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Prestel Stationery Fever: From Paper Clips to Pencils and
Book SynopsisThis beautifully designed book shows how the seemingly mundane objects that populate desks and cubicles everywhere are now being re-imagined as collector's items. And as today's trendsetting artists and designers are increasingly returning to non-digital techniques and methods, letterpress stationery, typewriters, and ink pens have developed the cache of vintage fashion and cars. Stationery Fever showcases the plethora of retro and fine office goods being produced and sold around the world. Organized like your favourite stationery store-pencils, pens, notebooks, erasers, greeting cards, school supplies, etc.- it features exquisitely photographed objects that transcend the decades since laptops took over most of our office needs. Each chapter highlights distinct objects and features a store that specialises in that category. Along the way, readers will learn the history of the lined notebook, the proper way to sharpen a pencil, and the story of how postcards came to be. Whether you're stuffing a college backpack or decorating your home office, this book will appeal to lovers of lo-fi and bespoke objects alike.Trade Review"Stationery Fever, by John Z. Komurki, is a guide to the ever-changing universe of stationery for both the curious beginner and the confirmed fanatic." -Bristol Herald Courier
£21.24
Alpha Edition A catalogue of the Arabic, Persian and
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£16.85
Independently Published Livre de coloriage les fruits et légumes pour les
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£7.82
Independently Published Coupé - Uma História
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£18.72
Schiffer Publishing Ltd The Pinball Compendium
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£46.74
Schiffer Publishing Ltd The Pinball Compendium 1970 1981
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£46.74
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Classic Miniature Vehicles Northern Europe
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£23.79
Schiffer Publishing Ltd The Pinball Compendium 1930s1960s
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£39.09
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
£16.14
Schiffer Publishing Ltd United States Navy Patches Series
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£25.19
Schiffer Publishing Ltd American Jewelry Manufacturers
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£51.19
Rizzoli International Publications American Weathervanes The Art of the Winds
Book SynopsisAmerican Weathervanes: The Art of the Winds, published to coincide with an exhibition at the American Folk Art Museum, reveals the beauty, historical significance, and technical virtuosity of American vanes fashioned between the late seventeenth and early twentieth centuries.This American art form has long been an enduring part of the country's skylines. Early church steeples were graced with weathercocks, following a European tradition that dates to the MiddleAges. America's first documented vane maker, metalsmith Shem Drowne of Boston, crafted a number of surviving vanes, including the iconic golden grasshopper that has topped the city's Faneuil Hall since 1742. Farmers, blacksmiths, and other craftsmen proudly fashioned roosters, cows, horses, and other forms for country barns, and as the tradition and public demand expanded over the course of the nineteenth century, so did the diversity of forms, which grew to fill the mail order catalogs of commercial manufacTrade Review“American Weathervanes: The Art of the Winds is visually engaging, combining much new photography of the best American vanes with an arresting assortment of archival material, some of it recently uncovered and published for the first time. Expanded biographical profiles of the commercial makers who flourished in Boston and New York before and after the Civil War form the meaty heart of the study, which Shaw enlivens with fresh narrative detail.” —ANTIQUES & ARTS WEEKLY“American Weathervanes: The Art of the Winds, published to coincide with an exhibition at the American Folk Art Museum, reveals the beauty, historical significance, and technical virtuosity of American vanes fashioned between the late 17th and early 20th centuries. Today, weathervanes hold a well-established place in the canon of American folk art, and American Weathervanes celebrates this artistry in the most up-to-date and authoritative work on the subject. Lavishly illustrated with masterworks from prominent private and public collections, this is a book to be treasured by anyone who collects or simply admires American vernacular art and sculpture.” ANTIQUES & AUCTION NEWS“Robert Shaw’s long-awaited American Weathervanes: The Art of the Winds is a book much needed. With color photographs of the finest weathervanes in public and private collections, this well-documented story of the invention, manufacture, and collecting of weathervanes recognizes them as art, a special category of American sculpture.” —MAINE ANTIQUES DIGEST"Vane Endeavors: ANY SELF-RESPECTING FARMER can raise a wet finger to find out how the wind is blowing. Though weathervanes have been around for millennia, they have always been more decorative than practical, writes Robert Shaw in the new book American Weathervanes: The Art of the Winds (Rizzoli Electa), published to accompany an exhibition opening in June at the American Folk Art Museum in New York. The book surveys four centuries of vanes by American craftsmen, in the shape of dragons, eagles, angels, champion racehorses, foxes, witches, snakes and cows." —WALL STREET JOURNAL"The best exhibition I’ve seen in New York this summer is American Weathervanes: The Art of the Winds at the American Folk Art Museum. It’s easily the most enchanting display I’ve seen in a while… I can’t praise the book’s usefulness and beauty enough and want to add that the exhibition we see follows the scholarly catalogue in organization.” —NATIONAL REVIEW
