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Fashion Accessories Author: John Peacock
ISBN: 9780500019979 A companion volume to John Peacock's 20th Century Fashion and Men's Fashion, Fashion Accessories is the most comprehensive record ever published of fashion accessories throughout the twentieth century. More than 2000 full-color drawings -- the result of extensive research into paintings, photographs, and the accessorie ... |
RRP: $55.95 Our Price: $50.36 
Delivery: 15 Days Type: Hardback Book |
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Verdura Author: Patricia Corbett
ISBN: 9780500510827 Few jewelry designers of the 20th century had the flair and creativity of Fulco di Verdura (full name Fulco Santostefano della Cerda, Duke of Verdura). His fascinating career took him from Paris to Los Angeles and eventually New York, where he was patronized by the rich and famous, who found his flamboyant neo-Baroque ... |
RRP: $49.95 Our Price: $44.96
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War Posters Author: James Aulich
ISBN: 9780500251416 A wide selection of the most eye-catching and iconic examples from the Imperial War Museum's internationally renowned poster collection. Published to accompany an exhibition at London's Imperial War Museum, this book features more than 250 superb full-color illustrations of hard-hitting propaganda and groundbreakin ... |
RRP: $59.95 Our Price: $53.96
Delivery: 7-10 Days Type: Hardback Book |
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The Power of Gold Author: Peter L. Bernstein
ISBN: 9780471003786 In this exciting new book, Peter L. Bernstein, who chronicled the evolution of risk in his recent bestseller, Against the Gods, tells the story of history's most coveted, celebrated, and inglorious asset: gold. From the ancient fascinations of Moses and Midas through the modern convulsions caused by the gold standard a ... |
RRP: $27.95 Our Price: $25.16
Delivery: 7-10 Days Type: Paperback Book |
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The Connoisseur's Book of Japanese Swords Author: Kokan Nagayama
ISBN: 9784770020710 Recently Japanese swords have gained enormous popularity as art objects with collectors and enthusiasts around the world, but until now much of the most detailed information on the subject has been availability only in Japanese. This comprehensive guide to the appreciation and appraisal of the blades of Japanese swords ... |
RRP: $119.95 Our Price: $107.96
Delivery: 15 Days Type: Hardback Book |
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Miniature Books Author: Anne C. Bromer & Julian I. Edison
ISBN: 9780810992993 Miniature books, most of which are less than three inches (76.2mm) tall and some almost too small to see, have delighted readers for centuries. Popular because they were easily carried or concealed, these historic books range from tiny thumb bibles to illustrated nursery rhymes. They can be traced back to the thirteent ... |
RRP: $59.95 Our Price: $53.96
Delivery: 7-10 Days Type: Hardback Book |
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The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: The Eighties v. 2 Author: Martin Popoff
ISBN: 9781894959315 Features reviews and recollections of several rarities and monster catalogues from '80s bands. This work re-evaluates the classics and adds some trivia titbits. It also includes a CD of "Eighties Rarities." |
RRP: $75.00 Our Price: $67.50
Delivery: 7-10 Days Type: Paperback Book |
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The Disney Treasures Author: Robert Tieman
ISBN: 9780786853908 Selected from the vast archives of the Walt Disney Company, this historic collection includes handwritten letters and notes of Walt's, rare character sketches from the 1930's and 1940's, replicas of Disneyland's opening-day tickets, photos, movie theater programs, comic strips, greeting cards, commissary menus, and oth ... |
RRP: $75.00 Our Price: $67.50
Delivery: 7-10 Days Type: Hardback Book |
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Ikora and Myra Glass by WMF Author: Carlo Burshell & Heinz Scheiffele
ISBN: 9783897901896 With contemporary advertising and sales catalogues as its sources, this book represents the first exhaustive survey of the Ikora and Myra lines in glass produced between the 1920s and 1950s by the Wurttembergische Metallwarenfabrik AG (WMF) at Geislingen/ Steige. At the instigation of the then WMF director general, Hug ... |
RRP: $95.95 Our Price: $86.36
Delivery: 15 Days Type: Hardback Book |
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Picturing Architecture Author: Desley Luscombe & Anne Peden
ISBN: 9789768097200 This text explains graphic techniques used in the production of Australian architecture. The main aim of the book is to consider graphic media not simply as a means of production in architectural practice, but more significantly as a vehicle for the transfer of information. |
RRP: $14.95 Our Price: $13.46
Delivery: 7-10 Days Type: Hardback Book |
