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Independently Published Hemi: : The Legendary Engine
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Running Press,U.S. What We Keep
Book SynopsisWith contributions from Cheryl Strayed, Mark Cuban, Ta-Nahesi Coates, Melinda Gates, Joss Whedon, James Patterson, and many more -- this fascinating collection gives us a peek into 150 personal treasures and the secret histories behind them. All of us have that one object that holds deep meaning--something that speaks to our past, that carries a remarkable story. Bestselling author Bill Shapiro collected this sweeping range of stories--he talked to everyone from renowned writers to Shark Tank hosts, from blackjack dealers to teachers, truckers, and nuns, even a reformed counterfeiter--to reveal the often hidden, always surprising lives of objects.
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Schiffer Publishing Ltd The Collectors Guide to Vintage Cigarette Packs
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Schiffer Publishing Ltd Uniforms and Equipment of U.S Army Infantry LRRPs
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Schiffer Publishing Ltd Collecting PokÃmon
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Schiffer Publishing Ltd Corgi Toys Schiffer Book for Collectors S
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Schiffer Publishing Ltd Wristwatches
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Schiffer Publishing Ltd Champagne Collectibles
Book SynopsisWell-known corkscrew collectors and authors, Don Bull and Joe Paradi, uncork the excitement flowing from an array of champagne memorabilia. This detailed book has more than 1260 photographs depicting over 1800 items from around the world, and offers a thorough review of champagne memories and tools. This guide covers branded memories including early corks, decanter labels, beautiful fans, sheet music, smoking accessories, and more. There is also a section with a wide range of tools used for opening and preserving champagne. You will be fascinated by the knives, corkscrews, easers, nippers and grippers, and bottle re-sealers that champagne houses have used for advertising purposes. In particular, the chapters on taps will open a whole new world for collectors of corkscrews. In addition, there is a special chapter on Champagne Mercier, which tells the story of a giant champagne vat from the nineteenth century and highlights various collectibles from this company. Collectors, connoisseurs
£65.69
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Doll Junk
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Forgotten Books Stained Glass Work
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Forgotten Books Greenwich Park Its History and Associations With 31 Illustrations From Drawings Photographs and Old Engravings Classic Reprint
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Forgotten Books The neid of Virgil Books VIIXII Classic Reprint
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Rowman & Littlefield Gold Wine: Rebula, the Liquid Gold That Links
Book SynopsisThis richly illustrated book introduces readers to “the golden one,” as Rebula has been lovingly described. Rebula grapes, an ancient varietal once prized by princes and popes, are indigenous to the region that now straddles the border between Italy and Slovenia. On the Italian side the area is called Collio, in Slovenia Goriška Brda. It has been rated by experts as among the top five wine terroirs on the planet, shoulder to shoulder with Bordeaux and Tuscany. Wine experts agree, calling Rebula “a dream wine of a new age.” Rebula was rated the World’s Best Wine in 2010 by sommelier Luca Gardini, and a Rebula has received an astounding 100 points on Wine Spectator’s 100-point scale. Beautifully designed with full-color photographs, the book recounts the fascinating story of Rebula and the history of wine in what was once Yugoslavia and is now Slovenia. The protagonist is a remarkable vintner, Zvonimir Simčič, one of the founders of what was Yugoslavia's most important winery before the country fragmented. Almost single-handedly responsible for the preservation of Rebula, he resurrected the forgotten varietal and transformed his home region, spectacular Goriška Brda, from a poverty-stricken area into one of the globe’s great wine destinations.Pulitzer finalist Noah Charney provides a personal, humorous, deeply engaged travelogue through the little-known world of Slovenian wine that will delight adventurous travelers and wine lovers everywhere.Trade Review"Rebula is a secret treasure of the Central European wine scene: a taste of Habsburg glory we can still enjoy today. Noah Charney traces its history in Slovenia's Brda hills with particular emphasis on its human stories. Were it not for three recent generations, all would have been lost. Charney has talked to the key figures; he tells their important stories with zest and humour in this valuable, entertaining book." -- Andrew Jefford, writer at Decanter and World of Fine Wine“In this love letter to his adopted country and its greatest wine, Charney combines entertaining memoir with an art historian’s eye to detail and history. Since Charney starts off as a wine novice, we get to learn along with his charming and unpretentious self about Slovenia’s 'Golden One.'” -- Robert Camuto, author of South of Somewhere: Wine, Food and the Soul of Italy
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Red Sea Press,U.S. The Manuscripts Of Timbuktu: Secrets, Myths and
Book SynopsisWhat do we really know about Timbuktu?
