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Is there anything nicer than a paper card price label? Especially one so directly associated with buying textiles. And...
Is there anything nicer than a paper card price label? Especially one so directly associated with buying textiles. And...
Shelf Appeal tries not to collect children’s books. For where would that end? Buckling shelves and a collecting headache,...
This is just the sort of back book cover Shelf Appeal likes. Because as an amateur part time ephemeral-detail...
The number 2 bus in Stockholm took me to the door of the Transport Museum there. At the back of...
What a glowing edition of the Jaeger Staff News magazine from Christmas 1953. The Rene Gruau cover illustration imbues such...
Shop windows aren’t what they used to be. Christmas is the season. But apart from Selfridges and Harvey Nichols (for...
Envelopes are rather satisfying things. In amongst the paper bits and pieces that Shelf Appeal has tucked away is this...
Shelf Appeal is very fond of Barbara Jones’ illustrations. And very fond indeed of the shop that was Simpson Piccadilly...
Today I get to go to my own book launch. Not something I ever thought I would be doing. I...
Dryad Press books are very often lovely. They appeal to the craft side of my brain. They make me want...
Shelf Appeal can deny no longer the presence of at least one collection on the shelves. Of small books, booklets...
The 1951 Festival of Britain is of consistent interest here at Shelf Appeal. The exhibition was a fleeting sight in...