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Under the Tree Author: Susan Waggoner
ISBN: 9781584796411 When? Can't I open just one? Please? The minutes, the hours, the eons of waiting - and wondering. What's underneath the shiny silver paper? Behind the enormous red bow? Under the tree?Who doesn't remember what it was like to be a kid at Christmas? And who hasn't yearned to go back in time to recapture that special feel ... |
RRP: $19.95 Our Price: $17.96
Delivery: 7-10 Days Type: Hardback Book |
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500 Brooches Author: Marthe Le Van
ISBN: 9781579906122 Never before has such an extensive and beautiful collection of brooches been assembled, or photographed to such perfection. Marjorie Simon, a distinguished presence in the jewelry field, chose the pieces, and every one features the fine craftsmanship of a top contemporary jeweler. The breathtaking and provocative style ... |
RRP: $39.99 Our Price: $35.99
Delivery: 7-10 Days Type: Paperback Book |
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Faberge's Eggs Author: Toby Faber
ISBN: 9781405053884 This is the story of Faberge's Imperial Easter eggs - of their maker, of the tsars who commissioned them, of the middlemen who sold them and of the collectors who fell in love with them. It's a story of meticulous craftsmanship and unimaginable wealth, of lucky escapes and mysterious disappearances, and ultimately of g ... |
RRP: $55.00 Our Price: $49.50
Delivery: 7-10 Days Type: Hardback Book |
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Cartier Collection Author: Eric Nussbaum & Francois Chaille
ISBN: 9782080304612 Cartier is a name synonymous with fine jewelry. Since the 1970s, the house of Cartier has been collecting the great pieces produced in its workshops, constituting the largest collection of its kind in the world. Housed today in Geneva, the Cartier collection comprises more than 1200 pieces, dating from the 1860s to the ... |
RRP: $750.00 Our Price: $675.00
Delivery: 10-15 Days Type: Hardback Book |
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Anzac Elite Author: Cliff Lord & Julian Tennant
ISBN: 9780908876105 This illustrated reference book covers badges and insignia worn by elite troops of Australia and New Zealand, past and present. It also includes brief histories of all the units mentioned, from the Australian SAS Regiment to the New Zealand and Long Range Desert Group. |
RRP: $25.00 Our Price: $22.50
Delivery: 7-10 Days Type: Hardback Book |
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Arts and Crafts Furniture Author: Kevin P. Rodel & Jonathan Binzen
ISBN: 9781561583591 Arts and Crafts is more than a style of architecture. It is an enduring furniture style that honors the tradition of fine craftsmanship and attention to detail. This book takes a fresh look at the history and influences that resulted in beautiful, functional pieces designed to enhance the interiors of classic Arts & Cr ... |
RRP: $69.99 Our Price: $62.99
Delivery: 7-10 Days Type: Hardback Book |
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Beadwork Author: Pamela Clabburn
ISBN: 9780747804819 Beadwork developed as a decorative craft in Europe in the middle ages. It was first used to enhance embroidery but in the seventeenth century, complete objects were made from beads, and soon every girl was expected to include it among her accomplishments. There was a decline in the popularity of beadwork during the eig ... |
RRP: $9.99 Our Price: $8.99
Delivery: 10-15 Days Type: Paperback Book |
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Book Collecting Author: John Chidley
ISBN: 9780747803874 There are few pastimes as fascinating, enjoy able and rewarding for the enthusiast of modest means as col lecting books. A concise history of printing is followed by a list of suggested subjects for the collector with limited funds. It explains painly the often obscure terminology used in describing books, elucidating ... |
RRP: $19.99 Our Price: $17.99
Delivery: 7-10 Days Type: Paperback Book |
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Buttonhooks and Shoehorns Author: Sue Brandon
ISBN: 9780852636961 The everyday need for a buttonhook began in the early nineteenth century when it was used, as an accessory to masculine fashion, to fasten stiff leather button-boots. By the 1880s, lines of buttons had become fashionable on ladies' gloves, clothing and footwear, and the development of the feminine market encouraged the ... |
RRP: $9.99 Our Price: $8.99
Delivery: 10-15 Days Type: Paperback Book |
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Christmas Merrymaking Author: Barbara Hallman Kissinger
ISBN: 9781589804821 The stories of Christmas are told through vintage postcards featuring Santa Claus, St. Nicholas, and Father Christmas. More than 150 colorful illustrations grace the pages of this book, recounting the celebrated holiday from traditional festivities in England to the influence Germans had on the holiday in a young Ameri ... |
RRP: $38.95 Our Price: $35.06
Delivery: 7-10 Days Type: Hardback Book |