£27.19
CarTech Inc The Cars of Trans-Am Racing: 1966-1972
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Pitch Publishing Ltd Scotland - Glory; Tears & Souvenirs
Book SynopsisScotland - Glory, Tears & Souvenirs is an offbeat collection of memories, mementos, rants and aspirations relating to Scotland's national football team. A 'look back in hunger' on the post-war era, with emphasis on the 1970s to date. A reminder of the way football was, the way it is now and the way we'd like it to be! There's Switzerland 54, Denis Law, trading cards, match programmes, Archie Gemmill, Argentina 78, beermats, Kenny Dalglish, vinyl records, Spain 82, Ally McCoist, the Tartan Army, Italia 90, the Kirin Cup, Jimmy Hill, France 98, Panini stickers and James McFadden. Nostalgia and a warped sense of humour are what gets Scotland supporters through in a nightmare world where all our near-neighbours now get to 'go to the ball' - France 2016, at least - while we await the arrival of a Fairy Godmother and a defence that doesn't leak goals. There's no room for wallowing in self-pity, though. Read this therapeutic comfort blanket of a book, cheer at the good bits and laugh at the bad. We shall overcome...
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Pitch Publishing Ltd Scotland: Club; Country & Collectables
Book SynopsisScotland: Club, Country, Collectables continues the authors' offbeat look at the issues and idiosyncrasies associated with Scottish international football. It's a celebration of the good, the bad and the mementoes treasured by fans irrespective of results. There's a flavour of the contributions made by our clubs - the players who became legends, those who tried hard, and others who merely tried our patience. A sideways look at Scottish football culture includes opposition teams and past tournaments, statistical overviews and memories full of typical Scottish weltschmerz and schadenfreude. The Road to Euro 2020 is covered, with clues offered as to whether Scotland can qualify for our first 'finals' in over 20 years - or will we achieve the rare distinction of being a host that fails to make it to our own party? While some Scotland supporters may only have tears for souvenirs, Club, Country, Collectables has everything from match programmes and trading cards to badges and beer labels, postcards, postage stamps and replica jerseys.
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SIGNATURE BOOK REPRESENTATION Feed Sacks the Colourful History of a Fr
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Deutscher Kunstverlag Jugendstil im Quadrat
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Mondadori Electa My Friday Drives: Discovering the Letbelah Cars
Book SynopsisA beautifully designed volume devoted to the most collectible and rare concept and limited-edition cars by the best American and European manufacturers.This stunning book is a tribute to the most legendary car companies and models of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The selection features cars built between 1911 and 2018, highlighting a series of visionary designs that influenced the automotive industry. All-new photographs featuring pioneering masterpieces by Ferrari, Maserati, Rolls-Royce, Jaguar, BMW, and others trace a remarkable lineage of design. Created for the privileged few, these luxurious, custom-built machines embody speed, style, and grace.Comprehensive descriptions by noted driver and automotive writer Jethro Bovingdon are accompanied by stunning all-new photographs that illustrate and celebrate this extraordinary selection. Insights are offered through exclusive interviews with the collection's owner, Omar Alfardan, and with Ibrahim Jaidah, the architect who designed Letbelah, the private museum built to house the collection.