£54.00
Idea & Design Works The Art of Pulp Fiction: An Illustrated History
Book SynopsisJudge these books by their covers! Get immersed in the definitive visual history of pulp fiction paperbacks from 1940 to 1970.The Art of Pulp Fiction: An Illustrated History of Vintage Paperbacks chronicles the history of pocket-sized paperbound books designed for mass-market consumption, specifically concentrating on the period from 1940 to 1970. These three decades saw paperbacks eclipse cheap pulp magazines and expensive clothbound books as the most popular delivery vehicle for escapist fiction. To catch the eyes of potential buyers they were adorned with covers that were invariably vibrant, frequently garish, and occasionally lurid. Today the early paperbacks--like the earlier pulps, inexpensively produced and considered disposable by casual readers--are treasured collector''s items.Award-winning editor Ed Hulse (The Art of the Pulps and The Blood ''n'' Thunder Guide to Pulp Fiction) comprehensively covers the pulp-fiction paperback''s heyday. Hulse writes the individual chapter introductions and the captions, while a team of genre specialists and art aficionados contribute the special features included in each chapter. These focus on particularly important authors, artists, publishers, and sub-genres. Illustrated with more than 500 memorable covers and original cover paintings. Hulse''s extensive captions, meanwhile, offer a running commentary on this significant genre, and also contain many obscure but entertaining factoids. Images used in The Art of Pulp Fiction have been sourced from the largest American paperback collections in private hands, and have been curated with rarity in mind, as well as graphic appeal. Consequently, many covers are reproduced here for the first time since the books were first issued.With an overall Introduction by Richard A. Lupoff, novelist, essayist, pop-culture historian, and author of The Great American Paperback (2001).
£33.75
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Grand Tour
Book SynopsisAn introduction to the raucous yet educational ‘gap year’ tours of Europe taken by wealthy British aristocrats in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. For many young eighteenth-century aristocrats, the Grand Tour was an essential rite of passage. Spending many months travelling established routes through France and Italy, they would visit the great cultural sites of western Europe – from Paris, through to Venice, Florence and Rome – ostensibly absorbing art, architecture and culture. Yet all too often, it was a gateway to gambling and debauchery. In this beautifully illustrated guide, Mike Rendell shows how the tour reached its zenith, examining the young tourists’ activities and how they acquired ‘polish’ and an appreciation for fashion, opera and classical antiquity. He also explores their passion for souvenirs and art collecting, and how these items made their way back to grand country houses, which were themselves often modelled to the rules of classical European architecture.Table of ContentsIntroduction Along the Way From the Great Collectors … … To the Souvenir Hunters Artists and Patronage The English Country House Women on Tour Drawbacks and Downsides Further Reading Places to Visit Index
£999.99
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Timeless Halloween Collectibles
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£23.79
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Got A Drop Of Oil Book 2
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£17.09
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Pinball Memories
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£46.74
Schiffer Publishing Ltd German Helmets of the Second World War
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£62.04
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Dollhouse and Furniture Advertising
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£23.79
Schiffer Publishing Ltd The Ultimate
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£33.29
Hyperion Maps of the Disney Parks
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£32.29
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Creative Glass
Book SynopsisExplore the glass creations of 108 artisans, ranging from established talents to those who are up-and-coming in this dynamic field. Their work represents the many techniques employed by today's glass artists, including glass blowing, casting, fusion, etching, layering, copper foil, enamel, paint, and flamework along with stained glass and mosaic composition. More than 550 art objects are shown in full color, spanning the scale from intricate jewelry pieces to architectural installations. The text reveals each artist's individual journey into creativity and the vision that lies behind his or her work.
£33.29
Schiffer Publishing Ltd INTERNATIONAL COLLECTORS BOOK OF CIGARET Schiffer
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£23.79
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Alfa Romeo A Century of Innovation
Book SynopsisA celebration of the century-long history of one of the most famous and renowned carmakers, Alfa Romeo.
