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  • The Gentle Art of Cookery

    A Recipe for Collectors; or The Gentle Art of Cookery

    Trends and fads come and go in the world of book-collecting, just as anywhere else. Authors, subjects and eras rise and fall in price like stocks and shares, but one subject remains legendarily popular – cookery.  This beautiful book is…

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  • The Art of Kissing

    Love, The Books: The Art of Kissing

    Is this a serious study of how artists have depicted the kiss over the centuries? No, it’s a saucy ‘how-to’ about snogging, from long before the internet explained it all with a few billion diverting tutorials. Book collecting embraces all…

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  • Cocktails - How to Mix Them

    A Cocktail For Collectors; or The Right Mix.

    February! Time to get stuck in again…I started the first version of ‘A New Look At Old Books’ in January 2009 with this very tome. Eight years on I fancy another round so here it is again, still cool ‘n’…

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