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The University of Chicago Press Collections of Nothing
Book SynopsisNearly everyone collects something, even those who don't think of themselves as collectors. Part memoir, part reflection on the mania of acquisition, this title takes a hard look at this habitual hoarding to see what truths it can reveal about the impulse to accumulate.Trade Review"What makes this book, bred of a midlife crisis, extraordinary is the way King weaves his autobiography into the account of his collection, deftly demonstrating that the two stories are essentially one.... His hard-won self-awareness gives his disclosures an intensity that will likely resonate with all readers, even those whose collections of nothing contain nothing at all." - New Yorker "King's extraordinary book is a memoir served up on the backs of all things he collects.... His story starts out sounding odd and singular - who is this guy? - but by the end, you recognize yourself in a lot of what he does." - Julia Keller, Chicago Tribune "Part memoir and part disquisition on the psychological impulses behind the urge to accumulate, Collections of Nothing is a wonderfully frank and engaging look at one man's detritus-fueled pathology.... King emerges by book's end a flawed but truly lovable eccentric - an 'antimonk, carefully preserving and sustaining a vital darkness, heavy with various glues, through a forbidding period of enlightenment.' May this darkness reign." - Henry Alford, New York Times Book Review"
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Cornell University Press The Hummingbird Cabinet A Rare and Curious
Book Synopsis"This book is... a romantic history of romantic collecting. It takes seriously, and by necessity shares, the tendency of romantic histories to dwell upon their own fragmentariness, on the impossibility of capturing an intact history.... It...Trade ReviewPascoe's book, highly enjoyable and also nicely produced, meditates on the subterranean connections between the collecting passions of Romantic-era collectors and those of the poets, lines from whose poems they often quoted. Pascoe is insightful and playful in her explorations of the way private collectors, in the age between that of the great Renaissance princely or aristocratic cabinets of curiosity and the largely Victorian one of museums, were both fascinated by curious or beautiful material objects and rather poignantly used them to create what Henry James called a 'visitable' and Vernon Lee a 'companionable' past. -- Elizabeth Helsinger * SEL: Studies in English Literature 1500–1900 *
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MB - Cornell University Press Balkan Smoke
Book SynopsisIn writing the life of tobacco in Bulgaria from the late Ottoman period through the years of Communist rule, Neuburger gives us much more than the cultural history of a commodity; she provides a fresh perspective on the genesis of modern Bulgaria itself.Trade ReviewBalkan Smoke places Mary Neuburger squarely at the forefront of the burgeoning field of consumption, commodities, and material culture studies about East-Central Europe.... Neuburger adeptly ties together numerous strands of culture, economics, politics, and ideas into a coherent narrative of the ever-changing and competing expressions of "Bulgaria.' * Ab Imperio *In Balkan Smoke: Tobacco and the Making of Modern Bulgaria, Neuburger masterfully demonstrates how the yellow-leafed plant has been at the core of building the historical narrative of modern day Bulgaria. More importantly, it also reveals in a particularly poignant way the complex dynamics of national consumption and global flows of goods and the ideologies they encapsulate.... Neuburger has a keen eye both for factual details and for cultural minutia, which reveals her remarkable ease and extreme, almost native-like, level of comfort and familiarity with the often hidden nuances of Bulgaria's less obvious cultural references. * Consumption Markets & Culture *Mary C. Neuburger's brilliant new book recounts the social life of tobacco in the past two centuries.... It creatively utilizes the extensive Bulgarian literature on the tobacco industry and cultural works on everyday life to produce a highly original account of the making of Bulgarian modernity.... [A] remarkably well-researched and inspiringly written work. * American Historical Review *Neuburger's work sharpens our understandings of Bulgarian economic history.... It is dense stuff, and I am terribly impressed with Neuburger’s ability to bring it all together in a coherent narrative. She has added a new thread to our understanding of the development of modern nationalism. * Slavic Review *One of the strongest contributions of Balkan Smoke is Neuburger's method. She uses tobacco and smoking as a lens through which to rethink the parameters of Bulgarianhistory. In doing so, she argues that tobacco production and consumption spurred deep transformations and brought a modern condition to Bulgaria's tobacco-growing regions.... Tobacco runs through each topic and it is evident that they are all tied to the others in both obvious and hidden ways. And this is precisely where Balkan Smoke shines. * Ab Imperio *This fascinating book explores the history of tobacco and tobacco culture in Bulgaria from the mid-19th century, when the country became partially and then fully independent from the Ottoman Empire, to the postcommunist present. Neuburger... argues convincingly that smoking and the production of tobacco products played an important—if not the key—part in Bulgaria's political, economic; and cultural modernization during this period.... Summing Up: Highly recommended. * Choice *This smart, scrupulous, and elegant volume shows just how much interpretative power and creative reach a carefully executed commodity history can have. Balkan Smoke takes up the story of tobacco in a society that, like no other, has been shaped by the plant's production, distribution, consumption, and incorporation into mass and high culture.... Balkan Smoke is a thoughtful, innovative work of history writing and, in many ways, a valuable, fresh, and highly original contribution not just to national and regional historiography but to European history and economic history more generally, and to the expanding field of commodity studies. * The Journal of Modern History *Table of ContentsIntroduction1. Coffeehouse Babble: Smoking and Sociability in the Long Nineteenth Century2. No Smoke without Fire: Tobacco and Transformation, 1878–19143. From the Orient Express to the Sofia Café: Smoke and Propriety in the Interwar Years4. The Tobacco Fortress: Asenovgrad Krepost and the Politics of Tobacco between the World Wars5. From Leaf to Ash: Jews, Germans, and Bulgarian Gold in the Second World War6. Smoke-Filled Rooms: Places to Light Up in Communist Bulgaria7. Smokes for Big Brother: Bulgartabak and Tobacco under CommunismConclusionNotes Bibliography Index