£23.79
Schiffer Publishing Ltd VW Beetle Toys Schiffer Book for Collectors with
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£23.79
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Plastic Novelties and Toys of the 40s 50s and 60s
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£23.79
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Handbags
Book SynopsisPresents diverse examples by the hundreds, from pouches worn in the Dark Ages and early chatelaines and pockets of the Middle Ages to contemporary handbags. The trail follows the handbag's evolution as it has related to fashion and influenced by history. For the collector current prices are provided with each item pictured.
£25.19
Schiffer Publishing Ltd ANRI WOODCARVINGS Bottle Stoppers Corkscrews
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£51.19
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Canes Walking Sticks
Book SynopsisThoroughly illustrated in color, the guide serves as both a coffee- table pictorial and a collector's reference on the history, evolution, etiquette, and care of the walking implement. Captions include the values of all the pictured walking sticks, which come from a who's who of collectors and sellers.
£54.39
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Figural Whiskey Bottles
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£23.79
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Rock Posters of Jim Phillips
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£23.79
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Antique Vienna Bronzes
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£58.39
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Antique Medical Instruments
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£13.29
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Vintage Trailer Voyeur
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£28.79
Schiffer Publishing Ltd The Handbook of Vintage Cigarette Lighters
Book SynopsisThis convenient handheld guide introduces a history of lighters dating from the late 1800s through the 1980s.
£19.54
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Bone Ivory and Horn
Book SynopsisIn the pre-plastic era everything was made from natural materials, often by skilled craftsmen. The materials that they used are now often rare and easily misidentified. Are they made from bone, ivory, horn, tortoiseshell shell, skin or scales, or some other now forgotten exotic material? This technical book will help collectors, antique dealers, museum conservationists, and frequenters of flea markets to know more about the vast array of those artifacts, their biology, rarity, value, and how to conserve and restore them. Included in this comprehensive guide are hundreds of images of actual collectibles ranging from knives to buttons.
£36.89
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Hawaiian Shirt Designs
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£33.29
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Halloween in America
Book SynopsisNext to Christmas, more money is spent on Halloween decorations and novelties than on any other holiday. This wonderful book has been credited with inspiring the Halloween collecting craze, giving its devotees a chance to celebrate the holiday all year round! In addition to color photography and a brand new price guide, there are also many fascinating insights into Halloween. Most people are familiar with the symbolsghosts, Jack-O''-Lanterns, witches, bats, skeletons, and black catsbut few know about Halloween''s past. Why does it exist? What is the origin of trick-or-treating? Why does it fall on October 31st? Through these pages you will experience Halloween celebrations of the past and take a look at Halloween today. For collectors, this is one of the largest collections of Halloween memorabilia.
£25.19
Outre Gallery Press Outre Journal
Book SynopsisA compendium of unique art.
£13.05
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Toasters
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£23.79
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Collecting Star Wars Toys
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£25.19
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Transistor Radios
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£19.94
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Theater Made Military Knives of World War II
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£47.96
Kodansha America, Inc The Connoisseurs Book Of Japanese Swords
Book SynopsisThis comprehensive guide to the appreciation and appraisal of the blades of Japanese swords still offers an English translation of a definitive Japanese text on the subject. Taking the practical historical approach, it discusses each tradition, examining the features that distinguish specific schools and smith. Each section closes with an easy reference chart summering the distinctive features of the work of various schools and smiths. There are chapters on terminology and description, and the care and appraisal of blades. Richly illustrated throughout.
£56.25
Jonglez After the Final Curtain: The Fall of the American
Book SynopsisThere's nothing remarkable about a movie theater today, but that wasn t always the case. When the great American movie palaces opened in the early 20th century, they were some of the most lavish, stunning buildings anyone had ever seen. With the advent of television, theater companies found it harder and harder to keep them open. Some were demolished, some were converted, and some remain derelict to this day. "After the Final Curtain: The Fall of the American Movie Theatre" will take you through 24 of these magnificent buildings showing what beauty remains years after the last ticket was sold."
£23.99
Schiffer Publishing Ltd The Cream of Strawberry Shortcakeâ Collectibles
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£15.19
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Camouflage Uniforms of the Soviet Union and
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£36.89
