The Mr and Mrs Cook Book
Last year Shelf Appeal was doing some research on interwar cookbooks and leaflets. It’s a bit of a wheeze for...
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Label it
Is there anything nicer than a paper card price label? Especially one so directly associated with buying textiles. And...
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Playtime
Shelf Appeal tries not to collect children’s books. For where would that end? Buckling shelves and a collecting headache,...
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Scientific and technical
This is just the sort of back book cover Shelf Appeal likes. Because as an amateur part time ephemeral-detail...
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Never have too many
The number 2 bus in Stockholm took me to the door of the Transport Museum there. At the back of...
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Jaeger for Christmas
What a glowing edition of the Jaeger Staff News magazine from Christmas 1953. The Rene Gruau cover illustration imbues such...
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Makes you smile
Shop windows aren’t what they used to be. Christmas is the season. But apart from Selfridges and Harvey Nichols (for...
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Enveloped
Envelopes are rather satisfying things. In amongst the paper bits and pieces that Shelf Appeal has tucked away is this...
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Simpson and Jones
Shelf Appeal is very fond of Barbara Jones’ illustrations. And very fond indeed of the shop that was Simpson Piccadilly...
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Charles and his ephemera
Today I get to go to my own book launch. Not something I ever thought I would be doing. I...
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Felt toys
Dryad Press books are very often lovely. They appeal to the craft side of my brain. They make me want...
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Small picture books
Shelf Appeal can deny no longer the presence of at least one collection on the shelves. Of small books, booklets...