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Wayne State University Press Recollecting Collecting
Book SynopsisThis intriguing volume sheds light on the diverse world of collecting film- and media-related materials. Lucy Fischer''s introduction explores theories of collecting and representations of collecting and collections in film, while arguing that collections of film ephemera and other media-related collections are an important way in to understanding the relationship between material culture and film and media studies; she notes that the collectors have various motivations and types of collections. In the eleven chapters that follow, media studies scholars analyze a variety of fascinating collected materials, from Doris Day magazines to Godzilla action figures and LEGOs. While most contributors discuss their personal collections, some also offer valuable insight into specific collections of others. In many cases, collections that began as informal and personal have been built up, accessioned, and reorganized to create teaching and research materials which have significantly contrib
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Wayne State University Press Recollecting Collecting
Book SynopsisThis intriguing volume sheds light on the diverse world of collecting film- and media-related materials. Lucy Fischer''s introduction explores theories of collecting and representations of collecting and collections in film, while arguing that collections of film ephemera and other media-related collections are an important way in to understanding the relationship between material culture and film and media studies; she notes that the collectors have various motivations and types of collections. In the eleven chapters that follow, media studies scholars analyze a variety of fascinating collected materials, from Doris Day magazines to Godzilla action figures and LEGOs. While most contributors discuss their personal collections, some also offer valuable insight into specific collections of others. In many cases, collections that began as informal and personal have been built up, accessioned, and reorganized to create teaching and research materials which have significantly contrib
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Asian Art Museum of San Francisco Printers Eye Ukiyoe from the Grabhorn Collection
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Artisan Ideas Locks and Keys Throughout the Ages
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University of Texas Press Before Writing Vol. I
Book SynopsisA fascinating book on the origins of writing.Trade Review...possibly the single most important contribution published in recent years concerned with the antecedents to writing. * Libraries and Culture *Schmandt-Besserat’s discovery and its ramifications . . . are crucial to understanding the development of civilization.... This is a thought-provoking book, beautifully produced, and what it tells us is of great importance. * Times Literary Supplement *What shines here is the human mind, spinning a tight web of inference from abundant evidence. * Scientific American *
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University of Pennsylvania Press Substance and Symbol in Chinese Toggles: Chinese
Book SynopsisA catalogue of Chinese belt toggles in the Bieber collection.
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Grolier Club of New York Evermore – The Persistence of Poe: The Edgar
Book SynopsisA complete catalog of Susan Jaffe Tane's Edgar Allan Poe Collection, considered to be the finest in private hands, Evermore encompasses over 400 rare, original items, as well as secondary materials. It offers an in-depth look at Poe's life, his world, and his influence into the present day, through original manuscripts and letters by Poe, daguerreotypes, artifacts, first edition books, and unique material related to Poe's family and friends, some of which are recent discoveries. Included in the collection, which was exhibited at the Grolier Club in 2014, are a number of items that show Poe's influence on American and world culture after his death, including artwork, comic books, movie posters, sound recordings, and toys.
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Getty Trust Publications Ancient Nubian Art
Book SynopsisLushly illustrated with stunning artifacts, this volume is the first comprehensive and accessible publication to explore the art, architecture, and material culture of ancient Nubia
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University of Arkansas Press Arkansas Made, Volume 2: A Survey of the
Book SynopsisArkansas Made is the culmination of the Historic Arkansas Museum's exhaustive investigations into the history of the state's material culture past. Decades of meticulous research have resulted in this exciting two-volume set portraying the work of a multitude of artisan cabinetmakers, silversmiths, potters, fine artists, quilters, and more working in communities all over the sate.The work of these artisan groups documented and collected here has been the driving force of the Historic Arkansas Museum's mission to collect and preserve Arkansas's creative legacy and rich artistic traditions. Arkansas Made demonstrates that Arkansas artists, artisans, and their works not only existed, but are worthy of study, admiration, and reflection.
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University of Pennsylvania Press Americana Insights 2023
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