and the enigmatic case of Frances Coles, the Whitechapel prostitute who may have been Jack the Ripper’s final victim. 186pp in large softback, many illus.


£12.99 NOW £5


74283 BOOK OF WILLIAM: How Shakespeare’s First


Folio Conquered the World by Paul Collins


The book traces the history of one of the world’s most hotly pursued literary treasures, the ‘white whale’ of rare books, a cornerstone of Britain’s cultural heritage - William Shakespeare’s First Folio. For four centuries, this volume has transformed connoisseurs into


grasping, green-eyed monsters, imbued them with the lust to possess, been the Holy Grail of their dreams. In this captivating narrative, the author pursues his quest for the book that was laboriously printed in a Barbican shop, haphazardly bound, and cast for 386 years upon the currents of chance and covetousness. Since then, it has been variously: sold for shillings in the streets of London, whisked to Manhattan for millions, and stored deep within the vaults of Tokyo. 246 unusual-to-say- the-least pages. $25 NOW £6.50


73902 JUMPED, FELL, OR


PUSHED? by Steven Koehler A Reader’s Digest illustrated fact file which looks at how forensics have solved 50 ‘perfect’ murders. Today thanks to the constantly advancing field of forensic science, many of the world’s most dangerous, psychotic and cunning killers are now almost inevitably bought to justice. Here we are put


right in the middle of a crime-scene investigation and peer over the shoulders of homicide detectives, coroners, DNA examiners and other criminal specialists. The 50 case studies include Johann Curley, the rat-poison murderer, Dr Arthur Waite the death dealing doctor, Alexander Litvinenko slowly dying in a London hospital of polonium poisoning plus botched cases, the Oklahoma bomb explosion and a blundered train robbery in the USA. Looks at trace elements, DNA analysis, serology, toxicology and drugs, document identification and criminal markers from teeth to tools. 176 large pages, colour photos. ONLY £6


74376 GENTLEMEN AND BLACKGUARDS:


Gambling Mania and the Plot to Steal the Derby of 1844 by Nicholas Foulkes The Epsom Derby was the ultimate criminal’s playground but when, in 1844 it ended in chaos and one of the most sensational court cases of the time took place, it forced changes throughout society as the rule-bound Victorian age


began to take root. It is a tale of rogues and rascals, subterfuge and chicanery, duelling, suicide and murder. The plot involves the stealing of a fortune, and includes everyone from dukes to prize fighters, Corinthians to


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